by Helen Ivory | Jun 13, 2026 | Featured, Flash Fiction
Old Peculiar An Old Peculiar is slid back on the table. She returns to her book. The room is still. Outside night falls. This is her evening. Always the same. 5pm is when she gives up. She hoovers with violence. She hangs the laundry. She wipes...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Lesley Burt lives in Dorset. Her pamphlet, Mr & Mrs Andrews Reframed, was published by Templar Poetry in 2023, and Alice spins her Glitterball by Tears in the Fence in 2024.
by Helen Ivory | Jun 11, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
On sunday morning you lay together laughing She gets into your bed like when she was little. Flowers grow out of the wardrobe, moss claims the windowsill and a vine snakes its way to the bed post, climbing. You are laughing. Imagine she is...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
I had a leaf in my hair when I arrived the receptionist thought it was a hairclip I didn’t know how to tell her I’d been doing my pre-op under a beech tree, leaves drifting down like snow fungus like a great carved shelf bracketing the...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 9, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
My Dad Complains That The Hedges Are Overgrown and the word bemuses me, implying as it does the concept of excess in what can only be good. Why do we crave these straight lines and clean edges? The hedge itself is a border, a defining. A this is...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 8, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Between the Ears For Seán Street, in celebration of his 80th birthday (2nd June 2026) Molluscous receivers, would that you could turn your talents inwards, and pick up all that goes on in the cerebral swamp that separates you, with its...
