by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jul 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Red-tailed black cockatoo (Ngoolyark) Kaarak, kaarak The red-tailed black cockatoos call from bleeding limbs of the blooming Marri. Chet, chet, chet, chet They peck the honkey nuts. Hard fruit falls to the boort and bilara of the djarlma floor....
by Helen Ivory | Jul 21, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
The Drowning We slept that summer in the small house Bedded in a meadow of foxgloves and thistles, Just a cry from the ocean — Everyone knew about the boy Dragged from the water onto the beach, His lungs pumped with kelp and fry —...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 20, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Extended Magic Cat Metaphor Once you disassemble it it’s all fucked up. Turns out just despair held it together. Blinky the magic cat laid sweets — paper-wrapped, coloured or plain, familiar or unknown like eggs for years, then one day Blinky broke:...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 19, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Panning His gardening cleats punctured her left knee when she stumbled at his feet in a sack race. There was talk of tetanus. In the holidays she pretended to be his nurse. She made sandwiches when he’d just eaten. In case he had forgotten his...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 18, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
On Sighting a Truck Named after a Planet The van at the end of my road has a name: Saturn Removals. I like the sound of that. No fancy intros. The driver steps out, straight down to business. He’s bigger than I expect and the ice-rings that circle...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 17, 2021 | Featured, News, Poetry
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Roger Robinson, Anna Saunders and Sarah Westcott on Sunday 18th July at 4pm GMT. This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old...
