by Helen Ivory | Feb 3, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Question Mark I live in Question Mark. It’s at the end of the sentence. The road to get here has a sharp bend. It’s not easy to guess what folk who live here think. There’s always a slight doubt. The town itself has a querulous nature; people are...
by Chloe Elliott | Feb 2, 2023 | Reviews
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency (Bloodaxe, 2022) by Helen Bowell When I read Chen Chen’s first book, When I Grow Up I Want To Be A List Of Further Possibilities, I thought I was straight. I loved...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dry January I. to be like the box turtle, constantly contained in rigid carapace, opened and closed at will, always at home. to be like the lawnmower run till empty at end of season, no fuel gelling in brittle lines, awaiting fresh gas in spring....
by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Superpower You’d imagine they’d make more of it, that feathered superpower of theirs, leaping across this planet ripe with air. Take the wren: there she hops, perpetually earthed in topsoil and grubs, happiest hidden behind a rock. The sex-crazed...
by Kate Birch | Feb 1, 2023 | News
I REWIND THE SECOND MY MOTHER’S GIRLHOOD BREAKS I am below her when it happens: She let’s go of the banyan’s hanging roots, her body launched into bulbul’s arc on the upswing, so many ixora blooms clouding through her cheeks My mouth wants itself a perpetual hole for...
