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By Audrey Bennett

I wrote this poem after returning home to Brighton after a period of particularly bad mental health. It is about the feeling of returning to the familiarity of home and the peace and warmth of being with your family again.

Audrey Bennett is a second year Media and Communications student at Goldsmiths. Outside of her course, she enjoys illustration and sometimes writing. She also runs a small zine club for young creatives called Tiger Zines.

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Editors comments- Isabel Judd and Louis Chapman

Audrey’s poem is a beautiful piece connecting to the notion of ‘home’ whilst being at university. She captures the uneasy atmosphere that many students feel when they come back to their childhood home. This piece connects to ideas of womanhood, body image and growing up, which gently provokes the reader to reflect on their own experiences of what home means to them when they move to university.

We really enjoyed reading this poem, feeling a strong connection to the notion of growing up, and the distance that puts between you and your younger self.