by Helen Ivory | May 18, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Motherly misery I don’t know why I look to my mother for her shadow never stays. promises are whispered soft as fur, then shed. I grow between hunger and shame, guilty for wanting warmth, from her body. she is not cruel. only miserable. the...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Patterned with cows I want to tell my mother, I made a successful loaf in the bread machine you didn’t know you were leaving me which has sat untouched on the benchtop since you went as Dad sat untouched on the couch I used your stick mixer, too I made...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
How to become two-dimensional Die. You’re soon reduced to a photograph. Lugubrious Co-op undertakers will zip you in a bag and keep you cold, until you’re moved care of Michael, with curly grey locks like Frodo, who has dropped too much acid in...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | May 15, 2026 | Reviews
Rachel Dacus writes ‘I would say that magical realism in poetry (and fiction) removes the argument of “likeness”. It plunges the reader straight into an altered world, offering only mystery as a doorway. It isn’t always an easily entered door, but...
by Helen Ivory | May 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
a grief of ghosts atlas bear black-footed ferret cape lion dire wolf eastern lowland gorilla foothill frog galápagos penguin heath hen irish elk japanese otter kākāpo laughing owl maui dolphin north atlantic right whale one-stripe opossum painted...
