by Kate Birch | Dec 17, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
It was oh so close with only a few votes between the top group of poems but Elisabeth Sennitt Clough’s ‘Ague’ emerged from the fog to be the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2019. This intense, ‘evocative and darkly mysterious’...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 14, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Titles of my autobiography I have discarded -Everything I know I learned from my mother -Life changed the second time my sister went into hospital -Shame is a social construct -My first day at nursery, the teacher blushed when I described an aubergine -While my...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 10, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Peninkulma The precise distance at which a dog’s bark dissolves into nothing. Much further, you might think, in the snow-soft forests of Scandinavia than some dormitory suburb, or a small town whose sleep is still measured by the hourly chime of a...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 4, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
No more ordinary mornings There are no more ordinary mornings when Greenland comes pouring through your letterbox and the chickens have stopped giving milk, when you don’t have to go to the sea anymore as the sea is now coming to you. There are no...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 26, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, prizes and awards, Prose & Poetry
End Forget you. The ash of bone. The uncradled heart, leaky valve long scorched. Forget the unthinking arm that fell on my shoulder, those times we crossed the M6 flyover and you drove with one hand on the wheel and I’d change gear, rather badly....
by Helen Ivory | Nov 24, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Ague When it comes, it will scratch away the surface of Fen, release the secrets of our soil. It will sing its lullaby over a girl’s bones at the bottom of a village well. Its tongue will rouse small forms to hatch in the eyes of a dying mare. It will...
