Skip to content

Courtenay's Corner

  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Linktree

Writing by Courtenay Schembri Gray

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Publications
  • Awards
  • Plays
  • Poetry Postmortem
  • Diaries
  • Book(s)
  • Contact

Category: Poetry

June Diary ’24

The fresh, pink jelly of twenty-seven trips around the sun hits my soul. I spend the day eating cake and … More

books, bookworm, diary, film, journal, literature

In Search of Lost Children

The idea of magic had been a constant in my life, right up until high school. The miserable time I … More

Children's Literature, Christmas, Creative Writing, essay

Introducing…Pozzywallah

This coming November, my very first sibling will enter the world. When I was a child, I adored fantasy stories … More

Author, Children's Literature, Creative Writing, Fantasy, literature, publishing

Diary: May ’24

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. … More

Creative Writing, diary, essay, literature, Personal

The Philistine at Downing

To Rishi Sunak Garish ghouls in their wooden cabinet send our coins to burn to a cinder.  Woken by the … More

literature, Poetry, Political Poetry, Politics

Migration as a Bloodletting

Author’s Note: Happy Gemini season! I will be turning twenty-seven on the 28th of May. This makes me a Gemini … More

Architecture, Culture, lifestyle, philosophy, psychology

Diary: April ’24

“Now the babies are crying, I must take them out to tea.” —The Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume II “April … More

Poetry, Stage, Theatre, writing community

Hanahaki

“Hanahaki disease (花吐き病 (Japanese); 하나하키병 (Korean); 花吐病 (Chinese)) is a fictional disease where the victim of unrequited or one-sided love … More

japan, North West, Poetry, writing community

Poetry Postmortem (8) / Patient: The Tears of Things by Maya C. Popa

Author’s Note: The Poetry Postmortem is where I take a poem I or someone else wrote and I discuss it … More

Arts, Cultural Criticism, Culture, literature, poems, Poetry, t-s-eliot

Poetry Postmortem (7)

Patient: The Underground by Seamus Heaney Over on my Substack, I have this series called Poetry Postmortem. The purpose of … More

literature, Poetry, Poetry Analysis, Seamus Heaney

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts
A WordPress.com Website.
Courtenay's Corner
A WordPress.com Website.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Courtenay's Corner
    • Join 134 other subscribers
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Courtenay's Corner
    • Subscribe Subscribed
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar

Loading Comments...