by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured, News
When finalising our shortlist for Pick of the Month for November 2020, the one thing that we could concur on was what ‘a cracking month’ it had been (in terms of IS&T poetry if nothing else!). The current crisis, both its beginning and end, features in...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The brief invisibility of fathers I do not draw but here I do. Heavy looping lines. That scar of road. Weeds through the stones. The olive tree, persisting. Wild fennel, and him bent over it. The way that he inhales the leaves. Pours rice like...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 7, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
We Are Alike We are alike, you and me. We are alike. You die of love, I die of love. You die without love, I die without love. We live to love, We live without love, We live until we die And then You must die alone, I must die alone. You and me,...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 6, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The Nearly Times Once, when a group of horses bolted and reared, eyes white, legs flailing, trampling whatever was under their hooves. Once, wheeling too fast on a bike down Richmond Hill, tumbling off. Stilled on the tarmac, a human speed bump....
by Helen Ivory | Dec 5, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
5 Haiku Origami cradle songs on the drive home… my empty womb * my mother’s knitted sweaters- I unravel knots * tears- water raining into an empty cup * drifting snowflakes- I restore the fragile lace of my wedding veil * encounters- his world is shaped by her...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 4, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Every Girl’s Dream White egg dress black shoe suit doughnut sugary ring thrown flinty dandruff and white rice copy and pasted vows wedding receptionists are only here for the liquor vacancy signs is their twin eyes a head dress of heaven? A...
