by Helen Ivory | Aug 17, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Lost and Slaughtered Sisters The cruel stepmother, the Beast, I read of them, and other grimmer tales but, said mother, some are too nasty, just don’t bother with those. That last one, the Bloody Chamber or the Forbidden Room, I...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 16, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Day Off Vultures don’t fly on Sundays, it’s their day off. No use saying you’d like to see them flying about, they won’t do it, haven’t for ages. I can tell you where they are – they’re down by the disused railway hanging out, walking up and...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 15, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Clocking off from Sankeys This young man’s veins run with smelted iron. Shift ends. Furnace bellows push him home. He feels for his key in the oil worn bag rummages for fags wedged between Sketchpad and empty sandwich tin. Lighting on the...
by Kate Birch | Aug 14, 2023 | Video
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili Open the rock. There, by the river where a streak of blood is so thin it cannot be alarming. Split the rock in half and you will find cooked ham, bubbling white fat and a small piece of me. There, by your milky feet are certain...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 14, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Out Of Bounds The sweet shop, for starters. Dabs, dibs, Creamola Foam, anything with a fizz. The maids upstairs in their own dormitory, who passed us a copy of Modern Sunbathing. Travelling too far beyond the cricket pavilion, where temptation...
