by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Staying Put When you stick around for long enough, you get good at being in a place. You know the best secluded spots where you can watch stars or sunbathe on a rock, letting sunbeams soak through all your senses while you kiss or make flat stones...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2019 | Reviews
For five years, Hilaire and Joolz Sparkes have been on a mission to excavate the hidden histories of London’s long-forgotten women and celebrate their lives in poetry. Thanks to in-depth archival research (partly funded by an Arts Council Grant) London...
by Helen Ivory | May 15, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Bear hunt The mistake was leaving the window open an exit to fly to the forest at the moon’s invitation and track the smell on the sweat from the firs. Is she hiding tonight? Or following in circles there’s a meaty breath at my neck, I run until...
by Helen Ivory | May 14, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Alchemy of sleep When night turns to ice, and where walls turn to rain turn to sea, after half light turns to day dark, and where beds turn to urns and time turns to you, and sky turns to dust. Where door opens to field, and wild fear turns to...
by Helen Ivory | May 13, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Composition 10/ Pier and Ocean – Piet Mondrian a peeled eye prickling turned to the outside I am already here underknowledge poking through I itch with the shame of it follicles exposed how dare you (paint this)? clustered struts stand close and...
