by Kate Birch | Jun 5, 2012 | Word & Image
Helen Ivory’s word and image boxes juxtapose found and cast objects with phrases unearthed from the Arthur Mee Encyclopedias. Her fourth Bloodaxe collection Waiting for Bluebeard is due next year. http://www.helenivory.co.uk/. ...
by Helen Ivory | May 13, 2012 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Cirkus I can’t understand the clown but the red looks beautiful – gold braid bitten into the fibres. The lion tamers (ticket collectors on Sundays) have...
by Helen Ivory | May 6, 2012 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Black Kitty from Across the Street The archetypal black cat, perfect, green eyes gleaming in the dark, so black he forms cat-shaped negative space in the day, and at night simply disappears. Walks right into neighbor’s homes like Shin Chan, pissing everybody off. He...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 12, 2012 | Word & Image
Luna As a white moon rising-round
there in the tooth of down drowning; my seal-eyes weightless in the nurse’s face my nightdress holds the jellied rice
which cannot ride the spoon. Words by Helen Pletts
whose two collections, Bottle bank and...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 9, 2012 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Ira Lightman makes public art in the North East (the Spennymoor Letters, the Prudhoe Glade, the Gatesheads) and lately Willenhall and Southampton. He devises visual poetry forms and then asks local communities to supply words that will bring them...
by Ivory Web | Feb 14, 2012 | Word & Image
*Poem extract by Helen Pletts whose two collections, Bottle bank and For the chiding dove, are both published by YWO/Legend Press (supported by The Arts Council) and available on Amazon. ‘Bottle bank’ was longlisted for The Bridport Poetry Prize 2006, under...
