by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2019 | Reviews
Setareh Ebrahimi is the most sensual of writers. To enter her world is to navigate a region of heightened sensation and dizzying intimacy. The mood of In My Arms is breathless, deathless, hushed, brimming with imagery that engages and intoxicates...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 29, 2019 | Reviews
“the ideal reader is one who is in love with the writer” Chris Kraus, I Love Dick the first time I read the poems I am in the library, trying to finish something that I am in the middle of the end of at that point. and we are practicing supporting each...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 7, 2019 | Reviews
‘It was just lying here the poem, the dream by the window sill’ These verses, from ‘After The Recital’, illustrate ‘Patina’s’ atmosphere: life is contingent, magical. Poetry tries to catch that, but is itself strange and hard to find. The poet...
by Helen Ivory | May 31, 2019 | Reviews
Chagall’s Circus is set out in five sections with poems alternating between pristine tercets that give each stanza room to breathe, and relatively short blocks of text in contrast. Poems are headed by quotations from Chagall’s autobiography ‘My Life’...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2019 | Reviews
For five years, Hilaire and Joolz Sparkes have been on a mission to excavate the hidden histories of London’s long-forgotten women and celebrate their lives in poetry. Thanks to in-depth archival research (partly funded by an Arts Council Grant) London...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 30, 2019 | Reviews
While I Yet Live begins sudden and bold; the speaker of ‘Obit.’ Announcing i will die in London in the neighbourhood i grew up in… When the poet writes: …sweat -ed tongues and pidgin song to cease Stumbling is put upon the reader’s tongue...
