by Helen Ivory | Oct 4, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
We Play Rock-Paper-Scissors Every evening at the care home, I pull in two armchairs til they’re facing. Opposites, we never fist bump, high-five or touch each other’s vying outstretched fingers. The dictionary says this ancient game has many...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Gayathiri Kamalakanthan is a Tamil poet and producer.Their play Period Parrrty will open at Soho Theatre later this year. Their debut novel-in-verse, Bad Queer, is forthcoming with Faber. gayathiri.co.uk, @unembarrassable. ...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Swing Beam Assembly Take eight each of hex bolts washers, locks… it’s important to fasten these tightly. There’s a spanner you can borrow. Set the beam so the edge with holes faces up without holes faces down secure the rails. And now...
by Elontra Hall | Oct 1, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Glimmers Things have been rough lately. It seems impossible now, as the breeze relieves us and we silhouette peacefully under the evening beams kicking the dust as The branches wave on wands in the skyscape I wonder how I’ve cried so much When I...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 30, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Watching, January 2021 The new year slouches forward, unlovable, barely acknowledged but for tired, gritty eyes and a muffled scream into the kitchen towel. Pale moonlight streams through the blinds, watching the night in shiftless wakeful patterns, patience hardening...
by Elontra Hall | Sep 29, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Dehydration Never has there been so much interest in the humble tongue. It peek-a-boos from my mouth like the little man in a weather clock. The consultant’s quick look predicts storms in its fur. She keeps pouring water into my glass as fast as I can gulp it down –...
