by Helen Ivory | Mar 20, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Prose
Sunday Dress Ileana loved to make clothes. Afternoons after school she sat at my worktable, arranging patterns like jigsaw pieces to fit a length of fabric. These skills I taught her, daughter of my daughter, because her mother was not around to...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 19, 2020 | Featured, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, Poetry
Hooking Up Civilization writ large shouts “all roads lead to Rome.” Civilization writ small builds the roads. The paper clip’s one of the latter, a civilizational bit player that resembles all the other clips swimming in the jar. Its...
by Kate Birch | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
We live in uncertain times, and that voters chose ‘Death Rattle’ by Hannah Hodgson as the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month for February 2020 not only indicates their overwhelming admiration of the poem and the poet but is also an acknowledgement of...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
heal with careful fingers i fashion unraveling blood vessels into nets that haul life to the surface over and over again Aaliyah Cassim is a twenty-one year old university student who enjoys writing poetry and...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 17, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The View From the Ambulance is limited, by design. Strapped securely the dislocation, the shabby franchise- ification of high street, signage blinking by, the discomfort: this wasn’t here before – is dulled. Everything looks old already,...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 16, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Gannets I drive from your apartment to pick up a friend of a friend from the train station, take them to Muriwai to see the gannets. It is a warm day but there’s a bite in the air. My passenger is dressed for winter. She removes her seatbelt on...
