by Helen Ivory | Jul 6, 2018 | Reviews
Susie Wild’s Better Houses announces a new, highly distinctive and exciting poetic voice. The subjects of this collection – a boyfriend mowing the lawn, an ill pet, a pub crawl – are universal, and give the poems an immediate accessibility. The author’s balance...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 5, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
toby is reading in a park toby is reading in a park. no, well – i guess he’s writing now. he left the holiday apartment because his friend wanted to meet a girl from tinder. tinder is like a menu for the bored. toby is lost. he knows he is in...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 4, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
A House for Tiny Spirits When I die, trap my soul in a birdcage With a little plastic bath, and a plastic bowl for food Wrap the bars in cellophane so I can’t slip through Because I will never be ready to go. I will learn all the right songs to...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 3, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
The Prize Until it arrives I have yet to learn to knot my tie like the sixth form girls – we junior girls still wear scrubbed knees open to the speech day sun, faces raised to the headmaster as his great tongue enunciates all that it is we have...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 2, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Shape of the Gap I give you the gap in my body shaped like a conference pear. You might keep it in a silver box or else in your anorak pocket wrapped in a man-sized tissue. The surgeon who gave me the gap said I was looking down both barrels of a...
