Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is The Anatomical Venus (May 2019) examines how women have been portrayed as ‘other’; as witches; as hysterics with wandering wombs and as beautiful corpses cast in wax, or on mortuary slabs in TV box sets.
She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a tutor for the UEA/NCW online creative writing programme. Fool’s World , a collaborative Tarot with Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press) won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A book of mixed media poems Hear What the Moon Told Me appeared from KFS in 2016, and a chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City was published by SurVision Press (Ireland) earlier this year. She lives in Norwich with her husband, the poet and photographer Martin Figura.
2019 The Anatomical Venus, Bloodaxe Books
2019 Maps of the Abandoned City, SurVision Books
2013 Waiting For Bluebeard, Bloodaxe Books
2012 In Their Own Words: Poets on their Poetry (ed with George Szirtes), Salt Publishing
2010 The Breakfast Machine, Bloodaxe Books
2006 The Dog in the Sky, Bloodaxe Books
2002 The Double Life of Clocks,Bloodaxe Books