by Helen Ivory | Jul 2, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
The Guided Tour They are nothing but casual tourists, ambling, with their ice-creams and stapled pamphlets, happily careless of the wretched history attached to these ancient barracks; charred flesh and fractured bones, the lingering stink of...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 1, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Blood Days Break all our delicate cups, my love Shatter their bleeding flowers like you shattered us. I don’t mind; because I was that bad kid, the best student at the back of the class sleeplessly studying stoplessly for all the exams, writing...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 30, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
Beside the artist’s pool Small birds brink the garden hedge its glossy tall green no shady barrier more a plaything to rise up and over their gaze wedded to the pool’s eye where they execute one dip-up motion the pool crying its lyric of white and...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 28, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The Road to Kars Mevlana, or Rumi, Sufi poet and mystic, 1207-1273 spent much of his life in Turkey, where his tomb is still revered. Mevlana’s poems are also set to music. We’ve tried every trick. Gathered around the guts, black tubing,...
by Kate Birch | Jun 27, 2019 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
The 15-18 yr old group winner for the 2019 writing competition at UEA’s Festival Of Literature for Young People (FLY) is Maud Webster from City of Norwich School. The theme for this year’s competition was a poem of any length beginning with the word...
by Kate Birch | Jun 26, 2019 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
Ink Sweat & Tears is, once again, the proud supporter of today’s Poetry Day at UEA’s Festival Of Literature for Young People (FLY) and we are also very pleased to be able to bring you the winners of 2019’s writing competition which this year was exclusively...
