by Helen Ivory | May 14, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Cardigan Bay As a boy I wondered about the jigsaw strewn across the sand. The parts are taken by the waves, dad said. Salted and cleaned. I pictured the crab – pink, hard and quick to anger, attacking with a snapping claw. This flat, wet beach was...
by Helen Ivory | May 11, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
In case of fire exit building before tweeting about it. Do not stay statue-still with conducting hands those fidget thumbs whilst up the stairs the accounts team are inhaling smoke for the first (and last) time. Please scroll down the stairwell...
by Helen Ivory | May 7, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Find At the garage sale I smiled when I saw Emily Dickinson’s selected poems. Didn’t I have this edition at home? Inside it read: To Marie. Friends forever. Love, Alice. I was Alice—that was my handwriting. Was the woman in the lawn chair, watching...
by Helen Ivory | May 2, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Bird Lamp in paperfields and in the sky, a compression of long halls. Do you know how sudden you are how sad? Sadness being air or soft fly of a thing over dark houses. The sad dying voice of the bird is my dying voice We are the poem – Look our heads,...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 28, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Marc Woodward is a musician and poet based in the West Country. His work, which often draws on music and rural life and is frequently underpinned by dark humour has been published in various magazines and anthologies. Maquette Press published his chapbook...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 27, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Mental Health Animals Between us your depression and my anxiety; such slippery things to articulate – yet I try. You, a creature sat curled into himself, naked, muscled, not a weak man but a hare-man. Arms folded, long ears and face drooped: blocking out...
