by Helen Ivory | Feb 4, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Dummies We ride the escalators in pairs upwards past the plastic palms, the static rapids. Our flawless skin shines blue in the half-light, the smell of palma violets hangs in the air. We dare not speak, nor touch, for fear of waking the blinking eye...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 30, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Emily Wilkinson is an interdisciplinary artist and poet based in Shrewsbury. She works with collage, words, writing, paint, textiles and bookmaking. Emily has exhibited in Shropshire and Scotland, and was artist in residence at Wenlock Books in 2014. ...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 22, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Bit Parts I want to ask you, do you think we’re in a film? If we get our lines wrong will someone step out from the Golden Mile, put us back on track – though they haven’t done yet – the director’s a secretive sod. You smile. I like it...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 21, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Fish in the hospital the fish man told me secrets of life and catfish we watched malawis in a brief feeding battle while the catfish lazed nonchalant fin frond easing like giants through the desperate young crowd the catfish grow big from...
by Kate Birch | Jan 16, 2018 | 2017 poetry picks, prizes and awards
All you want for December’s Pick of the Month is ‘the cumquats of christmas past’. This strong and beautiful poem by Ali Whitelock had a profound effect on the voters and, for many, left a powerful impression long after reading it. It was,...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 14, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Catbird Dumtella carolinensis Gray pretender samples beats from spring peepers and circus jays. Coy poacher salts its song with crow ratchets and blackbird rasps. Droll plagiarist cribs calls from silken oriole and...
