by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Someone Else The quilt still smells of you, but your bedroom walls are pocked with blu-tack, football teams all gone. They say you crossed the border, walked into Syria. You will head home, I tell them. As you used to come back from parties, drunk on...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Glad To Be A Dalek I’m not your average Dalek, You know the sort I mean, All bent on domination; Giving vent to all that spleen. I like to think I’m different From other Dalek crew, Who keep emotions hidden While exterminating...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 19, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
The Paper-Wasp I tracked her by the sound her mouthparts made: rasp, rasp, on a dry stick. She straddled it and worked her jaws, reviving something dead, collecting shreds of fibre. Once, in Egypt, strips of plant stem, pressed in crisscross...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
The Deer Granted, some beasts are quick. But rounds were cheap as breaths for him that night, and still the ropes were coiled like laughing snakes. I sewed his returning eyes to mine, unstitched, busied myself again. The pattern for a dress drew...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Reuben Woolley has been published in Tears in the Fence, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, The Interpreter’s House and Ink Sweat and Tears among others. A collection, the king is dead, 2014, Oneiros Books. A chapbook, dying notes, 2015, Erbacce...
