by Helen Ivory | Oct 9, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Moor It seeped down from the moor smoke first air laced with flakes of ash dancing then settling on roofs, shoulders, eyelashes we dipped our feet in buckets then travelled—bleach clean— along those footpaths branded into land like stitches...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 8, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
An interview with a Cigarette How do you cope? Sometimes, I watch old movies where I am a symbol of rebellion and bike-sheds, of good times had, or a moment of pensive freedom, or a last request. Or I recall when you would call me Gauloises or...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 7, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Cindy Botha lives in New Zealand where she began writing after 6 decades of doing other things. She is published in New Zealand, the UK and USA. Olga Dermott has published two pamphlets: apple, fallen (Against the Grain Press) and A...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 6, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Anthropophony I’m tuning in to territories like we’d tune in to stations on the radiogram. The shortwave chiff-chaff with the dial stuck, the maudlin willow warbler, the blackcap trying and failing to be a nightingale. And this is work. In the...
by Kate Birch | Oct 6, 2022 | Word & Image
The musician speaks of the Pacific We are the something of sirens this, our urgent-sound: laughter deepening an acreage of littered whisperings; eyelash sea-greens. Steady me. In this breeze, moments come free. Place your hands on my shoulders and I’ll...
