by Helen Ivory | Aug 29, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
from Wave Diary Sunday I would have swallows nesting in my church and moss on the pews. I would have the tide wash in twice a day, to decorate the church with sacred cuttlefish bones and rosaries of shells. I would have the walls barnacled up to...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 28, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
For Dad After ‘The Lark Ascending’ by Vaughan Williams When we walk down to the canal, through the industrial estate with its units of noise and smell, past the field, so green I swear I can see every blade needling its way through the alert...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 18, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Waitress Brought Him the Menu his wife threw him out told him he was not handsome told him he was not romantic told him he did not earn enough told him he was a bore in bed pulling the pickup out of the driveway like a thunder clap over the...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 15, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
…And tell the stars Then tell the stars To take their leave too For within our breasts Shines the inward light To sail us through These fields of darkness Why wait for the gardens to Bear you sweet roses Or rent the cloaks of your hope To...
by Kate Birch | Aug 10, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
It came right down to the wire this time but Rebecca Sandeman’s ‘Epoch’ edged home to be the Pick of the Month for July 2018. This ‘powerful’ ’empathetic’ poem moved voters and marked Rebecca, in her words ‘usually a...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 7, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Empire The river has called for you. You step onto the light of day as you climb out from a granite tunnel carved from the mantle. The water has formed small grey pools in your feet and it soaks you. A pale spider is hanging from a hollow...
