by Helen Ivory | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Join us for a live zoom reading from Julia Webb and George Szirtes with support from UEA poetry students Tristan Coleshaw ( 2020 recipient of the Ink, Sweat and Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship) and Eve Esfandiari Denney (the Birch Family Scholar for...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 29, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Tomorrow Tomorrow the birds reverse. Owls swing from branches, geese fly bellies to the sky, and pigeons shuffle ‘round roads on their backs. Tomorrow twitter explodes. Soaring views on videos. Televised debates. Think-pieces. Memes. Tomorrow...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 28, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
You, with the Lego Grip around your Pint We feel you overseeing, through the thrashing of the dancers – weighing, sizing, rating like a coil-sprung cat. From the comfort of your bar stool, your scalpel gaze dissects us, discards the parts deemed...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 27, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Dressed For hundreds of years I’ve been trying to get out That door. The front door. The one onto the High Street. At the end of the Dark Ages I make my first attempt. But Gilded net cauls, caging my ears, Catch on the door frame. I try again,...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 26, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
A night at St Thomas’ Church, Friarmere At first I’m afraid of the church’s dark eyes, thick leaded lines drawn chaotically in illegible strokes against dull brightness, darkness visible within and without. I can’t enter here— In daylight it’s no...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 25, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Sunday Thunder Something is angry behind the blue sunlit sky a growl crows fluttering in confusion and the wind tugging at my heels The scowl overhead Night growl from the blackness beyond something is angry Something behind the sky is angry...
