by Helen Ivory | Feb 28, 2013 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* My hat can keep out evil and radio waves, silver foil and wool. Padrika Tarrant’s novel The Knife Drawer was shortlisted for the 2012 Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. Her second book of short stories The Fates of the Animals will be...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 27, 2013 | Reviews
Imelda is caught in a thirteen-year-old’s world where sweets and a ‘vodka and Britvic’ are equally attractive, and nineteen-year-old farmer Danny Boy is both desirable and off-limits. The book begins with Imelda under the table at her mother’s...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 26, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Walking in Sound Life is pleasant. Life is good. Virginia Woolf, The Waves A simple life is not quiet take an August afternoon on a street near your home tumbling red roses sap rushing everywhere and birds telling tales in trees going on and on...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 25, 2013 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
An afternoon with the Fates After they cut the thread, I just lay there; each small spine-bone supine, searching the hard floor beneath me. There are no maps for moments like this. If only my bag could open its puckered mouth and give up an...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 24, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Surfin’ Safari for a Small Town Boy The best pop is like a rush of lust – Alastair McKay The deuce coupe threads the dunes, back of the sands: her daddy’s car, but he will understand that parties must be seized, she...
