by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2018 | Reviews
The most recent collection by Ruth Sharman, Scarlet Tiger, Templar Poetry 2016, won the 2016 Straid Collection Award. It is dedicated to her father and to her son. It is a substantial collection, featuring fifty-nine poems divided in three sections. The...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 9, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Aubade The sun gives the curtain the look of love, its light through a bride’s organza, as I leave your rapid eyes and wonder how far you’ve gone with the tramadol. Somewhere you’re lucid, scaring yourself I’ll leave you. The meds prolong the...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 8, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* lunar eclipse a moonflower on my way * abandoned bench– shifting of shadow of an autumn tree * a seagull in its maiden journey– sea to the sky * spider net– the light captured by mistake * Pravat Kumar Padhy’s...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 7, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Rhubarb ear-deep amid the petioles engorged and pink listening to the rain striking a timpani of leaf-blades my eardrums itch after that slither adder crowning the rhubarb its hissing wire-brushes my cochlea crimson stalks A...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 6, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
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