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Visiting St Thomas, by Rachel Piercey

‘By St Thomas Water’ is one of my favourite Charles Causley poems – the first he wrote with children in...

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March 22, 2023

My 5 Favourite Poems I Think You Should Know About

Howdy! My name’s Caroline Bond and I am going to be writing for The Maker in the next couple of...

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March 21, 2023

Picking up the Pen: A Step-by-Step Guide on Writing Your First Short Story 

In celebration of world storytelling day (20th March), we have decided to help you novelist-newbies out by publishing an easy...

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March 20, 2023

March – the month for nature writing

Do you write in Nature? With Spring in the air, this is a lovely challenge to get creative with your...

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March 17, 2023

March Musings by Sue Wallace-Shaddad

In my Musings last month I talked about attending the Charles Causley Trust’s Winter Warmer Poetry Retreat. The Trust plans...

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March 15, 2023

Poet in Residence Rachel Piercey gives us an insight into her first week in Launceston

I have no precedent for the feeling of walking through the door of Cyprus Well. To feel that you (partly)...

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March 13, 2023

Then there were two by Mark Fiddes

The blotchy neck belongs to Father O’xxxxx.  I slip the amice over his snow raked pate.  Through the vestry windows ...

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March 2, 2023

Arcadia by Partridge Boswell

In the milk-eye of a dying ewe, unfathomable sky. Crouched in mudshit straw you cradle her neck while the young...

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March 2, 2023

Without God Everything is Permitted by Jeffrey Skinner

I remember staring at a painting above   My crib: two swans on green water.  But, to me  Shifting forms only. ...

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March 2, 2023

Chinese Diacritics of War & Peace by Vera Kate Yuen

My grandmother learnt the best way to muzzle tragedy was to speak only in her mother tongue.   Rěn nài...

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March 2, 2023

Martial Artist by Lesley Saunders

She knows how to draw blood,  though that is not her vocation.  In ju-jitsu one can break a brick  with...

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March 2, 2023

korean bleach by Elisha Gabb

  google says that if you have brown skin and you want to turn it white then you can buy...

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March 2, 2023
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