FRANKS CASKET

Franks Casket is a poetry webzine produced by Newcastle University's School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics. It aims to provide a platform for creative writing within the university and throughout the north.

It is named after the ivory book-box made in this region in the 7th Century, a box supposed to contain the

codex cosmographiorum mirandi operis (the book of cosmographies and wondrous work)

While we can't promise precisely those contents, you will find poets from Newcastle's Creative Writing MA alongside new and established writers from one of the most thriving poetry scenes in the country. Please feel free to browse the site and to submit work or comments.

We are interested in receiving work from student poets, especially writers on Creative Writing courses, and poets based in the North of England. That said, we are happy to look at good poetry from anywhere, and to publish what we can.