by Helen Ivory | Mar 29, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Outpatient Take a half-shower Sit at the edge of the bath, feet wet Shower head unscrewed, hose lying flaccid in the bath Belching out lukewarm water over overgrown toenails Walk around the house bumping into things Giggle like a...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 28, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Island Fiction I could murder a cuppa mutters a knitting voice, her claws purling patterns the Fair Isle way. The kettle whistles, the brew as warming as a jumper – outside gulls rock n’ roll drunk on a burgundy sky. The winged ways...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 27, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The Opposite of Pygmalion She’s breaching the limits climbing the scaffolding hauling herself up poles rolling over the lip of the kick-board. My hands race like a card sharp trying to confuse the eye not wanting to let her off the plinth. I don’t...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 26, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Gift Dark from four, because of the rawness I buy plain chicken and some chocolate, turn back the way I’ve come to the pavement shrine of himself beside an alcove where drunks piss, fumble the sandwich handing it to him, “Here, have this.” One...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 25, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Reviews
Alice Allen’s first collection Daylight of Seagulls takes the occupation of Jersey during WW2 as its subject, but she weaves so much more. In her vivid introduction she tells us that she grew up there in the 70’s and 80’s. ‘ we weren’t taught about the...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 24, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Bus Stop Etiquette We roll up piecemeal, shuffled rush-hour pack in all weathers; fix envious glares into underoccupied kerbcrawl cars blaring rock, pop, classical, duh-duh-duh dance and dumbass ads. It’s Britain so we queue; eyecontactless, heads...
