by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
The Voice, The Sound, The Song England’s education secretary Nicky Morgan has rejected MPs’ calls to make sex-and-relationship education compulsory in all schools – BBC News, 11th February, 2016 1 A congregation of girls rattling like...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 30, 2016 | Reviews
Three poets whose poetry contains a sense of place and being where edges, historic, water- flowed or rock faced allow us readers to engage with themes worthy of the time and effort required. Those of us who are moved by rock’s edges will empathise with David...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 29, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Fish Whisperer The loch plays the game it likes to play on windless days, double this, double that, sheep/sheep cow/cow rowan/rowan. Eyes twice-fill and only a frill of white at the water’s edge remains un-reflected. Splish-splash – an...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 28, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Blade Sometimes you can ride it, like in Texas when you put your foot down and we flew, the screen and mirrors all enveloping, sucking and flapping the horizons in its corners, and then just for a few minutes we were the vanishing point as desert...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 27, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Klonjuze Say it with me, that Germanicky-Spanishy word you made up to toast tea parties with cats and eyeless dolls, to celebrate our wins at fixed Olympics. No one heard it but me back then, back when you were my sleep and I your waking. Sharing a room we shared a...
