by Helen Ivory | Jul 28, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Birds for you They scrape and bill for answers I peck evenings for small words finches and robins temper tones They don’t flutter against my desires Or rise from foggy halos like sentences blurring intentions only stare my doubts with little eyes over ponds of...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 24, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
time songs 1. night is unstable sometimes it rolls over you in the dark & flattens a secret population this thing this incessancy is a traitor.it counts to twenty-four & starts again 2 there is no time counting i’m slowly becoming dead like all the others hung...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 22, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Is Is what it is. This is not symbol. I am not moving ideas about these lines. The birds speak truth to the wind as plain as they can. It does not mean something else. It is what they say it is. Don’t look for any- thing more. ...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The wolves were not invited but they came regardless their manners were dreadful never cleaning between their claws after meals or their teeth at bedtime but they displayed a certain charm when finally agreeing to leave placing a single golden...
by Kate Birch | Jul 19, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News
Out of the mouths of babes. Angelica Krikler, who wrote and submitted her poem ‘Nature’ when she was 16, streaked ahead of her fellows on the shortlist and is IS&T’s Pick of the Month for June 2017. Voters responded to the beauty of the poem and...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Lotus Garden In a shifting drift of regulars and strangers, in a passing place of daily alchemy, a cook is orchestrating a fivefold composition: a stirring of the tastebuds, a flavour carousel, a virtuoso matching of salt and sour-sweet, piquant in the top...
