by Helen Ivory | Jan 30, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Emily Wilkinson is an interdisciplinary artist and poet based in Shrewsbury. She works with collage, words, writing, paint, textiles and bookmaking. Emily has exhibited in Shropshire and Scotland, and was artist in residence at Wenlock Books in 2014. ...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 22, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Bit Parts I want to ask you, do you think we’re in a film? If we get our lines wrong will someone step out from the Golden Mile, put us back on track – though they haven’t done yet – the director’s a secretive sod. You smile. I like it...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 21, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Fish in the hospital the fish man told me secrets of life and catfish we watched malawis in a brief feeding battle while the catfish lazed nonchalant fin frond easing like giants through the desperate young crowd the catfish grow big from...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 14, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Catbird Dumtella carolinensis Gray pretender samples beats from spring peepers and circus jays. Coy poacher salts its song with crow ratchets and blackbird rasps. Droll plagiarist cribs calls from silken oriole and...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 11, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
When Stranded on an Iceberg When stranded on an iceberg in the middle of the ocean, do not squint while the sun screams at you. Remember that somewhere it is raining, that there’s a tempest swirling, a tsunami rising. Even though your clothes are wet, stand up...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 9, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Under the Volcano, 23 June 2016 In the distance, Mt. Etna rises, summit veiled in smoke and clouds. Below, fields ripple out, fold into deep blue valley. I sit at a café on the square. Passegiata crowds surge and swirl. Two men strum plaintive...
