by Helen Ivory | Jun 4, 2021 | Featured, News, Poetry
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Christopher Reid, Leslie Ingram and Kymm Coveney on Saturday 5th at 4pm GMT This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 3, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Demise We had a lovely time At the horror-house. I don’t quite remember When, now, only That it was the last day The flowers bloomed And the bluebells all but rang. It was like attending A colourfully black funeral. There was a bite to eat And...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 2, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
everyone’s version of heaven is different i’ve given up self-medicating with fluffy toy dogs and texts from sermonising men who tell me the average person speaks eleven million words a year there isn’t really an average though it’s their way of...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 1, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Weekly ritual Bathrooms were white, in a row, no radox cartons or bottles of Ulay, no toothbrushes sharing a pot on shelves, no trappings of family to wrap round these unparented children not allowed to wash their own hair. And they laughed at Goldballs...
by Helen Ivory | May 31, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Détente When I arrived home, the cat was already packing, said she had had enough – if not in so many words – stole a last glance at her coat in the bedroom mirror and left. Not as much as a purr for a week, though we noticed on Whatsapp she had...
by Helen Ivory | May 30, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Happy Verges These happy verges in rough grass that claimed us, flowers on the weeds where birds’ nests brim with delicate eggs where all adventures end in fields of germinating seeds while I alone forever wander I would not wish this journey...
