by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Matthew Caley’s latest and seventh collection is To Abandon Wizardry [Bloodaxe, 2023]. He’s made a Poem-Film with film-maker Jesse Adlam...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 4, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Jenny Robb has been writing poetry since retiring from a social work and NHS career in mental health and children’s services. She’s been published widely in magazines and anthologies. Her second collection is Hear the World Explode, Yaffle Press 2024. X:...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 3, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Ballad of the Cobbler’s Shoes Rural Action Derbyshire charity reports children are doing P.E. in wellingtons. You try doing star-jumps, steps, or squats, in knee-high wellies. One at first, then in twos and threes as term ran on, turn-up for P.E....
by Helen Ivory | Dec 2, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
A Town of Shadows Ashington I was born in a town of shadows. The shadow of the black bridge, where boys would crawl, hand by hand, under rails in Beeching’s gaze, cheating teenage death by drop into the lazy Wansbeck. The shadow of the Charltons,...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 1, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Crushed She was only a little woman five feet nothing in nylon stockings. If I stood sideways they’d mark me absent. Lightweight in her youth the heaviness came later. See what you did to me she’d say, scar stretching red across her belly, this is...
