by Kate Birch | Nov 16, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks
Phil Powrie’s ‘The night that takes our shape’, an ‘evocative, melancholy and beautiful’ poem is a much deserved Pick of the Month for October 2017. This dark and haunting poem struck a chord with many who felt it was one for our...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 12, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Chorus from The Returning We are the people, the nation and the state We are the inscriptions, the documents The declarations, the pomp and the circumstance, The structures of being, the bedrock of commerce The official face of the face in...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 2, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Reconnaître I want to remember the way back. It seems Orion has the compass’ foot, Swinging his other leg out into the dark With the confidence of a man who walks on stars. I use the skills of the corncrake tonight. I need to remember in the...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 23, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
March 1999 Everyone is panicking about millennial catastrophe, anticipating computer failure on a global scale. All the clocks will stop, North, South, East, West; the moon, sun, oceans, will descend to chaos. With everything that’s going on...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 21, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Portrait of the late Mrs Partridge I inhabit the rough drawings of numberless wild places which camouflage my handsome brindle rougey linen plumage and faintly jewelled russet feather boa My chestnut hair is blown upwards like whirring flames...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 19, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Party He slips into the house, puts his pack of beer on the kitchen table, takes a can and walks from room to room, staying a while in the back room. The IKEA furniture’s pushed against the walls exposing a floor of wooden panels. He...
