by Helen Ivory | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Lies From my window I watch leaves flutter. Seagulls stamping their feet, I play with my loneliness. I write stories, I tell lies like: “My heart leaps at the thought of love.” Mariam Saidan is Iranian/British and has worked in the...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Mushroom Picker Mushrooms grow well in chicken manure, but there’s a rumour the farm is experimenting with faeces from the local zoo. We traipse into the shed: a corrugated half-cylinder. I wrangle a ladder that’s taller than me, stuff blue...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 15, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Reviews
A joint collection from two widely published poets opens with, ‘Crescent Moon Over Cookworthy Forest’ which introduces their personal love story – hidden for most of their lives – like the forest and the flora and fauna that inhabits the woodland. The...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 14, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Off colour 1946: a green rabbit and a grey giraffe, crafted by her uncle in hospital in Palestine, where making leather toys was therapy. Good solid toys, and wipeable, sturdy in a toddler’s hand. She wobbled round clutching the giraffe by its...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 13, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Flashback One afternoon (in your next reincarnation) you’ll remember all this and laugh. Zoe Broome is a Yorkshire poet whose first collection, Back To Yesterday was published by Three Drops Press. When not writing, Broome can be...
