by Helen Ivory | Jan 31, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Dolphin For Lucy They put me out to sea, following the students on their dinghies. Other adults bark orders about unfamiliar ropes and sails. Some kids dangle their fingers overboard, the bravest allowing their boats to take them towards a pointed rock on the...
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 29, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Alcluith From cobbler shop to castle I follow the Leven’s path by a row of bilious bobbins curfuffle of white feather over sand, dent and hummock the skitter-scuff of shingle to a ridge bolstered by slate wired for the cuff of the Clyde – whipped...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 28, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Shark Bait Hoisted high, I gape mouth open, skywards. My teeth flash white instilling fear in unprepared passers-by. I could dive off the fishmonger’s frontage take a satisfying bite. It is a sad end to my glory days in the deep but at least I am remembered...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 26, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Avocet You look like a bird making the best of a bad situation – someone stole your legs and replaced them with a pair of blue-grey stilts that seem to have autonomy. A gust of wind buffets white feathers and you teeter but hold your...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 25, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Donkey Through tantrum tears and sun’s glare I glance up the hill. Hooves clomp and hammer as down the slope he comes, skids on the wet grass and shambles to a heavy halt behind the five-bar gate. His screeching bray thwarts my daft intentions....
