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  Published by The Looking Glass Society

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  The Looking Glass Anthology, YUSU, University of York, Heslington, York. YO10 5DD.

  First published 2011

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  CREDITS

  Editor-in-Chief

  David Zendle

  Head of Production

  Christopher Fraser

  Editorial

  Katarina Jovanovic

  Charlotte Boyle

  Michael Walkden

  Cicely Taube

  Thomas Gregory

  Danielle Gagola

  Chris Bennigsen

  Jamie Criswell

  Bryony Littlefair

  Robin Synnot

  Tamara Bowler

  Anthea Gordon

  Bryony Hall

  Emily Gerrard

  Sam Perks

  Rebecca Bedding

  Lola Harre

  Publicity

  Chris Bennigsen

  Proofreaders

  Michael Walkden

  Lola Harre

  Bryony Littlefair

  Paid Members

  Alix Dixon

  Annie Webster

  Anthea Gordon

  Aiden Gonzales

  Bryony Hall

  Chris Bennigsen

  Cicely Taube

  Danielle Gagola

  Daniel McGrady

  Emily Martyn

  Jack Thacker

  Katarina Jovanovic

  Katharine Hansford

  Miles Deverson

  Pierre Finnimore

  Rachel Baird

  Rebecca Bedding

  Robin Synnot

  Siobhan Hurley

  Tamara Bowler

  Thomas Lovatt

  Funding

  YUSU

  The FR Leavis Fund provided by the FR Leavis Fund Committee in the Department of English and Related Literature

  The Looking Glass Anthology

  Volume 2

  A literary anthology written and edited by students at the University of York

  Contents

  Foreword by David Zendle

  On The Art of Empty Poetry by Libby Brown

  East of Barcelona by Libby Brown

  Grandfather by Christian Foley

  Mathematics by Catherine Bennett

  It Looked Like Scarborough, But It Felt Like Florida by Christopher Fraser

  Lesson Plan by Laurence Cook

  Sometimes I’m Glad by Laurence Cook

  A Young Toad’s Travels by Micky Nolan

  The Molecular Body by Catherine Bennett

  Positions by Alexander Humerliss

  Something Old, Something New by Joanne Hardy

  Wade’s Causeway by Joanne Hardy

  In The Trench by Sandra Garside-Neville

  Doubt by Victoria Touzel

  The Willy Pot by Sandra Garside-Neville

  Keks Night Out by Peter Speller

  With A Kiss by Serena Rudge

  Whirligig Beetle by Peter Speller

  Untitled by Naomi Cartmell

  Sonnet by Nicky Kingsley

  Purgatory by Nicky Kingsley

  Mum’s Egg-Cup, One of a Set by Nicky Kingsley

  Melody by Mark Wiltshire

  Small Thought by Chris Bennigsen

  Uganda by Susie Ricketts

  Rainbow by Faye Tyreman

  The White Dress by Marc Smith

  Imagined by Olivia Waring

  Walk of Shame by James Faktor

  The Circle by Michael Walkden

  Come The Revolution by Caroline Moore

  Dvořák by Rebecca Hemsley

  Tsunami by Gavrielle Groves-Gidney

  The Jeremy Kole Show by Tim James

  Water Creature by Anya Benson

  Wings by Elliot Brooks

  Emmeline by Olivia Waring

  His Garden by Sue Smith

  Slip by Jina Foo

  Coventry – 14th November 1940 by Sarah Williams

  Escape Lane Ahead by Nicola Hargrave

  in-TRANSIT by Anthony Levin

  Autumn in London by Fergus Tevlin

  London’s Red Buses by Mosope Adekola