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Ignore the sardonic lyrics - I play this every year when my results are in.

Transactional Writing - 70% (pleased with this one, might have been let down slightly by the travel piece).

What is Theory? - 70% (now that pleasantly surprises me; I presume I did better on the Jane Eyre rewrite and I must've aced Brave New World).

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Just found out that 2 of my rock poems are going in the eMag at college - Milky Quartz and Blood Orange. I am not alone; I think that each class member has two submitted. Somehow, I feel a little strange about it, can't clarify why. Think it's because I had written them a long time ago, especially the migraine sonnet which didn't go to plan. Just a ( Read more... )

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I have not had word  back from my lecturer, so I am posting on various forums and checking with classmates the status quo with the word count.  Right now, I think I am going to have to bunce up certain pieces of work - basically if they want 6 pieces of work with the minimum 2,000 for the entire writing portfolio, excluding reflective commentary, ( Read more... )

Back at college and today has been a good day - peppered with coughs and sniffs, but infinitely better. Bit thin on the ground with students (including self - four narrowed down to three), but we managed. I have three assignments to think of - think I might go with a poem for TH3 (Grace Nichols - The Fat, Black Woman goes Shopping). I was going to ( Read more... )

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I had an email today from our resident poet specialist, who is the year above me on the course.  She advised me to send my Jackdaws poem to Ink Now magazine (Plymouth University). I must admit to being a bit gobsmacked as I have never really thought of myself as a poet - just someone who has to write poetry for her coursework.  I have sent it, ( Read more... )

I've started to write the children's book, alas I have found that there is already a Gulliver the Gull in existence, so I have had to change his name again.  I have story-boarded it, so at least I have the outline sussed e.g. 12 sides: Beginning (intro and what they did) + Middle (one clever child who points out the obvious) + End (sensible ( Read more... )

In a Station of the Metro
by Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
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