by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
He grows I gave birth to Restless, and oh how he prowls this house, testing, testing the strength of my walls. Pushing at limits to find weaknesses he stores for future use, careful with his words. He knows soon will come his time, not mine. I...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 10, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, prizes and awards, Prose & Poetry
Seats Before a table of white People, I stand with ballet Slippers strapped/soft soles Head pointed towards the angels. A dance, I commence. Pirouette Grand adage, en point Followed by flight as a helium Addicted balloon. Circling a table of white...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 1, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Blood Days Break all our delicate cups, my love Shatter their bleeding flowers like you shattered us. I don’t mind; because I was that bad kid, the best student at the back of the class sleeplessly studying stoplessly for all the exams, writing...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 28, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Road to Kars Mevlana, or Rumi, Sufi poet and mystic, 1207-1273 spent much of his life in Turkey, where his tomb is still revered. Mevlana’s poems are also set to music. We’ve tried every trick. Gathered around the guts, black tubing,...
by Kate Birch | Jun 27, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
When sifting through all the comments on our shortlist for May’s Pick of the Month, in amongst the ‘beautifuls’, ‘powerfuls’, ‘movings’ and ‘evocatives’, one comment in particular stood out. In response to...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 20, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Night Raider Creeping down at night to pillage the larder I am my own ghost on the stairs searching for Digestive biscuits, pungent oranges, hard cheese so I can sink in my teeth, leave a trail of crumbs, a waft of citrus. Mum will find...
