by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
STEMs When I was 12, I knew the weight of a human head. 8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (a bit of dark comedy). It grew from there. The curiosity. The calculations. But, perhaps, that’s not true. 4 years before that, The Magic School Bus taught me the...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Broad-blotch Drill (a.k.a. Orange-spot Daisy Moth) By what rough science were you given this migraine of a name, which starts as a spillage on the workshop floor and ends so gratingly? Alison Pritchard is from Derbyshire and mostly...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 19, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
A Rat Decides to Change its Place Disgust springs up from the guts to meet a sprinting lump of furry muscle. Only to be ambushed by a brilliance of nose, a skittering perfection of racing claws, Sleek brown legs, pumping from the stewed-tea...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
I Am the Dreaming Herpetogaster Chimera : Painting by Kathleen Bryson I Am the Dreaming Herpetogaster Chimera I am the dreaming herpetogaster chimera and I am part-and-parcel of the impossible animals project. My cherry-blossoming phallic self obviously dubbed...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Doppelgänger I’ve seen dozens of you about the Fylde, face all vape, fatigue, some wild sense of beard, black hair to border it all. Oiled up Kieran, out cold in the ring; pensive Kieran, pacing the promenade; I’ll have spent my own self in this...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
The Bird The bird crept up on him, threw its voice into an empty tree, he started to notice the aliveness of things, wondered how he had slept through his adult life without ever having inhabited a bush. The bird followed him into a glade,...
