by Helen Ivory | Aug 13, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Filming ‘Blood Shot Silk’ – Deleted Scene (28) A string-section clambers its incidents. Fustian trails at an unshut hatch. Cut to… Candle-light across a jade wall – An exponential, mischief-making Star, Crystalline lipstick, hurled-back hair....
by Helen Ivory | Aug 12, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Clowns Every few years we get the chance, stroll down the road, tick another box or two, decide which toad will screw us over for the next few, break promises so easily made, take junkets too, raid our wallets with glee, those well-dressed few who...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 11, 2013 | Reviews
Text and Text Messages Inua Ellams is in demand. This collection provides ample evidence for why this is so. Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars is an energetic work, blurring the ever-diminishing distinction between page and performance poetry. First...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 10, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Harmonies We don’t listen to the music no more: the small sounds of the wind as it whispers through grass, or the well-deep silence of stars. People take it as hard, to see the flare of fire warming the glass in a morning. A new day shouldn’t be...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 9, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Sestina for Sujata I tried calling but you didn’t pick up – It’s an ordinary sort of day – Arjun is learning Hindi letters, Two languages colliding in his head. Taxes and grading swallow up the hours As March reluctantly draws...
