DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social
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Poet (Salt 2019, Broken Sleep 2026), fiction writer and academic at University Centre Peterborough. Lives in Norwich. Travels by train. Parents by exhaustion.
My son had been tasked with writing a poem for school, so we had sat down and written together. It is a poem against cynicism and the mess we are in. It is about love (and doughnuts in ice cream).
For Christmas I got a puzzle where I had to move a cube around until it formed a cheeky fat baby. It was a Cherubic’s Cube.
Devotional for a Hill - From 55 Devotionals (Against Erasure), Broken Sleep Books www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
Today’s fave bit of lit: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au. Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode. www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025
Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
Start a degree or university-level qualification at University Centre Peterborough this September through Clearing 2025.
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Thomas Lytch from the poem Village by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape) Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #clearing #poetry #Alevelresults
Farewell Loch Thom by WS Graham Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #poetry #books #clearing #poems
At The Parrot Sanctuary - from The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe) Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough #creativewriting #poetry #clearing
The imperious De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.
Hear me talk about why Creative Writing is for everyone and how to develop your craft on BBC Radio Cambs (starts at 14:40 after Bowie) and the free two-day course I’m running this week at University Centre Peterborough: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Pizza, chips and portal for Cthulu in Lidl.
Day one of the Fenland Literature symposium at UEA today organised by Rebecca Pinner and it was Fen female saints, kings and hermits plus how the fens are inspiring poems, novels and radio plays. Tomorrow I am presenting on the Fens as an uncanny space in literature:
First year Creative Writing student & Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough. Read about how the bursary has supported her. helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross
My first year at University
Since I started my BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough in September, it’s been a wild ride. After submitting my essay to the Malcolm Bradbury …
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First year Creative Writing student and Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough (UCP). Read about how the bursary has supported her. 👇 lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing
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Poetry relegated from the premier league:
Francesca Gardner said British poets were "very interested" in the lawn www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cambridge study suggests 'poetic obsession' with lawnmowers
Academic research suggests British poets have written about mowing the lawn for nearly 375 years.
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‘You know the rain comes down, the sun shines, grass grows. Children grow old and die. That’s the holy all of it. We know it full well, but can’t even whisper it.’ Give this haunting & elegiac film, an adaptation of a John Gahern novel, a few hours of your life: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - That They May Face the Rising Sun
That They May Face the Rising Sun is a cinematic elegy to a lost Ireland.
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Black Shuck land. (Blythburgh Church)
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
