by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Coffin Road Boots and minds pound heavy up the steep grassy track. We speak of how many men it would take to shoulder grief’s weight, pale with effort and the thought of body within box hauled high over stone, ground and mud. It is hard enough to...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 11, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
from Ache After the world ended A rain of fire woke the night. Under blazing umbrellas a rat-like scurry ensued. Dawn rose bleak; the sun eclipsed by a black ring, a circle of surprise. From the sky came a red mare riding the clouds, descending on...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 10, 2021 | Featured, News
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Jen Hadfield, Adam Horovitz and Jim McElroy on Sunday 11th April at 4pm GMT This is part of our monthly ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old CoOp...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 9, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Kingley Vale Down the chalk track slick as soap. Wade the long grass in the meadow, bludgeon swinging, bag of stoats. Rabbit in my fingers squealing, into the grove of the gods I go. Old gods. Half-dead and never dying. Sucking needles, spitting berries....
by Helen Ivory | Apr 8, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Thumbnail sketches Look how it all goes pale when you pinch, and floods with rose as you let go. That dot is probably not a planet though, too big the curved sky too foggy. Possibly a snowy evening a chalky moon has risen east of a cold mauve...
