by Helen Ivory | May 7, 2013 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Flora the Poet In Roundling time when days were young and she grew younger – Flora who dressed in blossoms of the seasons: poinsettia, pansy, honeydew and rose, whose dewy topiary hair was adorned with watermelon-colored dumplings and her face painted...
by Helen Ivory | May 6, 2013 | Reviews
Myra Schneider’s pamphlet What Women Want is full of riches. The poems are textured with images that keep surprising – a chair has ‘a love affair / with mustard yellow’ (‘Le Vieil Homme Assis’); the speaker ‘sift[s] feathers of kindness’ (‘Need’). There is both...
by Helen Ivory | May 4, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
November Skye Cut the bracken for bedding. If the frost comes first it crumbles, but the cattle still have rushes. These are the best days, work, not of necessity. I have the scythe, she has the fork. We always do this together, as if the bed’s...
by Helen Ivory | May 3, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Bookish 1 – Reading Rooms, Bodleian Library She trails her finger down the paper slips that fill the ancient catalogues until she finds the books she wants, then softly sings her way up stairs that creak like those in old romance, to...
by Helen Ivory | May 2, 2013 | Reviews
I wanted to like all the stories here more than I actually did – in other words, while Nick Healy...
