by Kate Birch | Oct 11, 2020 | Featured, News
Our shortlist for September 2020’s Pick of the Month has a distinctly international feel about it, as we take off from Josephine Lay’s Gloucestershire and head for Ireland – K.S. Moore (via Wales) and DS Maolalai – and beyond to Tunisia’s Ilhem...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
That Night Why did the swans hiss that night? He comes from the river, he comes from the lake Why did the wind howl that night? He heaves it down, he hauls it in Why did the moon glow red that night? He seeks her out, he hunts her down Why did...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 10, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Here Come the Crows I drew a sudden dark line under it all. Emphatically, and with the fulsome flourish of a full stop dot. Knowing that this was not what I wanted: the rows of chimney pots, red-rouged and boring in the dreich, mossed and...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 9, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The Survivalist’s Guide to Love The personals sounded survivalist, after. We were still searching, but we offered love like an island someone may wind up stranded on. I have fish fingers, but no bread…There are eggs in my fridge I’ve painted with...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 8, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Mars is bright tonight These are my new cordless eyeballs: no gloopy strings attached untethered, loosed from my skull compact, lightly veined, two floating globes raring to take on the big globe – except instead they lose GPS won’t take...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 7, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The Vision came at night into where she dreamed, in through the nets it blew, to send her serene. Each weighty step had no burden now, the dark was all light about her in a glow. Just…there. She’d motion, showing us the place, where He came and...
