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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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
korean bleach by Elisha Gabb
google says that if you have brown skin and you want to turn it white then you can buy...