by Helen Ivory | Feb 18, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Potential friend Blonde, slim, like summer weather, I am by The computer desk in the library black beading: something ruffled my feathers her tired brown hair; Miss Ordinary bursting light bulbs in Catherine Kidson chasms scream perfect lines...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 17, 2013 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
S. D. Stewart reads and writes in a cramped city, even while his mind roams open spaces. Whenever possible he walks in the woods and watches birds....
by Helen Ivory | Feb 16, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
Angel Way Back 6am streets is heaven all white cloud mist fog morning and look out of the dense gloom headlights coming out going past straight out of nothing straight on to nothing (work no doubt) but all cars go the same way: nowhere same direction: nowhere...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 15, 2013 | Reviews
In her editorial to Issue 163 of Envoi magazine, editor Jan Fortune confronts a question which even passionate poetry readers must sometimes ask: why read poetry? In answer, she argues a...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 14, 2013 | Prose & Poetry
break up in the austrian themed fondue restaurant his shirt matched the tablecloth his leiderhosen didn’t match the shirt nothing fits, I said. you picked up a cube of bread, and buttered it you’ll get butter in the cheese, i said. you ate it...