by Ivory Web | Jul 29, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Yes, bad timing, this should really be used tomorrow…FFRIDAY Fuck she saidno hot waterFuck she saidone earring rollingbeneath the bedFuck she saidit’s half past eightI’ll be lateFuck she saidthe car’s stalled againFuck she saidthe petrol’s lowFuck she...
by Ivory Web | Jul 28, 2010 | Reviews
Fiona Sinclair reviews Circling the Core by Myra Schneider, Enitharmon 2009, ISBN 9781904634669, £9.95Many of the poems in Myra Schneider’s collection Circling the Core are meditations. Her great achievement here is to allow her female personas to find amongst...
by Ivory Web | Jul 27, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
She’s YoursOne version is that you went to prison, and nobody knowing why only makes it all the more glamorousto a seven year old with a giddy imagination.Out picking daisies and dandelion clocks,scabs all over her knees, the girl imagines yourattling your tin cup...
by Ivory Web | Jul 26, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Dementia Perpetua(i.m M.A.P)If you keep looking down they can’t see you. I don’t want to catch their eye again. It’s like playing Peep-O with a baby, if they can’t see your face it’s as if you are gone. They can read your mind. I’ve seen them moving. The...
by Ivory Web | Jul 24, 2010 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
* Sarah Ahmad lives in Pakistan. She describes this piece as poetry/art broadside.