by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
From Lines by Kenneth Patchen #48 ‘Yet there will be peace in certain parts of the city; sonnets dripping like moss from the walls; women holding their gifts out, arms, thighs, their quick song…’ — Kenneth Patchen, ‘The Hunted City’ This body of...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Discussing Maternity Leave He sits behind his desk, hands folded across his belly, frowning over his expensive specs. His eyes, his shiny crown, his wedding ring. Oh My God, I think. Is he visualising it? Me, shagging? Does he think I’ve neglected...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
FAGGOT pt2 I am more than my shoes, Even the black boots I wear Day in day out to work rubbed smooth on the soles. I am more than the cheap-end shirts That hide my tits and that you Frown at, openly, at the shop, the park, On the bus after a long...
by The Repeat Beat Poet | Jul 15, 2022 | Word & Image
“Goodbye” – An original photograph, overpainted and embellished with natural and digital elements, with text culled from my book, The Language of Loss: Haiku & Tanka Conversations (Sable Books 2020). Debbie...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Into the Orkney Sky That spring, I learned how to fly. Willed my small arms hollow, thrust them into a long coat and made wings as the wind rose from plaintive selkie cry to fury’s register. I spread myself gull-like into the sea’s salt-feathered...
