by Helen Ivory | Apr 15, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Mirror and Garden There is a river running in our walls. Tears erupt through the groan of bubbling plaster. A lunging silence beneath every floor. The architecture is discomfited by this clinking dew. It has no conscious account of itself. (We conspiring...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 14, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Talking about Ladders after Ian Starsmore There is a ladder angled to the roof of the world where blue darkens and you cannot hold the footing in your breath for long. You have a small window above the Valley of Flowers. You feel the odds of...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 13, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Palindrome Existence Sometimes when I feel alone, So I find a clean bus stop to stand by and wait, Perhaps the bus will remind me Of where to go Maybe it’s fate- I contemplate. Maybe it’s fate- Of where to go Perhaps I’ll know if...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Jumper He first appeared only in an eye corner, the image flickering through my open window like a lightning bolt would’ve, bold, yet fleeting enough to seem unreal. Any mortal would’ve failed, and glissaded down those greasy, pangolin-scale...
by Kate Birch | Apr 11, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Ink Sweat & Tears Press is very pleased to be able to launch the winning pamphlets from the 2014 Café Writers Commission Competition tonight at Take 5 in Norwich. During the course of the competition Jay Bernard and Jonathan Morley emerged as two fine poets whose...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 10, 2016 | Prose & Poetry
Noise Is in-betweenness a curse or calling? This is my shelter. Acceptance alters the map, boundaries erupt, erase just like that. The mind fans this fire: give me a furnace with no fan. Chasing cume they chase my misgivings.TV is home. Decibels...
