by Helen Ivory | Apr 15, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Six weeks after I could taste it for weeks after the birth – the metal rust, wet earth, smell of the birth I bled mountains of glistening rubies so the walls of our house swelled with the birth I waited in bare blue hospital rooms to see if...
by Kate Birch | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
It is perhaps no surprise during this seismic period that our March 2020 Pick of the Month should focus on that technology which holds us all together even when it drives us apart. Voters found Sanjeev Sethi’s ‘A Factory of Feelings’ moving, relevant...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
She goes to Germany I go to Germany and spend time with Klaus but he doesn’t tell Sue. We sit outside and play cards, we take out old photographs. It’s the time of insects, like wasps, which persist and make me nervous. Picture his older sisters...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 13, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Something Sometimes Waking up I remember Exactly nothing Forget who And what I am, Forget why And when I look out the window See a blue sky A few clouds Go about doing Little of much And it’s good Great even But slowly Memory Starts to crawl...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Gethsemane You tell me that the Vicar had said that God wanted your child for his garden, as I sit making careful notes in your wife’s chair. I always sit in the chair of the deceased like a macabre party game, though the music never stops for me....
