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I. Summer Your smile twists me out of sleep Like a corkscrew and I’m ready To feel the sunrise at 6am, I inhale Bumblebee-dizzy and full of vitality A mile from this shadow-speckled step We spend the day juggling…
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Untitled #1
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Michael
I Snail’s hideout Sun burning long and so distant Hermit crab scuttles predators everywhere Rodent nervousness in the presence of non-rodent Winter recluse, summer shame, absent spring rebirth Incepting repulsion…
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The Borderline
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Michael
Perception: I see A colour And call it Red How do you know That you don’t call A different colour Red also? Maybe my Blue Is your Red, And when we agree Something is…
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Perception
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Michael
I have an illustration exhibition on at the moment in Norwich. The exhibition is on for the whole of June and the private view is on the 23rd of June from 6 to 8 pm. If you have a chance to pop into the Assembly House in Norwich you would be able to…
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illustration exhib…
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Michaela Alberi…
I have spent 12 years wanting to be a published author of fiction. On 05 May 2011, the waiting will finally be over. But I feel reflective about it, as opposed to elated. Even anxious. I remember vividly, keenly,…
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Being Published
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Katie Ward
Funk is a sensation that can manipulate the best of us into a dreamy state of mind. Writers of the past and future have tried to craft the feeling into words but have failed to do so as it covers such a range within the music spectrum. Let…
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GUIDE TO FUNK
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Daniel Lee Harv…
After another stress free journey on the London underground, with the wonderful general public- (the “british-ness” of polite queuing goes to pot in that underworld) – my friends and I found ourselves walking the streets of Islington.…
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Brooke Fraser`s me…
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m.e.g.
Metallica write this song in 1991 for the album “Metallica”. To write their songs the guitarist Kirt Hammet and the bassist Jason make tapes of their ideas and give those tapes to the rhythm guitarist James Hetfield and the drummer Lars…
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Enter Sandman- Nd1…
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Aaron Slick Hen…
For the last project in the National Diploma Music course at Suffolk New Collage we have to perform in, what we are calling, our MMP (major music project). This consists of putting on our own gig using the things that we have learnt through the year.<br…
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Nd1 Music at Suffo…
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Aaron Slick Hen…
Regurgitating pain and vomiting blood, The sorrow of my heart, wounded for eternity, Waiting for the hole inside, to grow bigger. Watch my soul turn hollow, eating away and gnawing my insides where the thick and darkened blood<br…
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Pain
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Aaron Slick Hen…
Inspiration or intense editing? Queen! Sting! The Jackson 5! Frank Sinatra! Would these still be the greats that we look up to now if they had used autotune? We talk about natural talent with an expectation that the talent is natural, but what’s…
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The Autotuned Gene…
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Aaron Slick Hen…
Let us dance under the star lit sky to the sound of our hearts, Let us hold each other when the shadows have found us, Let us hear each other when we silently cry for help, Let us pray that today will end happily, Let us move…
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Let us
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Aaron Slick Hen…
Follow thy pilots light That which shines so bright And leads thy way from night unto day. Upon thou mind thy heart shall play Until the day the stars reveal to you fortunes love full tune Swear I do upon the moon<br…
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Leading the way
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Aaron Slick Hen…
Staring at a spot, you feel like an oil swill, or perhaps a catarac is pervading your vision following your eyes. Staring at the underside of the windowsill, you debate why it’s not painted. Thoughts drift while the mouth agrees. …
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We’ve got ma…
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Trevormcdevor
You come when I’m shaking and go when I wake, Set in your grasp are the roots of my mistakes. A beating heart flounders when placed beneath the pane. You’re startled by anger and left to hold the gaze, …
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A Star Where I Was
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Tinny Buffnell
The square is packed with coat-clad people and newly soaked by ill-timed showers, the market lights glow amber and hang overhead with the hum of night flies. Their toasted, rich colours sing to my soul as sirens do,…
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German Market
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Harry March
Taken away, enticed on a note and enskied by the forehead, indifferent to malign or benign, content to drink the whine. Ears sodomised by an audible iridescence, a selected tradition crystalised in essence, fossilised into something mythical,…
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Melody
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Trevormcdevor
The old dairy farm’s being converted by rich people. Clouds of saw-dust sail as the builders cut beams to keep the original style and to stay on good terms with the village council. It’ll never look the same but…
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Bullock Sheds
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Harry March
Bouncing, bumping, swaying, the bus winds out of the city centre and, as one returning home, I feel a heaviness lift from my shoulders as the picture of a cup of tea and television gets clearer with every bend of the road.…
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97 Bus - Ipswich t…
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Harry March
The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,…
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Analysis of ‘…
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Alannah D-Y
Michael Kingston was the unrivalled champion of the hundred metre sprint. People gathered in their millions to experience the second-hand adrenaline rush of the victor as he flew with an undeniable power across the broad, stretched surface that is…
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Rise and Fall
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Alannah D-Y
From a storm to a war, You rescued them all, And set them down in a peaceful port. I said you were wrong, But let you carry on, Turning rising stars into setting suns. No room for a lie, To trace the…
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Today, The Day
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Tinny Buffnell
So the titan of gaming has finally arrived, does the most anticipated game of the year, perhaps even of this generation, live up to the hype? The answer, somewhat predictably, is yes and no. It seems the term ‘blockbuster’ no longer applies…
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Call of Duty: Mode…
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JoeP
Inception is a funny one; rarely does a blockbuster film deliver such magnificent set pieces and large scale spectacle whilst still managing to deliver some of the most thought invoking narrative available to the Hollywood industry. As you have probably…
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Inception Review
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JoeP
Time when all the world is asleep, something in my mind flashed so deep. Peeped through my window, the cute twilight, welcoming me into the new day of light. The dreamily bright sun rays, rolled over my slender cheeks,<br…
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GOOD MORNING
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paul
Awake a new day awaits you. a new battle to win a new challenge to accept a new secret to reveal. fly high into the sky. imagine over the clouds, surf on the Sun dive through the stars, with…
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INSPIRATION
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paul
Kim scrolled through her I pod for a song. She wasn’t sure what she was looking for really, every song seemed old. Taking the earphones out, she carelessly chucked the nano into her bag and leant back into her chair. Looking up, she could see…
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Carnivalesque of t…
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m.e.g.
Mankind has accomplished many things. We’ve tamed fire, split atoms, and even reached out beyond our tiny celestial body to the infinite space beyond. However, one great mystery still remains: What’s the best pub in Ipswich?…
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Ipswich Pub Guide
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Alex Palmer
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