by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Capital ‘A’ Arches to begin: a gate, open to possibilities: a tree, sea, person, storm, war, religion, a nameless rose, as yet, unclaimed by labels. Are not divided by ‘The’. Lesley Burt has been writing poetry for about twenty...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
WHEN an attic becomes garret SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 and we move away the furthest we can from street life coughs and kisses handshakes, smiles of love, in love and fear makes us shrink...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Reviews
As with her previous collection, My Grandmother Skating (Indigo Dreams), Hex explores ‘the extraordinary with the everyday […] myth, magic and fairy tale’, but goes darker. It quotes Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984) ‘She was feeling...
by Helen Ivory | May 15, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Besançon : October 1991 Motorways in France stripped to their flesh of cars, of trucks with names of families who run small to medium fruit and veg companies near the Swiss border. France is mine, though – I’m almost sleeping, I know...
by Helen Ivory | May 14, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
A Field Guide of Our Skin This invisible body is a lithe sacrament of flora, bluebell petals reel dizzily from our thick drench of pores, lilac deaths reek in our morning peeling. This ill-lit musculature of fungus is in a state of grace,...
