by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
House, Coyo Atacama Desert Two men talking about sex, drunk, splattering words like spells – they’ll bring in the culandero, the woman with fangs – Somebody has given herself prematurely. Somebody has fallen off a swing. Somebody knows the timing’s...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 20, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Second Generation Upgrade I take an invisible dog on holiday to the coast, with raven feather tied to my hair and a new iphone in my bag, my passport is ready for a quick get away, and I must look a sight in these snow-boots and sunset skin. I ask...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 19, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Dane Holt’s poems have been published in Poetry Ireland Review, The Trumpet, The White Review, Stand, bath magg, One Hand Clapping , Anthropocene and elsewhere. He is poetry editor of The Tangerine, a Belfast magazine of new...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 18, 2022 | Featured, Prose
A Strange Madeleine My paternal grandfather was a dentist and set up his practice before the First World War in his parents’ home at 222 Linthorpe Road in Middlesbrough. The house had a workshop at the bottom of the garden for the dental...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 17, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
The Arrow that Flies by Day (Psalm 91) To my first readers I present fragments, half- rhymes, vowels, words, somewhere a metronome beats time and we split the line into syllables, metric feet, then come the myths and metaphors, music sounds near....
