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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.
October 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
August 8, 2025 at 8:16 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
August 7, 2025 at 8:32 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
August 5, 2025 at 2:46 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
August 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The imperious De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.
July 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Mt Ventoux! what a stage!
July 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Hey Carlton, hope yr keeping well. Look at this:
July 19, 2025 at 4:56 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/...
July 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
There’s hope for me yet…
July 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Pizza, chips and portal for Cthulu in Lidl.
June 23, 2025 at 10:16 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:
June 19, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Poetry relegated from the premier league:
May 31, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Meanwhile, in #Norwich:
May 25, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Sutton Hoo
April 18, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Black Shuck land. (Blythburgh Church)
April 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
‘Brexit benefits’
April 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Blobby blobby blobby, as spotted in #norwich
April 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
April 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74
April 5, 2025 at 8:20 PM
What does the mythical hellhound, Black Shuck have in common with the wetlands of East Anglia? Find out at this free poetry event, 23/04 at University Centre Peterborough - Matt Howard and Cat Woodward with Alex Tyler on compere duties, plus ten open mic slots:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/university...
April 4, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My nine year old wrote a speech as Boudicca and it’s the sweetest call to arms I have ever read.
April 4, 2025 at 6:26 PM
This, and this again.
April 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
April 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
April 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM