by Helen Ivory | Jan 16, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
what shows up at dusk moths of course, pale parings― filmy, restless dark swarf of birds homeflitting to perch-trees sometimes a hedgehog nosing leaflitter an owl wooing from the pines but mostly, stars which have been here all day discreetly...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 15, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Operation Alphaman It took a great effort and I had to bite hard on the stick to push the subcostal muscles aside. The skin had parted easily under my knife, though keeping the blood at bay with no one to swab the wound was difficult. This was...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 14, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
When one has lived a long time (After Galway Kinnell) When one has lived a long time alone and not alone your time become someone’s history and you have grown tired of yet another war and the world has it in for you simply for being wrong nation...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 13, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
I heard a rumour that Pandora moonlights She wears sunglasses in the lounge knives flexed and ready for battle It’s not Sunday but lambs need carving She’s a weapon of disruption unleashed to worm rumours where words have no walls Paid for all the...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Jan 12, 2024 | Word & Image
At The Ballet IV almost unbearable and brutally tender, every muscle stands quivering with inconceivable humanity Julia Biggs is a poet, writer and freelance art historian. She lives in Cambridge, UK. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Black Bough...
