CREATIVE WRITING

Contemplations of Motherhood

By Holly Radestock, Polyphony Volume 5 Issue 1. First published on 7th of March 2023. “The Cradle” – Berthe Morisot, 1872 You are the...

Carla&Tor

by Fillippa Jensen Polyphony, Volume 3, Issue 1 First published December 2020, Manchester (Video: Narrated by Fillippa Jensen; Filmed and...

Oilman

by Molly Mahoney Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester (Photo: Victoria Langford, 2020) “You gave me...

Papa John's Elegy

by Lauryn Berry Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester I may be tipsy as I write this but I think even a...

Manchester in Haikus

by Ellie Ormerod Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 2 First published April 2020, Manchester A choked skyline; the necks of towers, gripped by...

October

by Katie Hourigan Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester I would like October to last forever, everything...

Three Poems

by Amy Wei Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester Dinner You leave me in the kitchen at five with...

Ode to the Estate

by Imogen Fahey Polyphony, Volume 2, Issue 1 First published April 2020, Manchester post-war high rises and radburn plots where...

Autumn in New York

by Jacob Thompson Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester It was a quarter-to-twelve on the fifteenth of June...

An Extract from 'The Island of Traditions'

by Lucia Cannizzaro Polyphony, Volume 1, Issue 1 First Published March 2019, Manchester Arriving in Palermo, we get lunch at the Antica...

The Walk Home

by Harley Weng U Pun Volume 1, Issue 1 We are stumbling through satin streets as the horizon glows on Oxford Road. The sky is plum when...