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Tuesday 9th December 2025
Oxford's oldest independent student newspaper, est. 1920
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made its blades stand sentinel and straight, made the lock stick on the kissing gate
The Philosopher on His Way to the Shops
God! Ah, fuck! By breezy decree, He’ll kick me straight to fire and rot
Ordinary Dreams
I dreamt about you last night. It was not remarkable or extraordinary; You sent me to the local shops with a list of groceries,...
Estate Birds
Out here they live all for one and one for all; Brutal towers have brutal rules.
In Winter
if I listen to the breeze I hear night
In Regions Clear, and Far
there is no us without this city. Oxford is ours
pandemic
Who’ll ask if it’s too brave to dream again?
An Afternoon in Late Autumn
And I was all the warmth and life on earth.
Eventual Ghosts
As we sailed on enthralled in the pursuit of some ardent glory
Punctuate As The State Sees Fit
Before we were mad We could dance as we wanted
We are a backwards people
The sun revolves around the Earth which revolves around our moon and the twinkling little stars.
Shoulder
She leant back and let the blade of his shoulder frame the picture, for that’s how she would replay it in her head.
Oxford By Night
Immortality comes not in cobweb, but in gold tinged stone.
Day to live, day to love
Today is a Sunday, and today is a beautiful day to be alive
Walking Together
Because I’ll miss you became The I love you for friends
Anxiety and Me
If I am having a bad day I am going to tell you and have no shame about it.
Wandering Walser
Walser died in the same style in which he wrote: he went on a lonely walk and never came back.
New Year
Redrafting a life with no object for feeling
Beyond the window
Fated to be caught perpetually behind the window, always waiting for that elusive tomorrow.
Sonnet: Written by the Sambre-Oise Canal, On a Pilgrimage to Wilfred Owen’s Deathplace
Doubling love for those lines that 'scaped the mire
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