by Helen Ivory | May 21, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
‘Dolls cannot stand alone’ #adollslife You want the life of a Barbie doll— the pink dream house, fancy dresses, driving Ferraris, riding My Little Ponies, being married to a man as perfect as you, whilst having occasional trysts with He-Man. Those...
by Kate Birch | May 13, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
Perhaps it was the long hot days of the bank holiday weekend and beyond when most of you placed your votes, and many ran free with their own ‘Wildlings’, but Marie-Françoise de Saint-Quirin’s poem is the IS&T Pick of the Month for April....
by Helen Ivory | May 1, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
In Her Bones I discover her just off Pier Road, sitting on the bench that overlooks the river. Draped on the wooden slats, right femur resting on left, Agnes is completely at home in her two hundred and six bones. Relieved of padding and muscle,...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 30, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Noticing how The snow has changed us, softened our faces, a glint in our eyes. We perceive other differently; perhaps because of the way we drove more slowly, appreciating the need to take more care on the corners, or use the gears instead of the...
by Kate Birch | Apr 21, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Scrappedbooks China fragments sank into the ceiling pond. Drifts of weaponised magazines rose from the grass. Ochre splashed with primary blocks, exclamation marks the outline sharp, even through the brume. An upturned caravan echoes a tombstone. Pulped...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 18, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Standing on top of the National Museum of Scotland We find the roof garden. Its little patch of moorland, birches, heather so perfect it might hide grouse turd, quartz, even Tunnock wrappers. A mountain peak handkerchief picnic-pack pooled until...
