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 "Maps of the Abandoned City" is a sequence of her new poems, previously unpublished in book-form.