by Helen Ivory | Jun 14, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
House Share Mice make themselves as thin as envelopes to fit under your doors. I am amused, until a mother mouse drags her deformed infant to the middle of the room. Bald, rosy, twitching on the floor. I stop next-door’s cat from hooking it away....
by Kate Birch | Jun 12, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News, prizes and awards
A definitive vote (unlike another significant, recent election) saw Jane Wilkinson’s ‘Your location’ chosen as Pick of the Month for May 2017. Some of you fell a little in love with the poem, describing it as beautiful and evocative, enjoying...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 3, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Nature Plants grow out of her eyes Because all she sees in him is the beauty of nature The chants she stops in her day to listen to The air she exhales And the mud she wipes from her feet But nature is a vicious cycle Two seas mix, the water...
by Helen Ivory | May 29, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Theft is a winding but necessary route to the pinnacles of equality. To strip a flat bare is to fill it with light; objects usher in the dark. Few homes today are forgivable as the rank odour of my pervades them so burglary is purifying, an amicable...
by Helen Ivory | May 25, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Aegopodium podagraria, a Praise Song. Now, I’ll choose to love this bishop weed’s efficiency. I shall admire his knit-wire roots, tenacious crazing tangle- down to anybody’s Hades. I will hymn some centurion’s aromatic salad – grab that...
by Helen Ivory | May 22, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Difference The once-in-a-thousand-year-flood came and went. We listened as though blood were a tide our bedroom an ark. At dawn we understood the full extent of what had occurred: as there was no sun, we attended a critical mass in our...
