Welcome to the introductory and experimental first edition of the St Ives High School Literary Journal.Everyday, mIllions of high school students around the world create works of literary brilliance; poems and short stories that should be shared and published, but which remain buried between the barred lines of exercise books and entombed in the growing pyramids of garbage heaps. The reasons for these tragedies are twofold; firstly, overworked English teachers often lack the resourc...

Despite the continued study of poetry in Western school curricula, poetry is often regarded as either elitist or inaccessible, and there has been a declining interest in both the publication and purchase of poetic works within the broader community. Despite the cultivation of interest within a narrow literary field with poetry journals and writer’s associations, poets have struggled to convert their art into a mainstream commercial product the way that authors, sculptors, or musicians have...

Welcome to the second edition of the St Ives High School Literary Journal. St Ives High School is a public high school on Sydney's North Shore in Australia. The journal is edited and published by students from St Ives High School, and its poems and short stories represent just a fraction of the emerging talent that is so often hidden away in school exercise books and journals.Everyday, millions of high school students around the world create works of literary brilliance; poems and s...