by Helen Ivory | Apr 11, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Pollarding An ancient art of tree management, in which the top branches of trees are removed to promote dense new growth, provide light to the understory & fodder for animals. On her first day home, she took to plucking the sky with tweezers—...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 10, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Man in a Room after Interior at Paddington – Lucian Freud. Which is the subject? Limp-leaved yucca reluctantly dying, the foreground figure in its stony pot? Or the man with a stare glassy-eyed behind spectacles, fixed into absence or...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 9, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
What is holding you back from building your wormery? You can’t say there isn’t the time. Everyone has the time when it comes to a wormery. Born with the right tools to hand. And no lack of wood – an affluence of pallet offcuts. Here –...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 8, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
House …4am and the birdsong begins, a wet January in a new city and I’m alone watching a man in Minnesota, murdered for protecting a woman from a fascist hit squad and the politicians are smirking trying to deny the evidence, saying no it...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 7, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Unexpectedly My neighbour opens her window for fresh salty air Along the lough the first ferry in daylight skims silently by A strange bird with brilliant markings soars by my window— I imagine a miracle that carries illness away. Tim Dwyer’s...
