by Helen Ivory | Jul 2, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Shape of the Gap I give you the gap in my body shaped like a conference pear. You might keep it in a silver box or else in your anorak pocket wrapped in a man-sized tissue. The surgeon who gave me the gap said I was looking down both barrels of a...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 30, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
15th of April Saturday morning, I watch condensation drip down the window and steam rise from the brim of a blue coffee cup. Today marks a year since your death and I still sit at this same window, sip from a cup you gave me two Christmases ago....
by Helen Ivory | Jun 20, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Self portrait : diptych I It will do, the Polaroid’s black- &-white : but a ground of sky-like azurite with aetatis suae XX lettered in gold would better suit this curly-head in starprint shirt, his life set permanently to May, cheek...
by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
After a hard fought contest – it always is – Anne Ryland’s ‘stunning’ ‘original’ ‘vivid and unexpected’ prose poem ‘In Her Bones’ is the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month for May 2018. And it is...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 17, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Inside Your heart is a foot pedal on an airbed pumping away, as I feel your first kick at this late hour. My hand on the hillock; a creeper on a gravid marble sphere. Can you hear my voice inside that colloidal world? Was that a punch against the dark...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 16, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Letters to a Pizza Company Dear Papa John’s, Let me tell you something I’ve been thinking. I have some pizza concerns. I enjoy the odd slice on Thursdays. Once I’ve put the children to bed, swished out their Disney cups, ironed, and packed their...
