Helen Ivory

15/08/2011

06 | 16 : Andrew Philip

Last on the 06 | 16 front, here’s a poem from me, first published in 5PX2: The Melody at Night, With You Snow bound and determined to break out of the silence enforced by chronic fatigue Jarrett is at his piano again (the first time in let’s not contemplate how long for a man as
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19/07/2011

06 | 16 : Helen Ivory

For our third poem from the 16 August Fruitmarket readers, Helen Ivory takes us to the threshold between this world and the next: My Grandmother and Mrs Crow While she was dying her dead friend stayed with her all night. She wore a frayed hospital gown, and sat in a wheelchair. She was telling her
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07/05/2011

Veg Box Report #2: the Birdcage

The second leg of our Out of the Veg Box mini tour was the Birdcage in Norwich. We arrived there in good time and met Joshua Jones in the Waterstones by the castle, a meeting point chosen largely by our meanderings through the town to find the Birdcage. Josh took us to the pub, which
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