by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Food Match We recommend that Zaleo be served between 14 and 18ºC. Why not sip it leisurely on its own or pair it with tasty Spanish tapas, especially cheese or Ibérico ham? It glistens on the wooden stand, a black trotter pointed upwards as if...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
On Twitter after Kenneth Koch Jokes on Twitter Mostly I am with the man who said: ‘Missed the dawn chorus. Please retweet.’ Mornings on Twitter Are wasted mornings Poetry on Twitter You cannot find Seamus Heaney on Twitter Multiple Identities on Twitter...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 13, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
What is coming? Regarding the sweet potatoes on the wall; consider the texture of their knobbly skin and knowing eyes against the pitted stone; when a rough boy bounces out, bat ears, brown eyes, curled teeth, doused in dirt. Shrill screaming...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 12, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Boy Out picking gooseberries her fingers encased with possibility my mother goes. Beneath her striped shirt she carries in her small frame this thing called boy. Neither short nor tall, a pumpkin seed. Globe boy, floating in Chinese boxes. He...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 11, 2013 | Reviews
These poems consider many themes, some light and tongue in cheek, others dark and grim. Underlying them, sometimes even the most hard hitting, is a sense of optimism and an on-going joy and delight in life and love and all the nuances and richness of language....
