by Helen Ivory | May 2, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Bird Lamp in paperfields and in the sky, a compression of long halls. Do you know how sudden you are how sad? Sadness being air or soft fly of a thing over dark houses. The sad dying voice of the bird is my dying voice We are the poem – Look our heads,...
by Helen Ivory | May 1, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
I Say This For All The Guys I say this for all the guys Who lost a love and got surprised This happens to most everyone And I can tell you boys, she is dumb G. David Schwartz – the former president of Seedhouse,...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 30, 2016 | Reviews
This is Padrika Tarrant’s third book, Fates of the Animals, following Broken Things (Salt 2007) and The Knife Drawer (Salt 2011), also published by Salt, the alkaline in Cromer’s cliffs, comes this book of very short stories that live in a...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 29, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Dust Kitchen grease grimed you into blinds, their venetian slats. With bowls of steaming hot water, dirt-cut of citrus fresh, I wipe you off wood, window panes, all the frames. I vacuum sofas dusted with your skin, run my finger across the table...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 28, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Marc Woodward is a musician and poet based in the West Country. His work, which often draws on music and rural life and is frequently underpinned by dark humour has been published in various magazines and anthologies. Maquette Press published his chapbook...
