Category Archives: 21st century

The last five years have brought about devastating events. Such events may have resulted in impacts on a global scale or specific to singular countries. 2016 brought about the most unexpected of American elections, ushering in a new age of reality TV politics. The election of Donald Trump was quite shocking to the world. InitiallyContinueContinue reading “Much of the literature of the 20th Century has been written in response to momentous events such as the first and second world wars. Draw up a short list of some of the momentous events that have been hitting our planet in the last 5 years and suggest a few ways in which writers might try to make sense of any one of these events. Your response to this suggestion, might itself be a piece of creative prose or poetry”

Awesome Blog post Andrew! The addition of alphabetical order certainly would have provided an amazing challenge to have completed but provides such an excellent demonstration of Alliteration. I applaud you for the amazing effort put into creating a piece that not only experiments with language but produces some beautiful sounds. The precise choice of wordsContinueContinue reading “Peer Review 3”

To some imagination is thoughtfully escaping reality to wondrous worlds unknown to them. These worlds grant liberation hitherto undreamt of. To others it is a fool escaping reality because they are unable to bear its gravity. My thoughts align more firmly with that of Virginia Woolf, I believe the power of imagination is to liberateContinueContinue reading “Virginia Woolf believes in the power of the imagination to liberate human beings from”