by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
Fantastic rugged imagery, metal and manacles, capturing essences of both masculinity and heart. It showed vulnerability, It was beautiful, spare, imagist. It was a reflection of men’s suppressed emotions. It was powerful, poignant, moving, beautiful to read...
by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
This poem was first published on IS&T on 15th July 2018. Rose of Jericho I am waiting for water; do not blame my Father though he made me a curling spine of dried roots. In a home not built for foliage he did his fatherly duty to pass on only what is necessary to...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 17, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Confessions to a neurologist When it started, I’d tip my chin down to my chest, loving the sensation of my body buzzing. I’d wake, fall to the wall, panic crawl to the loo, ask my wife if my palms were really burning hot I choke on nothing but...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 16, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Sugar Daddy The week before Christmas, my friend arranged a blind date for me. In retrospect, she wanted to replace herself with me. Oysters, lobster thermidor, sherry trifle with silky custard in the Savoy Grill. He flattered, flirted, cupped me...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 15, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
At Home with Long John Silver My mother told me to never suffer fools. “Never suffer fools” she’d say and she hit me round the head. I had an intolerable migraine that stopped me getting out of bed. “Never suffer...
