by Helen Ivory | Sep 23, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Pearl Harbour After Jacques Gaucheron In Hiroshima there are many pearl harbours burning in waters of survivors eyes and I have watched her oysters prise open through grief, a pale glaucoma where the photographed dot explodes that day in...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 21, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Swimming before the May We heed their banter in winds though we cover our ears. Ready to shark our flesh then flense to a clench of bare bones. Swirled in the rip they whip up waves. We enter aware who lords all of this water and air....
by Kate Birch | Sep 17, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks
We are very pleased to be able to announce that the IS&T ‘Pick of the Month’ for August is Itch by Barbara O’Donnell. Barbara has generously asked that her prize be donated to the charity Mind. Itch Stacks of National...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 17, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Barnacle Geese She sat all day outside the poultry tent behind a bric-a-brac table and sunglasses. She didn’t notice, no, she didn’t care about the sunburn on her shoulders. She quite liked the pain, something pink and...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 7, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Cassowary When I first loved you, shy flightless bird, our mouths barely touched. You left your red-blue scarf on the nape of my headboard, a slack talisman. A reason for your return. I could not bear to let you go. You kicked your...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 2, 2015 | 2015 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Double Take It was my birthday. In time-honoured wont I took the bus to the Rubicon for tea and cake with Uncle Pete, Master of Treats and Ceremonies. The Tea Room chinked and tinkled, snug with radio hum and finger crooked genteel...
