by Helen Ivory | Apr 9, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Good Neighbour Irecê, Brazil An entrepreneur, he ran a butcher’s stall in the market. So you could see the meat he’d waft the flies away with his hand. We rented a house from him; he showed us the covered tank in the yard – that’s where the...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 8, 2022 | News
Please join us on zoom for live readings from George Szirtes, Moniza Alvi and Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old CoOp butcher’s...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 8, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Your artificial light gave out Your garden has no security, just the electronic sensor that whispers in husky unpredictable clicks that accompany the moths feeding in the darkness. To your mind, to my mind the world of the moths will be...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 7, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Neighbourhood News Hi, I’m Bill. I’ve just moved in to that little house on New Street (you know the one, it’s been covered in graffiti for God knows how long). I’ve got six dogs and a dead rabbit which I keep in the fridge as well as lots of...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Imagining myself as a bitter, old woman Here I am as old as you said I would grow altogether alone drinking tea curled up with a gossip of stars and the milky thaw of the moon – the thrum of the air still thrums in me as the flowers fold in...
