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Stepping out of a limousine designed by Joseph Cornell into a cosmos of its own, Helen Ivory presents us with a world where the apparently ordinary meets the enchanted and the haphazard. And that is precisely where the magic and tension lie.'- George Szirtes'What's remarkable in these pieces is how much the words are needed. How much the cumulative effect of words is needed. And that there are no howlers, dissonances, or bum notes, among the p...

Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is "The Anatomical Venus" (May 2019). She edits the webzine "Ink Sweat and Tears" and teaches online for the UEA/NCW creative writing programme. A book of collage poems, "Hear What the Moon Told Me" is published by KFS. "Maps of the Abandoned City" is a sequence of her new poems, previously unpublished in book-form.

The othering of women - from witches, to hysterics, to the victims in TV box set dramas - provides powerful thematic matter in this fifth collection from the Norwich-based poet.

The dream-like, myth-inspired poems of Helen Ivory's fourth collection from Bloodaxe portray the part-remembered, part-imagined childhood of the girl who grows up to be a woman living in Bluebeard's house.

What This Book Isn't...It isn't another book with a list of things to go and do because we know that you won't actually go and do them. This book explains why you won't and what it is that's stopping you from doing what you know you should... What This Book is...It's probably the most important book that you will ever read...It's your permission to feel good about not feeling good...in our society we've made it not alright to feel not alright ...

Offers a view of the world that is skewed, vibrant and larger than life. Here, words turn into tiger-moths or laughing birds, the Minotaur finds his Ariadne and Pinochio's sister cuts loose from her strings.

Inside this collection, a chicken on squeaky tin legs is cooking you eggs and a squirrel plays tape-recorded birdsong high up in a tree. The Horsemen of the Apocalypse high-tail it into town as cowboys, and the fate of the world is decided by a game of cards. The Breakfast Machine is driven by the transformations of fairytale where the dark corners of childhood are explored and found to be alive and well in offices, kitchens, and hen-houses. T...