by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Girl Awaits the Psychic Investigators They’re late. The table is laid with a clean cloth, all normal and neat. Our visitors, city men, may find it hard to navigate the path but we can wait. They hope to gather evidence of a haunting; whether he’ll...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 14, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Love is… …inconvenient. Love is untidy. Love is relentless, ruthless and rapacious. Done well, it’s hilarious, playful and redemptive – Gina Barreca (for Carrie) We don’t decide who we love. Who we hate, yes, who we’re jealous of, but never...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 13, 2026 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Alex Stolis has had poems published in numerous journals. His chapbook, Postcards from the Knife-Thrower’s Wife, was released by Louisiana Literature Press in 2024, RIP Winston Smith from Alien Buddha Press 2024, and The Hum of...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Heartbust: (Plato’s Allegory of the Cave) Someone is taking a photo at a wedding of their baby at a celebration. There’s a roar of a truck the hiss of a missile the boom of a dumb bomb. The prodigal sun casts shadows in your cave of someone taking...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 11, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Something (almost) understood Firle Beacon, South Downs These hills that look towards both weald and waves hold – in their homesteads, fenced and open land, trackways and contours – all that’s happened here, but hide their mysteries in riddles:...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 10, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Sandra Noel is from Jersey, Channel Islands. Her work appears online and in print. Her debut collection is Into The Under (2024) and she is part of Linger first in a three-poet series (2025), both published by Yaffle Press.
