DrAndrewMcDonnellWrites.bsky.social
@andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social
Poet (Salt 2019, Broken Sleep forthcoming), fiction writer and academic at University Centre Peterborough. Lives in Norwich. Travels by train. Parents by exhaustion.
Today’s fave bit of lit: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au.
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode.
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode.
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025
Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
Start a degree or university-level qualification at University Centre Peterborough this September through Clearing 2025.
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August 8, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Today’s fave bit of lit: Cold Enough For Snow by Jessica Au.
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode.
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough. A Malcolm Bradbury bursary of 7.5k is available for an applicant living in a PE postcode.
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ #Clearing 2025
Thomas Lytch from the poem Village
by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape)
Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#clearing #poetry #Alevelresults
by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape)
Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#clearing #poetry #Alevelresults
August 7, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Thomas Lytch from the poem Village
by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape)
Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#clearing #poetry #Alevelresults
by Alice Oswald in Falling Awake (Jonathan Cape)
Clearing open at University Centre Peterborough for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing degree:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#clearing #poetry #Alevelresults
Farewell Loch Thom by WS Graham
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#poetry #books #clearing #poems
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#poetry #books #clearing #poems
August 5, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Farewell Loch Thom by WS Graham
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#poetry #books #clearing #poems
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature and Creative Writing degree at University Centre Peterborough:
www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#poetry #books #clearing #poems
At The Parrot Sanctuary - from The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe)
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#creativewriting #poetry #clearing
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#creativewriting #poetry #clearing
August 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
At The Parrot Sanctuary - from The Silence Living in Houses by Esther Morgan (Bloodaxe)
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#creativewriting #poetry #clearing
Clearing open for the BA Hons English Literature & Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough: www.ucp.ac.uk/discover/ Clearing 2025 at University Centre Peterborough
#creativewriting #poetry #clearing
The imperious De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.
July 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
The imperious De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.
Mt Ventoux! what a stage!
July 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Mt Ventoux! what a stage!
Hear me talk about why Creative Writing is for everyone and how to develop your craft on BBC Radio Cambs (starts at 14:40 after Bowie) and the free two-day course I’m running this week at University Centre Peterborough:
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July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Hear me talk about why Creative Writing is for everyone and how to develop your craft on BBC Radio Cambs (starts at 14:40 after Bowie) and the free two-day course I’m running this week at University Centre Peterborough:
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
There’s hope for me yet…
July 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
There’s hope for me yet…
Pizza, chips and portal for Cthulu in Lidl.
June 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Pizza, chips and portal for Cthulu in Lidl.
Day one of the Fenland Literature symposium at UEA today organised by Rebecca Pinner and it was Fen female saints, kings and hermits plus how the fens are inspiring poems, novels and radio plays. Tomorrow I am presenting on the Fens as an uncanny space in literature:
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Day one of the Fenland Literature symposium at UEA today organised by Rebecca Pinner and it was Fen female saints, kings and hermits plus how the fens are inspiring poems, novels and radio plays. Tomorrow I am presenting on the Fens as an uncanny space in literature:
First year Creative Writing student & Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough. Read about how the bursary has supported her.
helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross
helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross
My first year at University
Since I started my BA Hons in English Literature and Creative Writing at University Centre Peterborough in September, it’s been a wild ride. After submitting my essay to the Malcolm Bradbury …
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June 18, 2025 at 5:37 AM
First year Creative Writing student & Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough. Read about how the bursary has supported her.
helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross
helencrosswriting.wordpress.com/2025/06/17/m... My first year at University – Helen Cross
First year Creative Writing student and Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough (UCP). Read about how the bursary has supported her. 👇
lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing
lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing
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June 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
First year Creative Writing student and Malcolm Bradbury Trust bursary recipient Helen Cross recounts her action packed year at University Centre Peterborough (UCP). Read about how the bursary has supported her. 👇
lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing
lnkd.in/duVpQ98A My first year at University – Helen Cross Writing
Poetry relegated from the premier league:
May 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Poetry relegated from the premier league:
Francesca Gardner said British poets were "very interested" in the lawn
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Cambridge study suggests 'poetic obsession' with lawnmowers
Academic research suggests British poets have written about mowing the lawn for nearly 375 years.
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May 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Francesca Gardner said British poets were "very interested" in the lawn
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
‘You know the rain comes down, the sun shines, grass grows. Children grow old and die. That’s the holy all of it. We know it full well, but can’t even whisper it.’
Give this haunting & elegiac film, an adaptation of a John Gahern novel, a few hours of your life:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Give this haunting & elegiac film, an adaptation of a John Gahern novel, a few hours of your life:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC One - That They May Face the Rising Sun
That They May Face the Rising Sun is a cinematic elegy to a lost Ireland.
www.bbc.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 10:08 PM
‘You know the rain comes down, the sun shines, grass grows. Children grow old and die. That’s the holy all of it. We know it full well, but can’t even whisper it.’
Give this haunting & elegiac film, an adaptation of a John Gahern novel, a few hours of your life:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Give this haunting & elegiac film, an adaptation of a John Gahern novel, a few hours of your life:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Sutton Hoo
April 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Sutton Hoo
Black Shuck land. (Blythburgh Church)
April 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Black Shuck land. (Blythburgh Church)
‘Brexit benefits’
April 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
‘Brexit benefits’
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
April 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
