by Helen Ivory | Nov 16, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
The Mathematics of Past and Future Selves There’s a small child sobbing, oppressed in her Sunday best, red velvet dress, patent mirrors scuffed. There’s a bear, one eye estranged, dangling free. There’s a shade on the path, looming up in...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Memory Stairs (Terry Kelly 1958-2016) It’s not a constant ache, more longing, email will suffice, something bridging this gap. I see your doppelganger in a city street: high forehead, eyes alert, searching for the book no-one else will ever have. I am...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 14, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
The Night I Ordered the Smoked Eel It’s late, late at night and I’m sprawled on the couch watching a DVD of Mel Brooks’ ‘The Producers.’ Somebody says, in a low drawl, ‘Must you keep picking your nose?’ I’m immediately alert: there’s no-one else...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 13, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Five Times 1 Mother rubs her eyes at the kitchen table. Says she’s drunk. The midnight light stares at me, and I wait for the shade of bed. 2 I am almost naked under a duvet of dried grass cuttings. The morning sun warms me in this hidden place,...
by Kate Birch | Nov 12, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
In 2011, IS&T publisher Kate Birch established the The Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship (MA) at the University of East Anglia (UEA); Kirstie Millar is its eighth recipient. Amanda Holiday is the first to be awarded The Birch Family Scholarship set...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 11, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Of All the Extraordinary Gothic Places they settled you in this wild necropolis. Angels bruised with lichen and frantic ironwork fastening down the decades. I have come to find your corner below soaring cedars hinting at their under-blue side with arms...
