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Helen Ivory was born in Luton in 1969 but has lived in Norwich for nearly 20 years. She did a Foundation Art and Design and has a BA (hons) in Cultural Studies from Norwich School of Art and Design. In 1999 she won a major Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors for a collection of then unpublished poems and in 2005 she was given an Art’s Council Writer’s Award.
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Helen Ivory Poems
Apples And Stars
Your face is melting into her face,
the room spins three sixty;
there are birds and sirens everywhere.
The sofa is on the ceiling;... more »
The Breakfast Machine
Behind a wood sliding door
the whistling and grinding
of a great machine
brings us slowly, inexorably... more »
Night-Time At The Office
The solitary light
at the top of the office block
way after midnight
where a hand in the darkness... more »
Safe-House
Residents are ghosts;
sheet-covered
in every room.... more »
In That House
Every floorboard is a tip-off,
every door a squealer,
the telephone has your number.... more »
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Safe-House
Residents are ghosts;
sheet-covered
in every room.
Figures in armchairs
television news blazing,
sheets barely moving as they breathe.
In the kitchen,
a woman’s drape
marries her to the oven.
Upstairs, the sleeping forms
of children bedded down
for a long night.
Dust and ash fall inexplicably
not touching a soul.
