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Resident writers Michaela Hall, poet Peter Devonald, and reviewer Mildred Burchett-Vass.

Posts in poetry
Externalising the internal - by Peter Devonald our poet in residence

Bodies inscribed with complex hieroglyphics,

every abuse, trauma, ghosts and ghosting,

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Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald - "Outsider Art"

The term outsider art was coined in 1972 in the title of a book by art critic Roger Cardinal as an English equivalent for art brut (French: "raw art" or "rough art"), a label created in the 1940s…

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PETER DEVONALD - POETRY AND LATEST NEWS

All the lost clauses so full of importance,
all the sleepless and listless nights

unseen by human eyes,
the mithering misery of it all:

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Poet in Residence: Peter Devonald Issue 52: Word Art, Slogans and Manifestos

How to explain modern chaos/ confusion and MADNESS of crackers without cheese?
How to keep sane when the world is crazy...

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Peter Devonald - Science and Art as poetry

Roll up, roll up, to the greatest science show on earth
you might not understand them yet, but you're sure to see their worth.
There is mystery and magic here - to witness and behold ….

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Peter Devonald -Poet in Residence -Fifty And Fabulous

Stevenson's poem ​is about an imagined happy homecoming in death​ - a short poem of longing and returning, a profound sense of accomplishment and belonging. ​Larkin's is very much the opposite - a savage condemnation…

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Peter Devonald – "Changing the Discourse" Poet in Residence Latest News June 2024

Is this a poem?

Just because I say it is?
Or does it require more
alliteration and anomalies,
perhaps, or striking…

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Issue 48 - the studio space as art... Peter Devonald – Poet in Residence The Artist Studio

Glimpses of the artist’s true intention, heart, seen in Exquisite Fallacies, their past, present…

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Issue 47 - International women's Month - by Poet Peter devonald

Let her be free

let her be contented

let her be allowed

to live the life she wants.

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Issue 45 Tipping Points - Poet - Peter Devonald

love looking at new ways of writing that aren’t linear – so as a reader we have to find our own way of reading the text. It’s very strange to write and will be interesting to hear your response to it.

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