by Helen Ivory | Jul 13, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
My Previous Life as a Swallow My second cousin twice removed arrived in May at her old nest in the eaves of the ruined barn. I see her and her partner flying in and out on the crest of breezes we used to surf together, joining dusk aerobatics at...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Brigid’s Land Grab A white cloak that folds like a shopping bag, like a Pac-a-mac with pagan overtones, much larger when unfolded than a pocket, a TARDIS of a cloak. And when she threw it, opened it up, it kept unfurling, a flag for all the earth...
by Kate Birch | Jul 11, 2025 | Word & Image
Cosmic Spirit The beauty and fragility of Ryoko Minamitani paintings will mesmerise your mind into eternity. https://www.ryokom.com/, Instagram: @ryokom.3, Facebook. Xavier Panadès i Blas (aka The Poetry Beast)’s writings absorb the readers to the...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 11, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Patience I grow shoots, acid green; climb the walls, surprise myself. I dream of the way I would fall, the axe’s half-diamond. In the greenhouse, light and water make me tall, and my tremulous leaves scrawl love-letters on the windowpane. ...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 10, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Jigsaw It starts in utero, painted wood carvings thick as a finger, gift wrapped in nostalgia. Colour weaves in time, a voice with a thousand faces. Some velcro themselves, urchins of experience. Some are stolen. Onlookers swapping their gray...
