by Helen Ivory | Jun 12, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
April Showers In the spring, we wait on overblown grass, trading false promises of a golden summer. I cry at the sight of swathes of daffodils, parading their freedom in joyful orbits of propagation. I cry over exams because my heart’s poison is...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 11, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Wu Zixu (after Hokusai) The warrior, Wu Zixu, tries his hand at writing poetry. Perhaps he thinks it won’t be exacting enough. Cocking his head to one side, he dips his pen in the ink, while at the same time holding a brass pot above his head....
by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2022 | News
Please join us on zoom for live readings Sunday 12th June at the new summer time of 7.30pm BST. This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old CoOp butcher’s shop),...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2022 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
* her black eye . . . red scarf muffles the sting of the north wind * muddy gaiters – Coniston Water in my wardrobe * lamb in the talons of a white-tailed eagle time of the tide Meg Arnot’s haiku/senryu and tanka have been published...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 9, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Various kinds of pin and their uses This pin is for piercing the tube before we medicate the cat in the fur on her neck. She hates us for doing this, senses we are coming for her with our toxins. This one is a safety pin. I open it, slide five or...
