by Helen Ivory | Dec 23, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Advent Why wait? the supermarket asks (you know which one) when puddings ooze expense and calendars for Advent spill indulgence. Down the street festive lights jitter and twitch. Each day is inching shorter. Wood pigeons strip the hedgerow holly...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 22, 2022 | Featured, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas at the Poundland Plaza Under a concrete sky heavy with snow a zig-zag disabled access path leads from the car park to the mall across the Poundland Plaza. Hot air escaping through the sliding doors spirals a drift of balance statements...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 21, 2022 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Solstice This is the shortest light we have to live with and in every minute we feel the life left in its stem and the slow pulse of its fluids keeping the plant of the day just enough alive. Rebecca Gethin has written five poetry...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 10, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Field Trip Abercregan 1991 Even the river is dark . . . sun only gains entry through trees makes copper faces that turn as I wade. My net brushes tendrils from transparent cheekbones water framing each elegant pose: I want to put these girls on...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 9, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
This Oh So Bearable Lightness If you should lose this oh so bearable lightness be warned, I shall overturn your day, tear it apart, ensure it ends in the dark. I’ll mould your skin in sodium yellow, load you with enzymes till your gut swells...
