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The Diary of an Unpublished Author #3
Dear Diary,
It’s been a while, hasn’t it?
Poetry Corner | Poem #18: Take Me to the Mountains
Because I only feel at home when I can see, and feel, just how small I really am. Everyone needs to go and stand in the shadows of the mountains every once in a while and breathe. It does wonders to your perspective.
Review: Burial Rites, Hannah Kent
Northern Iceland, 1829. A woman condemned to death for murdering her lover. A family forced to take her in. A priest tasked with absolving her. But all is not as it seems, and time is running out: winter is coming, and with it the execution date. Only she can know the truth. This is Agnes’s […]
Poetry Corner | Poem #17
Who says that writing isn’t like giving birth? And a little bit like self-destruction too. I do my best work while the rest of the world is asleep, apparently, and it’s always going to be worth it.
Poetry Corner | Poem #16: Blackbird
Spring has sprung and life, it blooms. I’ve just been thinking about the beauty in the everyday and the little moments which make up happiness, and I think I managed to capture this one on paper. I guess I don’t need kangaroos or koala bears after all, just the humble old blackbird.
Poetry Corner | Poem #13: I Was Ice
An oldie but a goodie. In my eyes anyway.
Poetry Corner | Poem #12
And sometimes I wish that I could unbelieve the person, or the people, that I create. And sometimes I think that I should just be grateful for an imagination so resourceful. To be honest I don’t think this even counts as a poem but, hey, they’re words and I like them.
Bethany Wren 