Wunderkammer

"Helen Ivory's poems take place in the world of fables, transformations and portents as delivered in a voice that is characteristic, in fact unique, yet difficult to pin down. It is a world where the moon is pushed down the chimney's throat but where the voice remains orderly, procedural, matter-of-fact, sometimes faintly official like a children's nurse delivering dangerous news. The news remains dangerous" GEORGE SZIRTES

"These poems are a delight for the assurance she provides that everyday wonders, surprises, and quotidian horrors are in our reach and accessible through her word ministry. Brave and imaginative! Read this book." MAXINE CHERNOFF

"Ivory is an intensely visual poet, and her images could nestle up close to those of artists like Leonora Carrington, say, or Dorothea Tanning: Surrealist painters whose strongest work gives us domestic interiors where the realistic takes the impossible in uncanny matrimony" Robert Archambeau , from his introduction