by Helen Ivory | Jan 5, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
In Remembrance of Stars Past The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended crest and mouth. I stood in front of the bathroom mirror and see Pavarotti singing Lacrimozart by Salieri. In the park you...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 4, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Forever Spring inside the apiary it is always spring human beings and honey bees cohabiting pursuing life everlasting for our species which is the universe opening its eyes 50 per cent humidity 21 degrees celsius simulated sunlight cold and bone...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 3, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
We Should Probably Get Up Now but, outside, the world has paused: the wind has put down its loneliness, its fear of never being seen, or known, and next door’s kids have stopped screaming through the wall. The cats are curled up around our...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Interior My dear, I washed you out of my sheets. And now I sleep softly in them. My dreams are sweet and free. I opened the windows to air out your smoke. I liked it for a while, how it held the past in its wispy fingers. I emptied your cigarette...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 1, 2026 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
New Year I start the day early with a cup of tea. A new diary asks I make an affirmation, while cleaning my teeth. I have nothing to offer – Where did this despair come from? Yesterday I took my son to Casualty, for an X-ray on his fractured...
by Sairah Ahsan | Dec 31, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Christmas scents No Nordmann firs in Bethlehem. No holly or ivy. But pomegranate, almond, fig and olive trees to anoint with signs of blessing and peace. And houses don’t smell of Balsam pine but of frankincense that can remain potent for...
