by Helen Ivory | Aug 27, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Seeing in Colour Canvasses rotting behind the shed An ochre sky, the sharp stink of linseed on a rag The temper of blood on white tiles A coffin glossed with slick tints of autumn leaves in oils Art is not what you see but what you make others see. Where...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 26, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Starve yourself I sit on my bed eating leftover soup from microwaved tupperware to stave off a dizzy spell. The plastic is discoloured from re-heating baked beans. I use a teaspoon so it takes longer, takes more mouthfuls. It’s a trick I learned....
by Helen Ivory | Aug 22, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
TIME, GENTLEMEN, TIME CARMODY: We ought not take too long describing the winds or the leaves that dance along them. Ah. BLIGHT: What the older man knows. That’s my objective. Then you tell the truth, when you shift your...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 19, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Mr. Wrong Can’t wear the red velvet skirt I love the hem won’t cover bruised knees, can’t talk—shouldn’t talk—to family don’t need them asking me again ‘why don’t you just leave?’ If the roast isn’t on the table at five o’clock sharp, then he’ll finish...
by Kate Birch | Aug 9, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks
This one came right down to the wire and at one point we thought it might be a draw but Rizwan Akhtar’s ‘Birds’ just edged ahead to be Pick of the Month for July 2017.* What caught voters’ attention was the imagery, the allusions and the...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Cowardice & I did not even as she was screaming, 2 policemen between her holding her like the edge of a dam edging into her onto her but that’s not my business makes me think too much all the times I was – the woman on the wall was...
