Rehomed, Renamed
As part of the 2024 Summer School, Newcastle University's Writing Poetry MA students were poets-in-residence at the Great North Museum Hancock. Around the museum you can find poems written by the students during the Summer School.
The professional writing residency with the GNM:H encouraged new ways to engage with the museum’s collections, history, and modern cultural presence. It allowed the students to explore new perspectives to the way they approach writing.
Further information about the Writing Poetry MA can be found on the Newcastle University website.
Writing Poetry MA | Postgraduate | Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)
Ammonite
Wound time, stone bound
flesh turned rock, turned
indecipherable. Warning:
eventually, sand counts
seconds swallow you,
encased in a dense shell
so your softness Is lost.
Such is the future’s gaze
so many foibles, failures,
few causes for fanfare.
Fear keeps us alive, makes
us fodder for Father Time.
Fibulae, femurs & vertebrae
all the way down. Staircase
spiraling into an entropic
crocus, brightly blossoming,
before closing, nocturnal
flower fleeing dawn’s first
fingers. Snake’s maw, a wide
singularity, waiting to snap.
After viewing the large Ammonite fossil, I began to think about how time eventually makes ‘fossils’ of us all and how all of the achievements of our modern world, might look backward and misguided to those generations that follow us. Hindsight is 20/20, right?
Elontra N. Hall
Leg Riddles: whose legs?
Nineteen thirty eight.
After millions of years,
we found one. Killed it.
Louise Ordish
