Spring
We have our own, special, New Year’s Honour to confer!
Congratulations to Helen Adie, English and Drama teacher at the senior school, who has achieved a distinction in her MA at Royal Holloway College in Creative Writing, specialising in Poetry. Helen had the privilege of working with celebrated poets Andrew Motion and Jo Shapcott, her course tutors, who also examined her writing together with poet Paul Farley. She produced 48 poems for assessment and wrote a 13,000 word dissertation about movement and stillness in poetry, her inspiration being the works of Louise Gluck and Sylvia Plath.
Helen's poems have been published in the anthology Bedford 5, in South Bank magazine, and online in a magazine call Tramway. She won 1st prize at Havant Poetry Festival with this beautiful poem:
| They Wear Each other For Disguise,
sea and sky, vying for a split horizon
to hold one up and keep the other
down. They play at opaque, swap light
swap wet, turning see through
or half hidden in a thin skein.
Sometimes they hunch shoulder
to shoulder along a coastal spur.
Sometimes they play each other.
They play each other sometimes,
spurred on by the coast, shouldering
for them a see through skein
of changing light. They swap –
water, air. The horizon
hides behind a veil of grey.
For a split second there’s no line
between them: no sea, no sky.
©Helen Adie
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