by Helen Ivory | Mar 23, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
servant of the living word a chill breeze pours over me from the night window, what baptism should have felt like had God existed when I was fully immersed, decades ago, in a Wisconsin lake, a disassembly and then a remembering, a being shaken...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 18, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Crossing the English channel by foot- I’ll make Dieppe by tea-time. I push images of that great bolt of fluid streaming out of Shoreham sewage treatment plant, snaking towards Brighton beach, out of my mind, striding into the churned, murky...
by Kate Birch | Mar 13, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks
Pick of the Month time and February’s choice is ‘In my father’s pocket’ from Moray Sanders. Moray has written prose with the support of Creative Future for some years; through them she then won a mentoring opportunity with New Writing South and...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 8, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Stranger I’ll ask the Moon to do my dirty work. In the backwash I wonder if the Welsh God with his untidy name, painted her. I’m the colour of the rock. I’ll be a moon-glowing witch, with cloud-hands getting slowly drunk, as I shrink out of the...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 5, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Broken cable In the middle of the bright Atlantic Floating on the swell between island volcanoes Looking past reflective surface tension To silvered gas bubbles beneath catching the light And across the issuing rift A long snake of data cable Broken...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 28, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Steady My Emotion Steady my emotion Like the ocean on a stary night Like a tattered kite In the breeze Steady my emotion Let me be led into empty space filled with love Let ocean of white blood snake out from my Chest through cupid pierced holes...
