by Helen Ivory | May 14, 2018 | Reviews
Pagdin’s pamphlet, Caldbeck presents poems which are unflinching in focus, and confidently varied in form, as she explores her experience of sudden postnatal psychosis. The poems are thoughtfully arranged to trace the emotional and physical...
by Helen Ivory | May 13, 2018 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* late autumn places a universe in my hands a cup of hot tea * last night’s brown-crisped leaves scudding down the cul-de-sac autumn’s dry rain stick * the right to silence after hectic winds disrupt the first daffodils * through a telescope the ragged...
by Helen Ivory | May 12, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
trajectory, reversed or january sunlight on cinderblock buildings lives wasted but not yours and maybe not mine and it’s a long road from kandinsky to lydon and after that you’re on your own just water dripping into a stained kitchen sink a view of empty...
by Helen Ivory | May 11, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Friday afternoons the joy of Friday afternoons knowing that it will only be 3 or 4 more hours before our shifts finish and we can walk out of there with our minds tingling and all of the wild blood everywhere the sudden buzz that ignites at around 3 or 4...
by Helen Ivory | May 10, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
You eat me at So they claim you left for health and safety But you left your boxers on my floor and some innocuous noodle box Tail between your legs eh You eat meat but flesh makes you blush They say the same about my father but he is a better man My...
