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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Vesna McMaster - Do Dogs Dream in Black and White?
Twitching paws and muffled woofs: are they running through grey grass, or does their world explode in technicolour during the night? It...
Vesna McMaster
Apr 282 min read
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David Gairdner - Dream
Blue Whale most large. Sing to our babies and us. We breathe with you, ahh
David Gairdner
Apr 281 min read
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David Gairdner - Notes written, half dreaming.
Vital parts of a maverick's life: Semolina, cantina, saddled by Abilena. Saddled by a stove top collage. Saddled by a syringe on a silver...
David Gairdner
Apr 281 min read
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Vesna McMaster - Raise
Due to no particular choice of my own, my carbohydrate intake has been pretty limited for the last few years. Carbohydrate is quite the...
Vesna McMaster
Apr 212 min read
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Ricci Schwarzler - Raise
You raise me up to soar with eagles. I look down and think, ‘what the hell am I doing here?’ I see a flock of crows coming towards me...
Ricci Schwarzler
Apr 211 min read
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Kevan Smith - Raise
Raise eyes to the future, the flapping, torn cloth. Lower eyes to the horror of young men being torn apart, strafed along the beach,...
Kevan Smith
Apr 211 min read
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Ricci Schwarzler - A Minute Silence
Ricci - A Minute Silence  The birds were calling, so free, nature’s law When the trenches were silent, The time was raw  Desolate and...
Ricci Schwarzler
Apr 211 min read
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Ricci Schwarzler
My Spring was warm, hot, sunny Friends, funny My summer was hot, fun, Laughter, sun. Its autumn. Hot, cold, warm, cool. Colours vibrant...
Ricci Schwarzler
Apr 141 min read
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David Gairdner - Leaf
Leaf below bare fig: The skin blushing from fall, covers Eden's guest. God is getting old. We dread that 3am call. Could be any day.
David Gairdner
Apr 141 min read
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David Gairdner - First Anniversary of my Mother's Passing (04/04/25)
I call you, Mum, to remember the dead. You change the topic. Â I burn candles, while you blanket infernos. Â Fire cracks your coffee cup,...
David Gairdner
Apr 71 min read
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