by Helen Ivory | Mar 4, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Found text from: The Spoken Arabic of Iraq (American Mission, Basrah 1917) Lesson 1. The Ship Goes Against the Water Why do you speak against me? If you wish to learn Arabic you must live among the Arabs. There are soldiers all around the town. I...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 3, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Seacoalers. Lynemouth. 1985. A novel harvest of the seashore (Caught By The Camera. No. 27. 1935) Around the hooves of the blinkered horse the sea recedes with a zishhhhhhhhhhh. The cart stands axle deep in seething water. The blade emerges...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 2, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Remember Nirvana? Nevermind The child resurfaces. The morning has no colour yet. Some smoke signals sketch a message of constant and calm distress. A neighbour see the child first. It toddles, skids and falls on the dew wet street. The child...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 1, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Grieg, the Pianist and the Listener Troldhaugen, Norway Her fingers lightly assertive, she searches out meaning, concealed on the stave, feeling his music’s contours, the way a breeze explores the scribbled score of a rock-strewn escarpment, a...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Feb 29, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Syncing Sometimes it feels near again, when I jump and mime alone in my apartment to Taylor Swift, after an hour on my upright bike high on sweat and night through open window, gulping water, filling a void, thinking of new-ironed pale-green bedsheets, but...
by Kayleigh Jayshree | Feb 28, 2024 | Featured, Poetry
Jaime Lock is a poet from the Isles of Scilly. They have poems published by fourteen poems, Under the Radar, Signal House Edition, Broken Sleep Books and others. Simon Maddrell has appeared in AMBIT, The Moth, The Rialto, Poetry Wales, Stand, Under the Radar...
