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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Vesna McMaster - Paste
I don’t have time to Assemble a decent verse Open the jarred paste

Vesna McMaster
Mar 31, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster - Paste
Impasto thinking an overlapping chaos brain swamped in paint splats

Vesna McMaster
Mar 31, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster - Paste
Misread calendar Deadline closer than I thought Face like mushroom pate

Vesna McMaster
Mar 31, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster – Cabinet
‘Yes, I’ll just get the paper from the office, one moment… Wait a minute, what’s this?’ A corner of the room has mushroomed into a lump of blankets and pillows which are draped into a defensive tent over furniture. Henry lifts an edge of a quit and peers underneath. ‘Hello?’ ‘Go away. We’re busy.’ A small and very cross voice responds. ‘We?’ ‘We’re in a meeting. It’s private.’ ‘Tilly…’ He lifts the corner a little higher. The bottom of the bureau has been emptie

Vesna McMaster
Mar 10, 20252 min read


Vesna McMaster - Tomato
First Park Run in years Instils the rosy glow of A ripe tomato

Vesna McMaster
Mar 3, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster – Wind
Wind up the tomato, we have 20 minutes. What will you say, in your allotted time? Tick tick tick tick. Equivalencies of time to money, ‘spending’ time, ‘wasting’ time, apparently were not always made. I hear the concept was accentuated with the rise of Calvinist ethics of work equating to goodness – and the obverse of leisure equating to sin. Hard to imagine a ‘time’ where time is not measured. The carriage clock came around in the 1700s, bringing the blissfully diverse chr

Vesna McMaster
Feb 10, 20251 min read
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