by Helen Ivory | Aug 6, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
PSALM 72 Since we’ve ‘bitten The dust’ Our jaws have Grown The most Improbable Prose Garden. Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a novel, & a libretto. Of mixed ancestry...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Someone Else The quilt still smells of you, but your bedroom walls are pocked with blu-tack, football teams all gone. They say you crossed the border, walked into Syria. You will head home, I tell them. As you used to come back from parties, drunk on...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Reuben Woolley has been published in Tears in the Fence, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, The Interpreter’s House and Ink Sweat and Tears among others. A collection, the king is dead, 2014, Oneiros Books. A chapbook, dying notes, 2015, Erbacce...
by Kate Birch | Jul 15, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks
Huge congratulations to Rose Mary Boehm whose poem ‘We didn’t know we were poor’ emerged as IST’s ‘Pick of the Month’ for June 2016, beating the runner up by a single vote. Rose is the author of Tangents (published in the UK in 2011). She...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Early Walk to Buy Bread Ficus trees line a long stone wall crisp on morning´s new page, in sunlight just sprung over the hill. Doves coo from the wires above a road all mine before the school cars´takeover. My steps, unhurried, follow as regular a...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 8, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Stars are Watching I can feel the blind eyes of night burning this bed. They believe I am as empty as the sheets that cover me. Wrinkled and unmade, our communal flaws are amplified under night’s harsh light. I glare back, spit my wishes in spite....
