by Helen Ivory | Jan 5, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Hare Dawn. The sky a deep pink, mottled with clouds. Already it’s warm. I roll over and up onto my elbows. Blackbird clucks a scolding and I apologise for intruding into her morning. We go through this daily ritual, as if it were the first time....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 4, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Locked Out The sun burned orange and its touch Deepened from a careless brush To a firm hold And only you Could hear its groans As it dragged its curtain down the sky The red brick blocks Lining your street Darkened to red wine teeth And you sat...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 3, 2018 | Reviews
Gaps is the debut pamphlet from Jenny Danes, a winner of The Poetry Business New Poets Prize 2015/16. Comprised of 17 poems (23 pages of poetry), Danes’s pamphlet corresponds to the dictionary definition of ‘gaps’ as differences between...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2018 | 12 days 2017
Spinning tops in Bethlehem Pa was keen to be rid of me gave me the little boat just a board really told me to enjoy myself. Ma said I looked like a walnut all bundled up on half a shell. Me and the other kids out on the lake sliding on the ice spinning...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 1, 2018 | 12 days 2017
Resolution don’t fly don’t drive vacuum regularly concepts my dog can’t follow because, well, she’s a dog and I’m human, capable of reason even, especially, after three pints on New Years’ Eve though sometimes the harder the resolution the easier...
