Lucy Newlyn

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About

Welcome to my website

Seaweed at Carne

A selection of Cornish seaweed photos

Wreck

A poem inspired by Barbara Hepworth, written after seeing a wrecked boat on the Camel Estuary in Cornwall.

Chatterton

Poem inspired by Henry Wallis's portrait of the death of Chatterton

The lovers

A poem in response to Rene Magritte's 'Lovers'

Articles

A Leeds obituary

Jimmy Savile and the Leeds Millennium Tapestry

Bipolar

Diary of a Bipolar Explorer

In her fifteen-year diary, Lucy Newlyn discloses recurring episodes of mania, depression, hallucination and paranoid delusion.

Books

Coming soon...The Craft of Poetry

“How does poetry work? What should readers notice and look out for? Poet Lucy Newlyn demystifies the principles of the form, effortlessly illustrating key approaches and terms—all through her own original verse.”

Brushstrokes

Road to Capel Curig

A poem in response to John Sell Cotman's painting. 'Road to Capel Curig'

Cornwall

Chatter of Choughs

An anthology of poetry and prose celebrating the return of the Cornish Chough to Cornwall; edited by Lucy Newlyn.

Poetry

The Anxiety of Influence

A pair of villanelles I wrote a while ago about the anxiety of influence...a concept which goes on fascinating me, even though I am long done with Harold Bloom.

Word and Image

Falling

With apologies to W.H. Auden, here’s a poem about Kate Newlyn’s sculpture, ‘Icarus’. I have a bronze resin cast of this on our wall at home. It is slightly different in some minor details from the image.

Lucy Newlyn © 2021