by Helen Ivory | Sep 8, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Red wine fruit flies You came for the pear molasses on my kitchen shelf three tummies full of fruity goodness recklessly rolling around in this deep lagoon without any thought of how you might get out. Claire Aster has always been a...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 7, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Ask to know your people better When my father goes to Edinburgh, the hilly streets and crowds of tourists make him grouchy. This is his mother’s country. She is not there, he cannot touch the things she touched but he sees and hears what made the...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 6, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Cheating At Cards She slaps down her three shadows on the table and runs off with my shadow. Robert Hirschfield’s poems have appeared in Salamander, Grasslimb, Noon (Japan), The Moth (Ireland), Pamplemousse and other magazines....
by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Join us for a live zoom reading from Sophie Herxheimer and Rishi Dastidar with Support from Kevin Reid in our new occasional ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home. The reading will take...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 4, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
My unromantic poem for this unromantic time as the world is asleep like a spiral shell or like the maddening stairs It takes time and effort to unfurl It happens naturally though, for most, Through nature’s imperative Once we are old,...
