by Helen Ivory | Jan 4, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Her Yorkshire Puddings Every Sunday he insists on beef from Boggs’s butchers, a forty minute drive away. Mother has no respite from that blasted gas oven, her apron, or the vegetable peeler. Her Yorkshire puddings disastrous, until she fakes it...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Hard To Say What He Did It’s hard to say what he did, my father. His shoulders portaged crates, he captained boats in the night, chocolate eggs would appear which smelt of ChefChaouen. He taught me to listen out for bells and police sirens....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
An Orange in the Dark I rolled an orange across daybreak; I waited for the moon to ripen. I held you close, felt your ear in my palm As I paced the candle-lit coffee table. The biscuits had gone stale again As buses crept under the open window—...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 1, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Turn, Turn, Turn Again as wind whispers your name. Summer’s breaking down and a starker calling comes – leaves saturated with sunset before surrendering. Turn as a gray owl brushes past, baring branches groaning in...
