by Ivory Web | Jul 6, 2010 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
MORNINGThe dead-awakening sound of the alarm clock tells me it is morning again. I wash up and prepare breakfast for my husband and my children. I wish them a nice day as they rush out the door. I sit at the dining table breathing burned toast, dishes waiting to be...
by Ivory Web | Jul 5, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Regular IS&T contributor Patsy Goodsir was on Black Isle recently (in Scotland) visiting her cousin – he has an interesting assortment of hens and ducks which inspired these haiku…BLACK ISLE BIRDS Such a soothing sound,the gentle “tuck tuck”...
by Ivory Web | Jul 4, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Two new poems by Dan Wyke – and read on for details of his new collection… Saturday Night in St. Ives The snack van is closing –a steel sheet padlocked over the hatch,hot oil fed down the drain. The owner sweeps up kebab shavingslike scraps of...
by Ivory Web | Jul 3, 2010 | Reviews
Bridge by Laura Elliott (Cafe Writers Norfolk Commission) Gatehouse Press Ltd. 2010ISBN: 978 – 0 – 9562083 – 7 – 8 Hardback: £10 11 black & white photographs: Angus Sinclair 48ppPoets live between two...
by Ivory Web | Jul 2, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Once upon a timewhen you were eight, it was the Complete Brothers Grimmyou turned to in lonely hours, that silver tomeof grisly parables—toes chopped off for vanity, eyes pecked out for evil or maybe lazy crow-culling—the answerto questions you hadn’t uncovered...
