by Ivory Web | Apr 25, 2010 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
* Jonathan Pinnock has had a fair bit of poetry published here and there, as well as ending up on a few shortlists. However for the moment he would prefer to be known as the author of the increasingly peculiar fictional serial Mrs Darcy vs The Aliens which you may...
by Ivory Web | Apr 24, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Labor DayTo my surprise, the boss tells me I can have the whole weekend off. I elect to drive home to see family – seventy miles north. Little traffic, mainly farmland, some modest towns, a small lake or two....
by Ivory Web | Apr 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Tilling I work the soil with my own hard handswhile my neighbour, his sky-blue eyesringed with granite, stalks the fieldslike the elements that close hard fast around me. The deep furrows in the raw sienna mudare waterlogged with bits of the sky.A rook swims...
by Ivory Web | Apr 23, 2010 | Reviews
Carole Bromley Skylight, Smith/Doorstop 2009, £5 ISBN 978-1-906613-08-2 Carole Bromley strikes me as a keenly observant poet. The poems in her pamphlet Skylight brim with the minute particulars of daily life. Much of this collection is set in the 50s and...
by Ivory Web | Apr 22, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Her China SeagullIt is smooth like skin but cold.When I lick it it tastes like salt.(We must be careful at all times and know what we want.)When I see it, I think of my grandmother,I think of her house and the cellar with the jars of jam.I think of her house with the...
