by Helen Ivory | Jun 21, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Seven Steps but the stream itself is in full spate Dennis O’Driscoll The first stepping stone is nearest the house Preparing the second, I discovered roots, and an immovable erratic The third stone rocked, rocked On the underside of the fourth, I signed...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 20, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Dawn And the raven suited night, feathered at the edges with the pinking guts of morning sends from its shearing seams a flock of cloth winged commuters to gather at platforms, beaks towards the yellow lights of the Greater Abellio service...
by Kate Birch | Jun 15, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
Vicky Morris’ ‘Ghosted’ clearly resonated with many voters to emerge as Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month for May 2016. Vicky writes poetry and short stories. She runs groups and projects for young writers. In 2013 she made the...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 8, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
We didn’t know we were poor Sometimes we went hungry. Mother made dandelion salad and stingy-nettle soup. Potatoes and carrots in water with salt. Mother had been on the train again to visit farmer Ruttenberger. Left our last silver flatware with...
by Helen Ivory | May 29, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Ghosted It’s not like he’d planned to wake up after 23 years of marriage, to find the taps turned off, everything dried out on the draining board, no one checking the mains, bulb gone in the hall, the garden too barbered for its own good. He laced...
by Helen Ivory | May 25, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Pledge What to do? You sign it, as they all do, sign it in your childish hand, descenders and ascenders imperfectly described, a name, its capitals, its lower case presented in the ink that’s drying even as you gaze at it, drying as you think yourself...
