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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Remembrance - Jeanette Abery
Do you remember when? Where? What? Why? Who? How? Do I remember what, why, when, how, where, who? Do we remember the same day, the same...
Jeanette Abery
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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Michael Collins - Remembrance
I forgot to remember Both Gough... and The War Arguably, neither achieved much in the long run... No... Not true... Sorry... Spirit of...
Michael Collins
Nov 10, 20241 min read
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Elaine Abery - Remembrance
Remembrance “I’ll send that straight to my forgettery, as my mother likes to call it.” Laughs. Everyone always laughs when I say that....
Elaine Abery
Nov 10, 20243 min read
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It is A Mess - Michael Collins
It is a mess! They say: God bless this mess... I say: it is just a mess... And a mess gets in the way of moving around the house... you...
Michael Collins
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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Jeanette Abery - It’s a Mess
'What’s the time?’ Barbara, teenage granddaughter of Hannah. ‘Bedtime’ - Jill, Barbara’s mother. ‘It’s always bed time, according...
Jeanette Abery
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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Vesna McMaster – It’s a mess
‘It’s all because of the bloody Romans.’ ‘What?’ ‘Aunt Lizbeth threatened to disinherit me.’ ‘Seriously? What did the Romans have...
Vesna McMaster
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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Carol Gano - It’s a Mess
'Again?' She honestly could not believe that their entire trip was about to be aborted. ‘I’ll take the train, drop me off here,’ he...
Carol Gano
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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Elaine Abery - It's a Mess
Time preferred for meeting: Thursday Time of meeting: Tuesday 11am That’s what the board said in the patient’s room. “Excuse me. Could we...
Elaine Abery
Oct 13, 20242 min read
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Rose Coote - It is a mess
I arrived early and found myself alone in the place I had expected, well, what had I expected? I’m not really sure but everything was new...
Rose Coote
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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Michael Collins - Grand
These feelings are... well... grand... Such an old-fashion word... To use such a word in todays 'modern' poetry... Why... the very...
Michael Collins
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Kevan Smith – Grand
Sitting at the dinner-breakfast table he would cluck and mutter whenever the story of the minute was flying about. Four grandies from 7...
Kevan Smith
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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Ricci Schwarzler - Grand
‘The evening was grand’, my Grandmother announced. ‘There were ground people here, the venue is grand and the food is grand and so are...
Ricci Schwarzler
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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Jeanette Abery – Grand
‘That’s grand’ says Jon. ‘What’s grand?’ asks Lucy. ‘It’s grand that it’s school holidays.’ – Jon ‘Why?’ – Lucy ‘’Cause I can go...
Jeanette Abery
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Carol Gano – Grand
Grand, Grand, Grand Grand piano, grand rounds, Grand prix, Lost in the grandstands Lost Forlorn For instance For sooth (as in...
Carol Gano
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Elaine Arbery - Grand
Why is a grand grand? It’s a grand night for singing. The moon is riding high... Such an old-fashioned term. It’s grand became it’s cool…...
Elaine Abery
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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David Gairdner – Ocean Blues
- Fish can’t feel depression but what is the harm in thinking they do. - Perhaps they are just undiagnosed. - Could...
David Gairdner
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Vesna McMaster – Grand
‘We don’t know anything about this girl. You can’t just go and marry her.’ ‘But Mum she’s a princess.’ ‘So she says.’ ‘Look, the...
Vesna McMaster
Sep 9, 20242 min read
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Ricci Schwarzler - Personality
She saw him standing with a dowdy looking woman. She had long brown hair, was short and overweight, in the worst clothes anyone could...
Ricci Schwarzler
Aug 12, 20242 min read
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David Gardner – Personality
What do I see in Ash? I don’t see much. I see a meat boy. Faffing around Meat puppet He is loyal. He is like my dog, the one I...
David Gairdner
Aug 12, 20242 min read
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Vesna McMaster – Personality
Penkethman’s Pest Exterminators. Peter Penkethman had built the business up from nothing. Not it was a household name. If you’re about to...
Vesna McMaster
Aug 12, 20241 min read
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