by Helen Ivory | Aug 6, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Echo Chamber Women are bleeding in the back alleys, alcoves, covering their breasts and babies’ heads, working extra shifts for taxed Tampax and school vests. They smoke to forget, smoke for an excuse to leave the room, they are laughing, weeping...
by Kate Birch | Aug 5, 2020 | Featured, News
Time once more to choose from six excellent poems by six fine poets to decide who will be Pick of the Month for July 2020. Will you subscribe to Grant Tarbard’s delightful ‘The New Testament of Dog’ or be moved by Bethany W Pope’s very...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 5, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Looking An easy work of love taking minds to new vistas, easy work and simple things — say “you are beautiful” then remixing it to a new medium — a thing more plastic. My language is mostly verbs; it’s liberal, and...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 4, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
How to Escape and Other Theories For Mary My sister sings me to sleep from half a world beyond, and I sink into the pool of night with an earful of song. Outside, this foreign city closes and I travel to Dundalk – the Green Church, Castletown Road...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 3, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Holy Days I took you to see churches in hot countries. You admired the architecture, peeked inside the giant ribcage but found no heart, only empty pews for empty people. Sometimes, you strolled majestically up the spine towards the altar, like a...
by Helen Ivory | Aug 2, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Quite Contrary This was the only place she felt at peace, our Mary, in her haphazard back garden. She loved to tend it, plant things to grow, fashioned a path like rosary from stones. She rubbed slate together trying for sparks but found instead...
