by Helen Ivory | Apr 18, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Standing on top of the National Museum of Scotland We find the roof garden. Its little patch of moorland, birches, heather so perfect it might hide grouse turd, quartz, even Tunnock wrappers. A mountain peak handkerchief picnic-pack pooled until...
by Kate Birch | Apr 17, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
At Ink Sweat & Tears we normally would be less than sanguine about ‘Letches’ receiving the honours but when this refers to Susan Richardson’s ‘powerful’ ‘vivid’ ‘amazing’ poem which had such...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 16, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Coral Mother She was hard and soft, beach and rock, kids passed through like subatomic particles channelling dolphins, whales, sharks, tiddlers, tropical colours, grey and sombre, skin cut and skin kept in trauma; hair and loneliness sucked into...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 11, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Orchard No more greenfinch, no more treecreeper, no more sparrow hawk; hedgerows slashed to make way for roads. Orchards torn up for houses – confused woodpeckers still seek dead-wood and bug. On a single patch of grass in the midst of brick and...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 6, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Wildlings My wildlings leave tokens of love scattered like breadcrumbs, then shriek and howl to scare away the birds. He offers me bouquets of broccoli – fistfuls of Brassica from a moss flecked giant. She wraps me in sapling limbs and sings me songs of...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 26, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Blind Eyelids still sewn, wild kitten rabbit dip-hopped across our path: where mum, what eat, who there. In the field, crow blew at a hankied beak, crossed its legs, cawed bone pretended to read the Gazette. We pondered...
