Maps of the Abandoned City

Maps of the Abandoned City imagines a place deserted by its makers. Mirrors are starved of human life, creatures cut loose and The Dark comes home and takes off its boots.

'Helen Ivory’s imagination is similarly inventive, daring, suggestive and uncategorisable, moving between poetry and art and, again like Tanning, with an edge of feminist subversion that is never laboured, but part of an irrepressible, fertile, prolific but ultimately politicised creativity.' Rosie Jackson 'London Grip'.

"Maps of The Abandoned City by Helen Ivory is a pamphlet of unforgettable poetry. For me, it was often reminiscent of T. S. Eliot’s The Wasteland: it communicates the same feeling of disorientation, where nothing is as it should be. This abandoned city Ivory shows us is disquieting, strange and eerie. Many lines leap out at you and grab you by the throat.


Louise Brown 'Everybody's Reviewing'