by Helen Ivory | May 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
One thousand cranes I want to learn how it feels to give birth in a tunnel in my home city to hear shelling through the night I want to draw straight lines not diagrams of molotov cocktails tourniquets or AK42 rifles or posters pleading for help I...
by Helen Ivory | May 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Mandy Beattie’s poetry’s been published in: Poets Republic, Wordpeace, Dreich, Wee Dreich, The Haar, Purple Hermit, Wordgathering, Clearance Collection, Spilling Cocoa with Martin Amis, Marble Poetry, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, Lothlorien Poetry & Book Week...
by Helen Ivory | May 18, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Birthday Boyo No sunshine, but plenty of coal to cosy up our terrace. Gran smothers extra toast with raspberry jam, and I’m drawing Caerphilly castle. I climbed that spiral stair today to the office. I was grassed up. Dapper Jones made me...
by Helen Ivory | May 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Gap The space between unrelated things like our ears and the top of the humorous as a measure of strength a simple gap of air that stops a wheel rolling back on top of you the wider ...
by Helen Ivory | May 16, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Martyr We’d starve sooner than eat with you, or drink; we’d vomit up, spit out, the bribes you bring and will not slake our thirst or break this fast. The stars, more sensitive than us, will blink; we strain our foolish ears to hear them sing,...
