by Helen Ivory | Aug 24, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Abigail Ottley writes poetry and short fiction from her home in Penzance. As an older woman writer with a passion for history, she usually has at least one foot in the past. facebook.com/abigailelizabethottley...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 23, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Mark Connors is a poet from Leeds. Life is a Long Song was published by OWF Press in 2015, Nothing is Meant to be Broken by Stairwell Books in 2017. Optics was published by YAFFLE in 2019 and After in 2021. www.markconnors.co.uk.
by Helen Ivory | Aug 22, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
The Semi-Fast Service to 1969 I catch snatches of serviced apartment blocks being unbuilt, rows of terraced houses resurrecting from a rubble heap back into their heyday. As per usual, when the train pulls in to 1999, I ease on a pair of swimming...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 21, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
petrichor it has been raining in the night both french doors are open wide cool damp air converses around my knees not one flower moves except to drip occasionally the gentle violin music flows over the scene of my third cup of tea my third...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 18, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Water, Guilt, Hemisphere You come in like water. I hear the ghost note, x, pp, turn to see you eerie in the half and half of the refrigerator light and my shadow. I don’t need another guilt trip, stumble upon a photo album, lose myself in a...
