by Helen Ivory | Feb 5, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Early-stage menopausal psychosis, Nyhavn hotel room, 5 October 2019 There’s a red eye / in the corner of the ceiling / yesterday it was a smoke detector / today it’s pretending to look elsewhere / seeking out fire The stilettos by the bed listen /...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 4, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Neşûştî / Unwashed unbutton my spine towards the shitty full sounds of istanbul throw my discs at the drunkard as the imam punctures our howls into the mosque lucid green walls may he hang us let us be examples is there anyone who loves like us?...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 3, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Question Mark I live in Question Mark. It’s at the end of the sentence. The road to get here has a sharp bend. It’s not easy to guess what folk who live here think. There’s always a slight doubt. The town itself has a querulous nature; people are...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 2, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Dry January I. to be like the box turtle, constantly contained in rigid carapace, opened and closed at will, always at home. to be like the lawnmower run till empty at end of season, no fuel gelling in brittle lines, awaiting fresh gas in spring....
by Helen Ivory | Feb 1, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Superpower You’d imagine they’d make more of it, that feathered superpower of theirs, leaping across this planet ripe with air. Take the wren: there she hops, perpetually earthed in topsoil and grubs, happiest hidden behind a rock. The sex-crazed...
by Chloe Elliott | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Smart House At seven the bed wakes you with a gentle vibration as the TV comes on. Like all your appliances the bed and TV are an integral part of the Unit and will remain until the SmartHome is deactivated (more information can be found in the...
