![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2019](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/47966221306_f8e29d198e_k.jpg)
Images from the Newcastle Poetry Festival 2019 which took place between 1st May and 4th May 2019 at the Sage Gateshead and the Northern Stage. To…
![Foliage Maud Webster](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
leafy green pokes itself from the piss-patched slabs rest their fertile fuzz upon the sidewalk emerald anarchists reclaiming order if i lay perch my palms…
![The Wait Sydney Wright](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
The Wait We wait. We wait For the turn of a blank page At the end of a book. For the final chapter that Fell…
![Whispers Barney Webb](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
Whispers Listening to music on headphones, Suddenly the world is behind you, Burrowed in the back of your brain, Calling, blaming, teasing, howling. Who puts…
![Home Ruby Wilson](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
Home A pretty parcel Wrapped up in red. Before me the bow comes Away like burned skin and The paper, retorting in Agony, reveals a…
![The Pressure of Love Zeinab Attia](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
The Pressure of Love Your eyes are (glass)y Like a mouth ajar (crack)ling Spits tears through its (open)ing And you now (under)stand That this thing…
![Muddled Dorit Greene](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
Muddled In the middle of the Atlantic Lives bad news A whale Wistfully singing Through the storm Of cold And unmade beds Which twinkle Under…
![secrets Barney Webb](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
‘secrets’ was a winning poem in the 2019 Newcastle Young People’s Poetry Competition.
![August 11th 1980 Thomas Probyn](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
August 11th 1980 August 11th 1980. The blue, the black, the cadmium yellow, They’d said the crossing was fine; no one really knew. All apart…
![I wish Izzy Hamer](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Screenshot-2019-03-19-at-15.36.11-470x140.png)
I wish I wish I had no fear I wish I had teleportation I wish I had a Basset Hound I wish I had a…
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