by Helen Ivory | Mar 18, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Thorny (One Sided Conversations No4) after seeing Akram Khan’s Giselle 18 Jan 2026 to embrace you is like clasping a fist full of briars if your mouth was an envelope I’d lick it shut you can push all you like against the wall between the living...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 17, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Hummingbird Hawk Moth What were these fairies called before we knew of hummingbirds? Bumblebee moth because of the size? Reed-nose moth because of the proboscis? I fancy Garden-sprite, Hoverling, tiny Vanguard from the Realm of Humm, Flit-wing,...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 16, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
On Diamond Hill I didn’t think of you once as I climbed past stunted willows straggles of gorse there was no burning bush but when light poured through each stone step glittered and I heard crystals of song spilling from pipits’ throats it wasn’t...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Lavoisier’s Law For Mark Matter cannot be created and it cannot be destroyed. I think of this as I pour the almost white ash from the green plastic container that came in the post into the vibrant red metal urn I have ready. I place it on your...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 14, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Ceilings just as the night sky shifts beyond the minds of the animals outside the ceilings we are pressed beneath change in aspect & colour each evening they drop a little closer in rooms that carry us from one year to the next we float below water stains...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Notes from nature on how to survive this: 1. Learn crypsis and mimesis be a gecko or a mossy frog 2. Method actors sway like dead-leaf mantises on branches 3. Spikes are effective, mollusc shells cumbersome 4. Warning! sea urchins maim and poison...
