Helen Ivory 🪠🐈⬛
@helenivory.bsky.social
Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
Hey sorry I've been away. What do you mean you didn't notice!? Anyway, it's #worldmenopauseday ! Let's celebrate! ( from Constructing a Witch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social )
October 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Hey sorry I've been away. What do you mean you didn't notice!? Anyway, it's #worldmenopauseday ! Let's celebrate! ( from Constructing a Witch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social )
For anyone else with Dad Envy today in the UK! It's from my semi autobiographical @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection Waiting for Bluebeard. Sorry to be such a downer!
June 15, 2025 at 10:40 AM
For anyone else with Dad Envy today in the UK! It's from my semi autobiographical @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection Waiting for Bluebeard. Sorry to be such a downer!
I am posting occasional notes on Substack about some of the thinking behind the poems for Constructing a Witch. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Feel free to subscribe - it's free! #witch #poems #feministwitch #constructingawitch helenivory.substack.com/p/lets-put-a...
April 5, 2025 at 9:13 AM
I am posting occasional notes on Substack about some of the thinking behind the poems for Constructing a Witch. @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social Feel free to subscribe - it's free! #witch #poems #feministwitch #constructingawitch helenivory.substack.com/p/lets-put-a...
This is coming up next week! Looking forward to unleashing some witch poems. Let's go! #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 10:47 PM
This is coming up next week! Looking forward to unleashing some witch poems. Let's go! #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
On World Book Day, my reading copies of some of my contributions to the book mountain! I am still amazed that I have written books. 6 for @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social .It's something as I child I wanted to do but it seemed way out of my reach.(have been lucky enough to make the images for the covers)
March 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
On World Book Day, my reading copies of some of my contributions to the book mountain! I am still amazed that I have written books. 6 for @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social .It's something as I child I wanted to do but it seemed way out of my reach.(have been lucky enough to make the images for the covers)
Looking forward to reading some Witch poems in Oxford tomorrow! *cackle* @livecanon.bsky.social
February 23, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Looking forward to reading some Witch poems in Oxford tomorrow! *cackle* @livecanon.bsky.social
The apple has long been associated with love charms and spells. This poem is from my new collection Constructinga Witch. The spirits mentioned, I heard about in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle. #constructingawitch #spell @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The apple has long been associated with love charms and spells. This poem is from my new collection Constructinga Witch. The spirits mentioned, I heard about in the Museum of Witchcraft in Boscastle. #constructingawitch #spell @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
New glasses. Slightly bigger appetures. Now I see all!
February 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
New glasses. Slightly bigger appetures. Now I see all!
The fox had been getting ideas!
February 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The fox had been getting ideas!
Here's the piece I wrote for the PBS about my witch book. Which is actually part of a trilogy I didn't know I was writing! #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Here's the piece I wrote for the PBS about my witch book. Which is actually part of a trilogy I didn't know I was writing! #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
Wonderful to read the PBS review of my witch book! #witch #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Wonderful to read the PBS review of my witch book! #witch #constructingawitch @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social
A poem from my new @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection Constructing a Witch. The quote from the Malleus would make you laugh if it wasn't a held position of people in power. This was the witchfinding manual. It's been adhered to and ridiculed in measures. #constructingawitch #witch #feministpoem
February 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A poem from my new @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social collection Constructing a Witch. The quote from the Malleus would make you laugh if it wasn't a held position of people in power. This was the witchfinding manual. It's been adhered to and ridiculed in measures. #constructingawitch #witch #feministpoem
Imbolc Blessings poppets! #needlefelt #imbolc
February 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Imbolc Blessings poppets! #needlefelt #imbolc
Think this one might be finished . . . #shadowbox #assemblage
January 30, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Think this one might be finished . . . #shadowbox #assemblage
I wrote this after visiting Auschwitz a few years ago. My husband's remaining Polish family live just down the road from there.
January 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I wrote this after visiting Auschwitz a few years ago. My husband's remaining Polish family live just down the road from there.
What a magical week @jessmookherjee.bsky.social and I had at Arvon last week! I'll miss this spooky view from Totleigh! And all the people who made the week so special.
January 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
What a magical week @jessmookherjee.bsky.social and I had at Arvon last week! I'll miss this spooky view from Totleigh! And all the people who made the week so special.
You need to book a hundred years in advance to get a taxi before 9am, apparently. So here's me at first light dragging my suitcase to the train station. Apologies to everyone who was rudely awoken en route by the sound of my juddering suitcase wheels. Totleigh Barton ahoy!
January 13, 2025 at 8:26 AM
You need to book a hundred years in advance to get a taxi before 9am, apparently. So here's me at first light dragging my suitcase to the train station. Apologies to everyone who was rudely awoken en route by the sound of my juddering suitcase wheels. Totleigh Barton ahoy!
Today my shadow engaged with the shadow of a very tall hare . . .
January 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Today my shadow engaged with the shadow of a very tall hare . . .
Very excited to receive second print run copies of Constructing a Witch this morning! I have used this quote from my last book as a preface. It's a long, long road.
January 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Very excited to receive second print run copies of Constructing a Witch this morning! I have used this quote from my last book as a preface. It's a long, long road.
Preparing for a poetry workshop next week . . . Amazing what I have lying round in my studio!
January 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Preparing for a poetry workshop next week . . . Amazing what I have lying round in my studio!
Ok, let's do 2025 then!
January 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Ok, let's do 2025 then!
Vinyl Christmas, Witches!
December 25, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Vinyl Christmas, Witches!
