by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2013 | Reviews
The Night My Sister Went to Hollywood is a debut collection from Hilda Sheehan, a mother of five who is the editor of Domestic Cherry magazine and works for Swindon Artswords. To judge from this collection, she is also an accomplished and idiosyncratic poet....
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Something More As much as music it was fog, as cold descending, as candles stayed unlit, as if daylight was more than daylight. It was not ceremonial, a stillness filling a doorway. A reverie not yet begun, pedestrians stopped, mediums stumped. No...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
A Failed Coup Now, I predict, that not-so-secret citizen will reflect On a catalogue of failure, ending a history of outrage Against the state. Papers you have passed me Reveal his alarmingly low scores in all But the most rudimentary civil...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Against Nature People call her a goddess I never could see it myself It was my parents pushed us together walking through mud in the country park but we gradually drifted apart I’ve not seen her for a while I’m happier...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Boarding In her nineties she begins to daydream shrugging off the rug and velcroed slippers to dig her toes in the tumbled strandline of the residents’ lounge. Standing, she watches while the morning swishes up around her, noisy with the squawk of...
