by Helen Ivory | Nov 16, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Lockdown Release Suddenly summer. Parakeets whirled above, too fast for more than a glimpse of jade green glitter, an after-echo of cries Flowers leaned on walls, bright lips breathed fragrant calls the insects answered, wings a glinting blur,...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2021 | Reviews
Spoiler alert! This is a seriously good book, but it pulls no punches about the nuts and bolts of motherhood. No quaint, cooing here. Instead, there’s blood and milk; love and its shadow; the joys and the sheer brain-boiling frustrations of...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Haiku morning fog still recognizable children’s laughter * winter begins no place in my notebook for revised resolutions * first snow her hair shines in a new colour Samo Kreutz lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Besides haiku...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
What Matters Barbara Hepworth on politics After a long time with persistent, small movements, each one following the effects of the last, the shape becomes clearer, large chunks fall away, air is let into stone. Further in, planes flatten out,...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 13, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Hauntings 1 After the funeral, the coughs continued. 2 Care homes regain life at night. 3 Wait. The morgue will reopen soon. 4 They came asking for more starch. 5 For them, lockdown has just begun. 6 He came back. “Forgot the mask”. 7 Sorry for...
