by Helen Ivory | Oct 2, 2021 | Featured, News
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Jacqueline Saphra, Matthew Howard and Desree on Sunday 3rd October at 4pm BST. This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin...
by Desree | Oct 1, 2021 | Featured, Word & Image
Coffin Path Martin Rieser is both a poet and visual artist. His interactive installations based on his poetry have been shown around the world, including Understanding Echo shown in Japan 2002, Hosts Bath Abbey...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 1, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
It It is the singularity of black holes a swarm of hummingbird hawk-moths the insatiable hunger of caterpillars smile of a camel, song of a nightingale the moon frail as the edge of a fingernail – It is dirty as a clam, economical as ants dark...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 30, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Tones A story in three remembered voices These were the voices which really seemed to shift things. She went, in her finals year, to a surgery, painted pre-war brown and cream, along from the Mumbles pier. There she heard the fat doctor, beaming...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 29, 2021 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Four Haiku * a date with myself inside the fortune cookie a love note * migraine… the storm fails to subside * museum tour my husband lingers at the kamasutra painting * renovation I refuse to remove the pigeon’s nest ...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 28, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Outcrops Heaps topped by smaller rocks. The raffish angles of designer boulders. Jenga towers of tipsy stone. Lizard colony. Ombligo de Venus. Navelwort in paradise. Darkness; damp. Foxgloved fissures. Small pools filling fingerholds: finger...
