by Helen Ivory | Aug 7, 2014 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
The winter-night-song of a Fenland home for Jack The chimney takes the note of sorrow Down a brick gullet, Tied at the...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 26, 2014 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
The Fernery Scales of glass, a crest of frilled iron, his baby tucked deep in shrubbery could stagger up on stiff metal limbs as pier crystal palace railway station, steam oil sweat on its green breath, mouth a cave. Pure folly, this...
by Helen Ivory | May 6, 2014 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Three Book Cut Up (2) Daniel Lehan: Former paperboy, choirboy, shop assistant, ice cream seller, chip shop manager, petrol pump attendant, pub caterer, post office worker, theatre usher, cleaner, leaflet distributor, front of house manager, t-shirt designer,...
by Helen Ivory | May 4, 2014 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
A sleep-trapped world could twist itself to other worlds we’d never want to meet; to worlds we’d run from if we met them; worlds in which we’d look at water fretted into gooseflesh by fine rain and ask what...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 18, 2014 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Woman Cursing the Moon (After Miroslav Holub: Man Cursing the Sea) Someone just climbed to the top of the hill and started cursing the moon: stupid moon, stupid...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2014 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Photo By Peadar O’Donoghue A Birthday Treat and a Last Bastion of Love I do believe you shouldn’t throw stones. And I don’t see the point in killing birds. If anything I’ve tried to save them. At the City Gallery our...
