by Helen Ivory | Mar 29, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Night punting to standstill We could see nothing Except the fizz Of our cigarettes We did not know Where the edge of the water Met the boat, or bank Our eyes were shut Or not, we couldn’t Tell, and anyway We didn’t care We had no coins We were...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 22, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Night Crawler What a smashed glass heavens for her glossy body to break out into. Her corrugate, limb slithers her head emerges from black like Orpheus, leaving her tail – like Persephone, below. You call her yeth worm, lob night crawler,...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 21, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
from Shakespeare Variations The Mistress of Cawdor Her determined hand feels the stones. Their strength is in the coldness, or so she has learned from life. She has sought the life of stones with walls to defend her ambition. From the castle keep...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 16, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
The plane tree entertains the circus of doves Stripped of spindly epicormic shoots, the now-knuckle-tree jabs her skeletal arms over the snapped stale breaths of pale, orange shavings powdering the tree surgeon’s yellow truck. Her...
by Kate Birch | Mar 14, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
You looked, you read, you voted and the ‘beautiful and disquieting poem’ that is Claire Cox’s ‘The card given out at his funeral’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for February. Born in Hong Kong, Claire now lives and works in...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 5, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
[Beard of Bees] somewhere beneath my jaw hides a queen sleeping her tender buzz hums keep me awake I buzz pull out her children inspect their bodies plump and still wings gossamer thin I ...
