by Helen Ivory | Aug 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
First Funeral Fascinated by the priest’s teeth I don’t realise I’m kicking the pew in front with a restless foot until someone taps me sharply on the knee. I’m near the coffin on its trestles and a plaster Jesus whose wounds shed drops of hard...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
STEMs When I was 12, I knew the weight of a human head. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (a bit of dark comedy). It grew from there. The curiosity. The calculations. But, perhaps, that’s not true. 4 years before that, The Magic School Bus taught me the...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Broad-blotch Drill (a.k.a. Orange-spot Daisy Moth) By what rough science were you given this migraine of a name, which starts as a spillage on the workshop floor and ends so gratingly? Alison Pritchard is from Derbyshire and mostly...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 19, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
A Rat Decides to Change its Place Disgust springs up from the guts to meet a sprinting lump of furry muscle. Only to be ambushed by a brilliance of nose, a skittering perfection of racing claws, Sleek brown legs, pumping from the stewed-tea...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
I Am the Dreaming Herpetogaster Chimera : Painting by Kathleen Bryson I Am the Dreaming Herpetogaster Chimera I am the dreaming herpetogaster chimera and I am part-and-parcel of the impossible animals project. My cherry-blossoming phallic self obviously dubbed...
