by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The card given out at his funeral has no obituary. No order of service. Just his name, curlicued and slant, year of birth, hyphen, year of death. Above that, an old print plate of his reproduced landscape-wise, its surface sectioned into eighths, each...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 29, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Rhine Swim When you slip into the river and float downstream, first swim a little, then tread water to keep your head in the air, then tip it back and kick your legs up to the surface. With your ears underwater, the world goes silent, and if you close...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 23, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Sisters We found her at the bottom of the garden like a dropped apple, held her in the hollows of our palms afraid we might spill her now that she was ours. We kept her in an ice cream box, lined it with kitchen roll, pierced the lid for air, made a...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 19, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
#WhyIDidntReportIt All he was doing was standing alone in the pool, spreading his arms out the width of the double lane, just looking, all he was doing was taking the point you’d just made, making it over again to the rest of the team, just...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 17, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, prizes and awards, Prose & Poetry
Off-Peak Single The turnstile jammed, trapping me half way through, casting me in the role of inconvenience for the queue that gathered in Fibonacci curves, bristling with smartphones and resentment. I scanned and inserted my ticket...
by Kate Birch | Jan 15, 2019 | 2018 poetry picks
*The word ‘beautiful’ was repeated over and over in the comments and, although it is a word sometimes overused when describing poetry, in this instance it felt just right and voters made ‘Christmas Eve tea’ by Catherine Ayres the IS&T Pick...
