by Helen Ivory | Dec 28, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas 1978 We didn’t ask him to play dead. His record was three days. But we kicked each other over like he’d told us then cleared the battlefield. We spied his advance, inch by inch, the big shoe dragging, polished beneath a sharp crease....
by Helen Ivory | Dec 27, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
The Angel Gabriel Visits Mary in Bedlam (Ecce Ancilla Domini!) After Dante Gabriel Rossetti look at the dove so wide a suicide against the wall wrap it up in the blue cloth I’ve been keeping it unwrinkled for such a purpose long blue...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 26, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas is the end of the world It took some adjusting but we’re looking forward to it now. Next door have hung the bunting out, lines and lines of LOVE and PEACE which would have cost the earth until we realised there was no point in money any...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 25, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Decorate our tree in ASD From Here to Epiphany I must wear four scarves, touch-whispery in tinsel, to wrap – no – not quite tight enough to cover the trunk in shine. Let me leave the room for my staccato happenings, test flickerings of white wee...
by Kate Birch | Dec 24, 2022 | News
