by Helen Ivory | Oct 4, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
We Play Rock-Paper-Scissors Every evening at the care home, I pull in two armchairs til they’re facing. Opposites, we never fist bump, high-five or touch each other’s vying outstretched fingers. The dictionary says this ancient game has many...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and producer.Their play Period Parrrty will open at Soho Theatre later this year. Their debut novel-in-verse, Bad Queer, is forthcoming with Faber. gayathiri.co.uk, @unembarrassable. ...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Swing Beam Assembly Take eight each of hex bolts washers, locks… it’s important to fasten these tightly. There’s a spanner you can borrow. Set the beam so the edge with holes faces up without holes faces down secure the rails. And now...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 22, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Shedding Annamakerrig It begins high up the chestnut tree with leaves on the twigs on the tips of branches where sap has slowed. Turning amber carried by the breeze they touch the earth, rest on the grass where autumn begins Tim...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 21, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Triplet 1. From this far-side apartment you watch jarul leaves darkening with the seasons, progenies from the shoots’ threads. Footprints of your ancestors beckon to you, the assemblies of daisies are blooming on the balcony. Sunlight drizzles in...
