by Helen Ivory | Aug 7, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Empire The river has called for you. You step onto the light of day as you climb out from a granite tunnel carved from the mantle. The water has formed small grey pools in your feet and it soaks you. A pale spider is hanging from a hollow...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 27, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Epoch And I can’t can’t do the 7:45 wetness on the bathroom floor anymore I step in it And my socks are sad on the way to work. Conduit Road is more miserable having items which weep unexpectedly. I’m sorry that I break once every 28 days. It’s an...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Rose of Jericho I am waiting for water; do not blame my Father though he made me a curling spine of dried roots. In a home not built for foliage he did his fatherly duty to pass on only what is necessary to survive. The night I thought I became a man he...
by Kate Birch | Jul 13, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
It is perhaps appropriate, in the middle of our two-day feature on the young writers coming out of the UEA FLY Festival, that the winning poem for the IS&T Pick of the Month for June should come from a young writer in the next stage of her process and be her first...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, prizes and awards, Prose & Poetry
Those wild, pre-Brexit days after Josephine Corcoran Do you remember those wild, pre-Brexit days when immigrants filled our seas with their bodies, floated death onto our beaches forced us to see images of dead immigrant children while we were eating our...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 11, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The pursuit of the absolute It emerges then disappears again; it come and goes; it’s there and then elusively it slips away again. Fuck it. FUCK IT! It is impossible you say, head in hands. It cannot be done. Nothing is ever finished, you’d need a...
