by Helen Ivory | Oct 5, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Incarnation Every time I conjure a spell, offer a prayer in your memory – ask for your forgiveness for things I did not know, I should’ve known – ignorance not an acceptable reason for failing, my inability to see things, the wonder of it all –...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Memory and Sky In the search for sky the slip of landscape: blues and greens, browns and white clouds of paint, lost black mines. The sea’s a beast, a wild gatecrasher and breaker of the picturesque. If you drag your brush across the canvas,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Numinous You see, there is this fold, and this ridge, and this sweet hood, and this little shiny popping button, and this smooth silver-glistening, and this depth, and deep, deep within, there is something that touches you back. Math...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
egg her first was almost translucent light brown with dark freckles laid in the pot of a dying nasturtium a virgin birth in a pile of hay dropped and abandoned like it was nothing special Geraldine Stoneham lives in South Australia...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
How Would You Draw a Bear? after Jen Campbell Grass seeds planted in doormat fur, fish scales stiff between tree-root teeth and the cave-deep noise of animal-sleep. Still, how would you know it for a bear? How would I? You would call it bear, sure...
by Sabine Wilson-Patrick | Sep 30, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
‘I found it particularly hard as a dad.’ Keir Starmer, Prime Minister’s statement in the House on historic forced adoption I’ve been staring at the blank page of this notebook for an hour. I close my eyes and breathe in for four, hold for four...
