by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2012 | Word & Image
Luna As a white moon rising-round
there in the tooth of down drowning; my seal-eyes weightless in the nurse’s face my nightdress holds the jellied rice
which cannot ride the spoon. Words by Helen Pletts
whose two collections, Bottle bank and...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Knife Hits Nerve Caught cold in dead november space between dark and dark, sky sinks like ether over crumbling consciousness, and there is no more pain or joy: simply technique, cutting through layers without feeling and behind the house where you do not live any more...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 11, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Tower Block, Syria bullet-hole windows balconies tinged with grey and the roof full of stones sunrise spreads and behind the sky booms and booms a burnt block close by smoke thickens to blue it moves like a demon tastes of mortar and blood Joanna...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 10, 2012 | Reviews
Smith / Doorstop Books ISBN: 978-1-906613-47-1 (hbk) £12.95 69pp This delightful and beautifully produced book has been a pleasure to read and has persuaded me to arrange a trip later this year to the place which is its immediate subject and somewhere I...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 9, 2012 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Ira Lightman makes public art in the North East (the Spennymoor Letters, the Prudhoe Glade, the Gatesheads) and lately Willenhall and Southampton. He devises visual poetry forms and then asks local communities to supply words that will bring them...
