by Helen Ivory | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Mushroom Picker Mushrooms grow well in chicken manure, but there’s a rumour the farm is experimenting with faeces from the local zoo. We traipse into the shed: a corrugated half-cylinder. I wrangle a ladder that’s taller than me, stuff blue...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Reviews
A joint collection from two widely published poets opens with, ‘Crescent Moon Over Cookworthy Forest’ which introduces their personal love story – hidden for most of their lives – like the forest and the flora and fauna that inhabits the woodland. The...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 14, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Off colour 1946: a green rabbit and a grey giraffe, crafted by her uncle in hospital in Palestine, where making leather toys was therapy. Good solid toys, and wipeable, sturdy in a toddler’s hand. She wobbled round clutching the giraffe by its...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 13, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Flashback One afternoon (in your next reincarnation) you’ll remember all this and laugh. Zoe Broome is a Yorkshire poet whose first collection, Back To Yesterday was published by Three Drops Press. When not writing, Broome can be...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Boy Goes Swimming Boy dives so deep his parents can’t see him, holds his breath pulling rucksacks of air into his lungs. Under the water, his belly scraping the bottom of the pool, Boy opens his eyes and just before the chlorine-sting he sees...
