by Helen Ivory | Jan 4, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Her Yorkshire Puddings Every Sunday he insists on beef from Boggs’s butchers, a forty minute drive away. Mother has no respite from that blasted gas oven, her apron, or the vegetable peeler. Her Yorkshire puddings disastrous, until she fakes it...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Hard To Say What He Did It’s hard to say what he did, my father. His shoulders portaged crates, he captained boats in the night, chocolate eggs would appear which smelt of ChefChaouen. He taught me to listen out for bells and police sirens....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
An Orange in the Dark I rolled an orange across daybreak; I waited for the moon to ripen. I held you close, felt your ear in my palm As I paced the candle-lit coffee table. The biscuits had gone stale again As buses crept under the open window—...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 31, 2024 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Celebration Overnight, the dour hill has been piped; in its place, a thickly iced, shimmering slice of pink-lit diamond-cake. And now, drizzled with a jewelled tumbletrickle of sprinkles, I can hear it squealing, unable to contain its joy at this...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 31, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
a new year we will meet again on the other side Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her award-winning haiku collection, ‘Random Blue Sparks’, is...
