by Ivory Web | Aug 25, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
NO KNIFE NEEDEDNo knife needed to cut and slash,or heated iron to burn the flesh,in memory’s blast the mind recoiled.Flayed beneath history’s lash,recall loss and failure and fash about the past. Life is uncoiled,shredded, no knife needed.* G W...
by Ivory Web | Aug 24, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Ensign I heard your voiceas it hitched a rideon the coat-tailsof summer. At its slow inflectiona world unfurled,bobbed likea painted sail. I cast off nowin fear of the edgeand in expectationof New England. Fathomed or landedon this squall’s fair...
by Ivory Web | Aug 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The 2009 Ink Sweat & Tears anthology is now available. In fact it should have been available weeks ago but IS&T knuckle-dragging publisher Charles Christian couldn't get his act together earlier. (Hey, who writes this stuff? Oh, yes, I do… CC) The...
by Ivory Web | Aug 22, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* Rachel Green is a novel writer who will shortly become an novel author but she starts every day with walking her dogs and writing poetry. She has also started 'tweeting' an early morning haiku from her Twitter account – you can find her here...
by Ivory Web | Aug 21, 2010 | Interviews
In the second episode of our new series, Ink Sweat & Tears talks to practicing writers about their process and craft – and asks them nine questions…1. Where do you write? (do you have an office, room, bus or train journey that you find yourself and your...