by Helen Ivory | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
If you didn’t know what a storm is This thing will enter your perception with a swagger. Kick open doors, slam wood to wall, shake rooms, with the impatient knock of nature. Alive, but not exactly, as it fills the frame, flicker-lit by lightning....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 5, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
This morning the room is bright with snowlight and everything seems illuminated differently. I have to trust the robin’s snatches of song like drips from a melting icicle, the starling’s rush of wingbeats overhead. Narcissi’s tender green shoots...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 4, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Her Yorkshire Puddings Every Sunday he insists on beef from Boggs’s butchers, a forty minute drive away. Mother has no respite from that blasted gas oven, her apron, or the vegetable peeler. Her Yorkshire puddings disastrous, until she fakes it...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 3, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Hard To Say What He Did It’s hard to say what he did, my father. His shoulders portaged crates, he captained boats in the night, chocolate eggs would appear which smelt of ChefChaouen. He taught me to listen out for bells and police sirens....
by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
An Orange in the Dark I rolled an orange across daybreak; I waited for the moon to ripen. I held you close, felt your ear in my palm As I paced the candle-lit coffee table. The biscuits had gone stale again As buses crept under the open window—...
by Fathima Zahra | Jan 1, 2025 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas
Turn, Turn, Turn Again as wind whispers your name. Summer’s breaking down and a starker calling comes – leaves saturated with sunset before surrendering. Turn as a gray owl brushes past, baring branches groaning in...
