by Helen Ivory | Sep 2, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
The Land & The Sea In the mornings the fishing boats collect. In the grey-blue mist of the nearly-light they arrive at the harbour mouth, their decks heaped (or not) with last night’s catch. Here the fishermen’s voices practice themselves...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 1, 2013 | Reviews
There are fifty-two complex, thought-provoking poems in this, Angela France’s fascinating third collection, all of them engaged with what...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 31, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Sign There is a dull grey shimmer on the surface of the water in the harbour and the same sort of restlessness you get as it starts to simmer in a pan. Although it is not hot, it looks as though it should be. Above the surface, there is a sign I cannot...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 30, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Listening to Arlo play his railroad stories why is the 60’s, 70’s American country music so often on the road, forever talking light rides hitchhiking across the land? they sing with an eye on bus-stops cold with horizons slung...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 29, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
from Voices after a Tsunami The Tohoku Pacific Earthquake (scale 9) and Tsunami hit Japan on 11 March 2011. Coastal A handshake’s worth of stress caused an earthquake, and triggered a tsunami; as if a giant bucket of waste water, left after washing traffic film...
