by Kate Birch | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
When we launched January’s Pick of the Month, we noted that the poems were extraordinary and they truly are. But ‘Realisation about a friend’ by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana tops the list in this case. Voters admired its simplicity and its beauty and...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
(Untitled) Oscar had faith in me; I sang without breaks, effortlessly reached the highs and lows, was the voice on the love songs he wrote for his wife. When he fell in love with me, he bought me a bamboo flute, highly polished, an object of...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Death Rattle Back in the day, everyone loved a good hanging – curiosity gathered in the town square, red-nosed, waiting for the theatre of mortality to end. Today I attract the equivalent crowd – have to untangle my vocal cords from intrusive...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Shtriga The evil eye is when someone you love looks at you but they aren’t there. My mother is now a Disney villain; the sun has become an insult. She should be fitted with a blood-black velvet cape. Pale blue eyes in a hard-set face stare out...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The Art of Collaboration Whatever job he’s given, the collaborator is a perfect fit. A man of no fixed particulars. His views are plastic and always on the verge of being melted down and made otherwise. His life is a full orchestra of raised...
