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Reflecting on the Launch of The Drifted Stream with Sue Wallace-Shaddad

The Drifted Stream is an anthology created over the last two years as a tribute to Charles Causley, edited by...

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November 13, 2024

October Musings by Sue Wallace-Shaddad

There has been a slight hiatus in blogging over the summer but autumn brings my blog again (now once a...

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October 11, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: I have lived with mermaids by Mathias Adler

Sing to me O Muse, a real one. I wait expectantly by the bedside. Then: The sirens whisper at the...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: Within the greats by Bea Jopling

Challenging confederacy, Or questioning theocracy, Or standing to the face of their awful “democracy.”   Their leatherback notebooks cannot constrain,...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: Siren by Violet Wan

‘You could hear the sea from here. You might imagine, in the winter, it would creep up on to those...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: The Purple Beach by Mia Atkinson

a violet sky like a blanket,                             ...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: My Mother’s Spell by Bernadette Lee

Like a spell, she breathes life into me.   Seven, legs basking in the summer glow You’re in the finally...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: Redhead by Faith Lydall

I am a redhead, on the sixth turn of the globe you said I set a curse upon the world,...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: Where the Magic Lives by Macy Sheffield

Sometimes it makes me wonder Where magic goes for a wander Is it as simple as fairies in the sand?...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: The Moon by Maria Guriteanu

The Moon light shines so bright, While is putting us, safe to sleep tonight.   It’s singing a tune, While...

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September 27, 2024

Young Person’s Competition: A Song of Magic by Maya Pal

Sing me a song of magic At twilight , How the stars shine! Echoes of your dreams and mine. Broken...

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September 27, 2024

Inspired by a Cumbrian Folktale by Alex Toms

You ask me what I’ve learnt of love. Let me tell you a story in reply: Once there was a...

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September 15, 2024
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