Life at Suffolk

University isn’t just the place you go to learn about your course or discover your alcohol tolerance. It’s a place where you can learn to be yourself and find hobbies you are interested in (although finding out your ...

The results of the Student New Angle Writing Awards (SNAP) 2021 were announced recently. The Winner is ‘The Singing Tides’ by Bradley Garnham and the Runner-up is ‘Aelfthryth’ by Sarah Clark. Life at Suffolk Student Blogger and English student Rose interviewed ...

Squishing and squelching their rhythm, these boots,Squashing who knows what, journey on fallen reeds.Layering a swampy imprint in peat-brown sponge,A soup of brackish tea from where folk tales rise. Uncanny mists drape derelict cliffs, tasting gravity,Edging ...

Winner of the Student New Angle Prize competitionMy grandmother once led me along a winding coastal path, one windy winter’s morning many years ago. There was a cold and quiet mist about us as we trudged along the beach, ...

Listen all, and listen well,To this story I will tell—The tale is mine, of love and foul play,For it is the story of my dying day. In Polstead, I was born and raised,Pretty and fair and ...

You can see the crumbling wallas you make your wayinto the centre of the city.A reminder of our not so distant past.This is our Norwich, our fine city. The thing about our city’s walls is thatwe often ...

A crow croaks. Magpies chatter to each other from the trees. A peewit peeps somewhere in the distance. The willows reach down and shatter the glass-like water. A kingfisher darts from one side of the bank to the other as ...

Deep, thick furrowed earth like chocolate. New shoots of winter wheat glistening in low sunlight. This is Suffolk. Fields up and down, hazed sky as blue as Turkish waters.Our boots are heavy with clay. Rusty the Labrador hunts, sniffs, ...

Growing up, the carefully tended limits of our suburban garden opened up onto heathland; a quick hop over the fence and my brother and I were birthed into a vast wilderness. We headed first to the large dip in the ...