• Creative Corner: Twelfth Date Night by Esther Kearney

    We all know Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, where cross-dressing and confused twins abound. Here, Impact Arts’ resident creative writing genius Esther Kearney brings Viola and Sebastian into the twenty-first century. She woke up on the yacht, feeling more than a little intoxicated and with no recollection of the past five hours. She...
  • Creative Corner: How to cross-stitch

    Although it looks quite complicated, cross stitch is actually relatively simple to do – the real task is keeping patient over however many weeks it takes you to complete your piece. Cross stitch is a great stress reliever and an easy way to impress your friends with a homemade...
  • Poet’s Corner: A Response to the Poem by Shelley Entitled ‘To Harriet’

    What is it with these husbands and wives who after so long stop sleeping side-by-side and trade their marriage vows for their cyanide, a head-in-an-oven, a pocket full of stones and their husbands weep for a week and call it pride and say how She warded off the world...
  • Poet’s Corner: Advice From The Best People I Know

    Advice from the best people I know. Is it passion or is it words That make you sound as free as birds? Free as bloody birds. Be inspired, creative, and let your thoughts wander As lonely as a cloud, until you find the light through yonder Window breaks. Like...
  • To A Friend Who Needs It

    Imagine if the weather was permanent. Permanently sunny. You’d tell me, what’s wrong with that? Sunny days are the best days. What if the permanent weather suddenly wasn’t permanent anymore? What if the clouds came? You’d tell me, what’s wrong with that? We need rain once in a while....
  • Originals – VII

    With the academic year now being fully under way, we also see the return of our student poetry series Originals. To ease you back into the stress of student living, this week our selection of original poetry comes from student Osita Kabba. The realm of the man with broken...
  • 5 Similarities/Differences Between The Frick Collection, New York and The Wallace Collection, London

    These two iconic art galleries set in the heart of the USA and the UK are both uniquely situated in the homes of the collectors. Henry Clay Frick housed his collection in his Gilded Age mansion on Fifth Avenue, New York, whereas The Wallace Collection was gathered by  Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess...