by Helen Ivory | Jun 5, 2026 | Featured, News
Again Again the rock is wet. Again no spring. Sheltered under the ridge the fence post leans where it always leans. Mud. A buzzard mews, turns in the wind, a faraway engine grumbles. On the ewe-path worn to here, close to the face of cold granular...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Knowledge She doesn’t know what she is doing. She chops and boils, snacks and sneezes, sits. Classical radio plays, imbuing the scene with comic dignity and wit. I close my eyes, wrapping truths in wool and wearing them about me. To be frank is to...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Ivy’s deference and not Ivy thrives despite dependency. It hangs on, has its other day. Ivy does not press its case. Its patient face is no surprise. It does not draw attention to itself. Its business is in secretive delight. It’s second violin to...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Interview with my sonographer How much water did you have to drink this morning? Did you sip your coffee without worrying about its diuretic properties? Was it sunny where you were? I took your advice about the elasticated waistband, the full...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Humanoid I was cutlery left out in the rain, rusty by morning, a side-slipping fiddlestick desperate for music, starved for company. You were a knockoff BOGOF version of a briny punk with a commitment phobia permanently out of your habitat and...
by Zakia Carpenter-Hall | May 31, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Kafkaesque Imagine waking up one day and discovering that you are a horse. At first, you might not believe it and think you are dreaming. Gradually, you would come to realise and go, hahaha! Oh my god! A horse? You would look down at this body...
