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The Looking Glass Anthology, YUSU, University of York, Heslington, York. YO10 5DD.
First published 2011
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CREDITS
Editor-in-Chief
David Zendle
Head of Production
Christopher Fraser
Editorial
Katarina Jovanovic
Charlotte Boyle
Michael Walkden
Cicely Taube
Thomas Gregory
Danielle Gagola
Chris Bennigsen
Jamie Criswell
Bryony Littlefair
Robin Synnot
Tamara Bowler
Anthea Gordon
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Katarina Jovanovic
Katharine Hansford
Miles Deverson
Pierre Finnimore
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Robin Synnot
Siobhan Hurley
Tamara Bowler
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Funding
YUSU
The FR Leavis Fund provided by the FR Leavis Fund Committee in the Department of English and Related Literature
The Looking Glass Anthology
Volume 2
A literary anthology written and edited by students at the University of York
Contents
Foreword by David Zendle
On The Art of Empty Poetry by Libby Brown
East of Barcelona by Libby Brown
Grandfather by Christian Foley
Mathematics by Catherine Bennett
It Looked Like Scarborough, But It Felt Like Florida by Christopher Fraser
Lesson Plan by Laurence Cook
Sometimes I’m Glad by Laurence Cook
A Young Toad’s Travels by Micky Nolan
The Molecular Body by Catherine Bennett
Positions by Alexander Humerliss
Something Old, Something New by Joanne Hardy
Wade’s Causeway by Joanne Hardy
In The Trench by Sandra Garside-Neville
Doubt by Victoria Touzel
The Willy Pot by Sandra Garside-Neville
Keks Night Out by Peter Speller
With A Kiss by Serena Rudge
Whirligig Beetle by Peter Speller
Untitled by Naomi Cartmell
Sonnet by Nicky Kingsley
Purgatory by Nicky Kingsley
Mum’s Egg-Cup, One of a Set by Nicky Kingsley
Melody by Mark Wiltshire
Small Thought by Chris Bennigsen
Uganda by Susie Ricketts
Rainbow by Faye Tyreman
The White Dress by Marc Smith
Imagined by Olivia Waring
Walk of Shame by James Faktor
The Circle by Michael Walkden
Come The Revolution by Caroline Moore
Dvořák by Rebecca Hemsley
Tsunami by Gavrielle Groves-Gidney
The Jeremy Kole Show by Tim James
Water Creature by Anya Benson
Wings by Elliot Brooks
Emmeline by Olivia Waring
His Garden by Sue Smith
Slip by Jina Foo
Coventry – 14th November 1940 by Sarah Williams
Escape Lane Ahead by Nicola Hargrave
in-TRANSIT by Anthony Levin
Autumn in London by Fergus Tevlin
London’s Red Buses by Mosope Adekola
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