by Helen Ivory | Jul 2, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The New Testament of Dog Dog, elemental creature delving in puddles, fully formed in mud, this body earth, all love without mechanism, he is the murmur that nestles into these delightful sounds of apocalypse. Enemy fire turns off the crickets...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Stars in Class Our teacher would give out stars – gold stars to the bright supernovas, silver for the hard-working planets, and none for the boy at the back a black hole that sucked in everything she threw at him and gave back nothing. The...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 30, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Sonnet A body longing how long? to be there by 10am FedEx promise a plastic box like for recipes or receipts pouring like cake mix in the rain. JT Welsch’s books Orchids (Salt, 2010), Hell Creek Anthology (Sidekick, 2015), and...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 29, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Chew Toy My body, my stomach, my chest is a ball A dog runs after it and Occasionally gives it a little chew It’s that lurching feeling That sinking A mix of fluttery anxious butterflies And deep sorrow Heart races and mind is overactive All you want to...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 28, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
The News is in The news is in. Grey fears can go away now. These flames are black and green, the colours of disease. It isn’t true! But only because I keep my eyes closed. If I open them, the wall offers an Arctic ferment of blues, the ceiling is...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 27, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Join us for a live zoom reading from Stuart Ross and Bloodaxe poet Clare Shaw in our new occasional ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home. The reading will take place on Sunday 28th June, 4pm GMT, 11am...
