by Helen Ivory | Aug 9, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Behind me But off the highway – who is it? His track is lost in the undergrowth, the bushes close together behind him. The grass straightens up, the wilderness swallows him – Goethe: ‘Winter Journey in the Harz’ The fleeting shadow that I cast,...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 8, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Leuacanthemum Vulgare and a Cow in Kyyjavi, Central Finland (From a photograph on Wikipedia, with acknowledgements) The photograph catches one ox-eye daisy in sun in a meadow in Kyyjärvi and a brown and white cow slouching up to pose, view...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 7, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Lit up They lift sweetie-sharp glow-stars on tips of licked fingers, glue them, neon scabs, to the inside of her skull – she is lit. Colour-studded, so damned pretty – a reverse Easter egg for the cracking. The grit-stars shoot all night: there is...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 6, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
PSALM 72 Since we’ve ‘bitten The dust’ Our jaws have Grown The most Improbable Prose Garden. Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a novel, & a libretto. Of mixed ancestry...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 5, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
from United We stand The Commute 6 o’clock. I would, usually, run home from work at WaterLinks. Mum said, ‘Don’t’. ‘Don’t run home from work today’, but I still didn’t feel unsafe. ‘In a record breaking 18 hours, Birmingham saw widespread violence and...
