A glimpse into Ewart Milne’s painfully intimate collection of poems. Ewart Milne’s Time Stopped is not a book: it’s an open wound. In a prefatory note, Milne calls this collection of poems ‘the story of the narrator’s life as seen in retrospect after the death of this wife.’ The problem is that Milne’s life stopped when […]
UEA Creative Writing
Here be dragons: a love letter
An extract from Ilona Bushell’s biography of Margery Allingham, The Beckoning Land. The first book by Margery Allingham I ever bought was Mystery Mile. It is a little Penguin classic with a green jacket, identifying it in the genre of ‘crime fiction’. Across the front is a white strip containing the title and the black […]
Blowing away the morning dew
An extract from Caroline Davison’s work in progress on how the true story of the brutal murder of a cabin-boy at sea was transformed into a musical evocation of rural Norfolk by one of England’s most renowned composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams. All with my garling spikk I misused him So shamefully I can’t deny […]
A Plaid for Lady Grange
An extract from a non-fiction work in progress, Shouting from the Edge of the World. In January 1732, Lady Grange was abducted from an Edinburgh boarding house. She recognised the men who wrestled her to the ground, bound her in cloth like a corpse, and tied her to the back of a rider on horseback. […]
Unthology 10, edited by Ashley Stokes and Robin Jones
Unthology 10 is the latest anthology of new short fiction to be co-edited UEA alumnus Ashley Stokes, along with Robin Jones, and published by Unthank Press. Ashley graduated from the UEA MA in Creative Writing in 1997 and published his first novel Touching The Starfish in 2010. His debut collection of stories The Syllabus of […]
Wretched Strangers edited by Ágnes Lehóczky and JT Welsch
Wretched Strangers is a new anthology of poetry, co-edited by UEA alumna Ágnes Lehóczky, along with JT Welsch, and recently published by Boiler House Press. All the contributors are British poets who were born outside the UK, including the UEA graduates Ben Borek (MA 2004), Sandeep Parmar (MA 2003), Agnieszka Studzinska (MA 2003), Rebecca Tamás […]
we live in the newness of small differences by Sohini Basak
we live in the newness of small differences is the debut collection of poetry by UEA alumna Sohini Basak and has just been published by Eyewear Publishing, having won the 2017 Beverley manuscript prize organized by the publisher. Sohini grew up in Barrackpore, India, and studied Literature and Creative Writing at the Universities of Delhi […]
Shylock Must Die by Clive Sinclair
Shylock Must Die is a posthumous collection of short stories by UEA alumnus Clive Sinclair and has recently been published by Halban. Clive was born in 1948 and died in March 2018. He completed his BA at UEA in 1969 and his PhD in 1983 and later returned to the University as a Royal Literary […]
To Provide All People by Owen Sheers
To Provide All People is a book-length poem by UEA alumnus Owen Sheers and has just been published by Faber & Faber to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the National Health Service Act. Owen graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) in 1998 and published his first collection of poetry, The Blue Book, […]
UEA graduates’ short story successes
A number of alumni of the UEA MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) and the PhD in Creative & Critical Writing have recently had success with their short stories. C. D. Rose, who graduated from the MA in 2008, and Iain Robinson, who gained his PhD in 2009, are included in the forthcoming Best British […]
