by Helen Ivory | Aug 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
From The Jazz Age The man in the high castle In his elegant turret attic, Tycho Brahe turns the page, turns it back, then back again. No matter how closely he peers at the drawings, or how intently he attempts to recreate in his mind’s eye every...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Dog In the dog days of this dog’s breakfast world, you remain dogged in your doggy ways; face licker, arse sniffer, purveyor of fetid breath, oblivious to squalor, fantastically lavish with affection. Incapable of guile or guilt, your...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 15, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
A Slice of Sonnet Go out with your fishing-net, and sit by the brook, the brook which holds a whisper of moon. Tell them that you’re going out to catch some stray salmon. Then, they won’t smell a rat. Ensure that it isn’t the complete, full moon...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 14, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
(Untitled) just for now (and I doubt persistence) the rubble of my mind is whipped up draftily in a flurry quivers with new direction with something like optimism Jack McGrath is a 23 year old writer living in Manchester. He tends to...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 13, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Rest Assured You won’t be there tonight sagged upon the stool of an emptying bar the same corner where you and Frank used to sit as weekends blurred by. Nor will you stumble into a club after hours to mumble your age, name and how this isn’t your...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 12, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Always and Everywhere after Wislawa Szymborska God may have been abolished but politics is everywhere and always. Your arrival on and departure from Earth are political. Even if you don’t die of it, though many do, politics is present at your last...
