by Helen Ivory | Sep 21, 2019 | Reviews
I should start by saying that, although I love being out walking in wild places, I am not especially a fan of nature poetry. I always feel that poetry rarely does justice to things of great natural beauty and that I prefer the real thing. However,...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 19, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Galloping Horses We caught a moment of your underwater world. Galloping horses, the midwife said. In there there’s weird fishes and a submarine with a rotating light looking for life steadily; beep, beep, beep. You like to hide. At first on screen...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 18, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
extracts from dog 4. Dog is an amateur astronomer, I feign interest,
he dictates the curvature of the Earth. He had me measure the world on his back,
the radius seemed bent as dog’s spine....
by Helen Ivory | Sep 17, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
A Moment to Tell You The last few ends of rain wear out on a window. A bird with no reason to stop rushes past wet leaves, the many colours of dust sagging. Even the grass is heavy with apples. I smell through the glass, just as I hear you...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 16, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Lying to my Therapist I’m good. There’s a television channel selling me photocopiers and it makes me feel good. There’s a political crisis in the Maldives and I feel good. The selection of plant-based milks at my local supermarket make me feel...
