Helen Ivory is a poet and assemblage/collage artist. Her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection is Waiting for Bluebeard. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat & Tears and teaches for The Poetry School, The Arvon Foundation and The Poetry Society. She is Course Director for the Continuing Education programme in Creative Writing for UEA and Writers’ Centre Norwich. And she is co-editor with George Szirtes of In their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their Poetry (Salt, 2012)