by Helen Ivory | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Hawthorn Joseph Bacon. Aged 24. 5 feet 5 ins. Dark hair. hazel Eyes. dark complex[ion]. Labourer. Born in Derbyshire. Trial of Joseph Bacon & Richard Briggs The Old Bailey, 1790 The first night you lay down your head in London there is...
by Kate Birch | Aug 18, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
The poem speaks truth ‘When young boys go missing was a poem that so many voters, many of whom are based in Nigeria, found relatable and relevant, found it showed a ‘truth’ that many of us in the global north are just barely conscious of, and it is for these reasons...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 18, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
His Last Picture (After The Martyrdom of St Ursula) In a courtyard off Spacconapoli there’s a Madonelle, outdoor shrine with a pale figurine, withered flowers. He emerges at nightfall, lights a solitary votive candle, prostrates himself at her...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 17, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
35mm Haul down the ladder and you’re in under a skylight casting a blue dream. Lino offcuts, packing cases, old 45s, brogues, spilled jigsaw pieces, hats. Here our cast-off selves come to console each other. We remember less than we forget. Under...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 16, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
The Song of the Scans This is the song of the cells’ soft throb, the quivering coherences, their shuffling the profit and loss of life, to have and to hold. This is the trace on the scan, clouds, miasma of tissue, the ghostings of bone. And this...
