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Author Archives: Amanda
Let’s talk collocation…
Originally posted on Writing Pearls:
Collocation is fascinating to me, as a writer. For those who don’t know (and I’ll use my own simplistic explanation, which might be all wrong but it’s how I see it) collocation is when certain words are grouped together to make a ‘usual sentence’. So, if someone says, ‘I’ll make…
Online Poetry Launch (Tonight March 21st)
‘Briny, the latest collection of poems from Mandy Haggith, reflects her passion for the sea’.
The Ginkgo Prize Ecopoetry Anthology 2019: The Symbiosis of Artistic Literature and Science by Utilising Personification.
‘By attributing personal nature and human characteristics onto the bear, Riley and the other Ginkgo poets engage with individuals ‘at a deeper and potentially more affective level’ than science…’
The Iliad’s Ideological Confliction
‘Helen has been labelled by patriarchal stereotyping as a woman who is good: angelic, gentle and submissive (Tyson 2015: 85). However, in the true eyes of patriarchy, Helen is not good. She is one of the stereotypical bad women…’
Scottish Crime Fiction: Intertextual Gothic Dualisms in Margaret Kirk’s Shadow Man
‘Kirk’s quote is an intertextual allusion to William McIlvanney’s crime novel, Laidlaw…’
Blackthorn
On Sunday,before Mum’s cancer was confirmedwinter yawned a warm shiverand wee white buds—still with a boreal bite—popped from dark-bark spindles, yet to leaf,phosphorescent against blue-black hueslike earth stars discarded from the sky. I nipped outside and snipped thebaby branches from the main trunk,rehoming them indoors, redressingthe air with decaying base notes,topped with aContinue reading “Blackthorn”
Birthday
What would you wish for
as you blew out twelve candles
my unborn seedling.
Daddy
Below rugged earth by Fairy Hill,
my roots are entangled in bones
relieved of soft flesh
Moon
Twilight blinks
upon the road
a lifeless deer
Pearl balled in mirrored eye.
Inking Prose & Poetry 