by Helen Ivory | Sep 5, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
And sit with the dark In response to Stand in the Light by Elizabeth Rimmer And sit with the dark, when it comes. Smell the wax and the wick – watch its small orange tip glow brighter then fade into black. See the ghost of its flame on your...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 4, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Carole Bromely, Raymond Antrobus and Catherine Woodward on Sunday 5th September at 4pm GMT. This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 3, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Water & Mud The water in its lonely bowl beneath your bed, drawn from where? You were drawn from the mud in January. From the mud. Robert Hirschfield is a New York-based poet and writer about poetry. He has been widely...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 2, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Building a fire My mother is kneeling by the hearth tearing strips from the West Briton rolling them round her fingers. I see the Penroses had their Silver Wedding. She lays the twisted paper criss-cross in the grate, newspaper ink smudges her...
by Helen Ivory | Sep 1, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Childhatcheries Even I keep secrets shhh I’m in love with fingers caressing my insides feeling coils fiddling with my fan I live by touch by brink a contract between love grief & up to elbows nurses in soapy rubber gloves...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Aug 31, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
My Great Great Grandfather was a shipwrecked Swedish sailor, with sea legs and river hands, forearms like binding strakes. A stanchion of a man, he worked the waters of the bustling Thames, was ship’s labourer then Lighterman, loading cargo and...
