by Helen Ivory | Aug 7, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Lit up They lift sweetie-sharp glow-stars on tips of licked fingers, glue them, neon scabs, to the inside of her skull – she is lit. Colour-studded, so damned pretty – a reverse Easter egg for the cracking. The grit-stars shoot all night: there is...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 6, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
PSALM 72 Since we’ve ‘bitten The dust’ Our jaws have Grown The most Improbable Prose Garden. Stefanie Bennett has published several books of poetry, a novel, & a libretto. Of mixed ancestry...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Someone Else The quilt still smells of you, but your bedroom walls are pocked with blu-tack, football teams all gone. They say you crossed the border, walked into Syria. You will head home, I tell them. As you used to come back from parties, drunk on...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Reuben Woolley has been published in Tears in the Fence, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, The Interpreter’s House and Ink Sweat and Tears among others. A collection, the king is dead, 2014, Oneiros Books. A chapbook, dying notes, 2015, Erbacce...
by Kate Birch | Jul 15, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks
Huge congratulations to Rose Mary Boehm whose poem ‘We didn’t know we were poor’ emerged as IST’s ‘Pick of the Month’ for June 2016, beating the runner up by a single vote. Rose is the author of Tangents (published in the UK in 2011). She...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Early Walk to Buy Bread Ficus trees line a long stone wall crisp on morning´s new page, in sunlight just sprung over the hill. Doves coo from the wires above a road all mine before the school cars´takeover. My steps, unhurried, follow as regular a...
