by Helen Ivory | Aug 8, 2013 | Poetry as a Lifeline
The Company Some dropped behind sofas or hung on washing lines, snagged in peg bags and crowded underwired bras. Others overshot potting sheds and garden gnomes to break as precinct suicides. These were no pudding basin gangsters from the shires, they were sturdy lads...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 15, 2013 | Poetry as a Lifeline, Reviews
Rooted in Poetry Kops Returns to Russia to Assassinate the Tsar IN 1881, the St. Petersburg cell of the notorious anarchist organization Narodnaya Volya (The People’s Will) assassinates the tyrannical anti-Semite Tsar Alexander II of All Russia, the flames of...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 28, 2013 | Poetry as a Lifeline
The Collar It was dark and he pointed at the street. ‘There is frozen?’, the guy said in an accent. Hungarian or something. I said yes, the street was probably frozen. ‘But I cannot see ice’ he said, ‘How can you know there...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 6, 2012 | Poetry as a Lifeline, Word & Image
Goddess Topia, first of all round trees, was beloved farther than time flung seeds. Atop ladders, the master gardeners hand-snipped and shaped leaves and twigs, while chit-chatting about a recipe to make rose petal beads that won’t turn black, how...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 4, 2012 | Poetry as a Lifeline, Prose & Poetry
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and this week, Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the subject of the IS&T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year. ...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 3, 2012 | Poetry as a Lifeline, Prose & Poetry
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the subject of the IS&T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year. ...
