by Helen Ivory | Mar 11, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Julia Webb is a neurodiverse writer from a working-class background who lives in Norwich. She has three poetry collections with Nine Arches Press: Bird Sisters (2016), Threat (2019) and The Telling (2022). She is a poetry editor...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 10, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Ice Maiden speaks whale, speaks star breathes in — tight as a tomb breathes out — splintered crackle snow falls — a silvery kintsugi fooling no-one she wants to be alone with her ice shroud to think slow thoughts drink from snow’s thickening...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 9, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Anne Askew & Amber Heard Plain speaking a woman of few words, is a gift of God (Sirach 26:14) Rack and stretch her, loosen flesh from bone. A jointed bird will not squawk. Each turn and pull will tighten the denial in her lips. Pop the sockets...
by Kate Birch | Mar 8, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
34 Symptoms of the Menopause A woman somewhere is typing on the internet my heart wakes me up like clockwork. Now, another woman – my whole body feels like a bee box too small for the bees. At 3am, a woman Googles ...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 7, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
By the Horns At breakfast my man sticks a purple magnolia bud in my soft boiled egg. The flower opens, distilling to lilac. On my autumn birthday he wrings the necks of seven swallow-wings to gift me the witch’s butter wobbling like an orange nebula...
by Helen Ivory | Mar 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
The Lost Light Sometimes I’m surprised there’s light in dark places, those corridors, those alleys where you wouldn’t stray if you didn’t need or here in this prefab house I walk past once a week with the dog—left lost at the end of a lane to go...
