by Ivory Web | Apr 9, 2010 | Reviews
Anna Woodford: Party Piece The Poetry Business 2009I think the one line that best sums up Anna Woodford’s intentions in her pamphlet Party Piece comes at the end of her poem ‘Taking in the Washing’. Here she tells us ‘‘I cling to our line’s unbrokenness: it extends...
by Ivory Web | Apr 9, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Stealing DucksThe night farm was churningeverything over, grinding its teeth—darkness produced in hidden looms,spun through wriggling bobbins.You said we should get on with it,or expect to be caught. At the gatewe had seen a set of sleeping jaws.It was the year’s...
by Ivory Web | Apr 8, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* Francis Masat is co-editor of Key-Ku (Florida Keys haiku) and author of Lilacs After Winter (haibun) and other books. The haiku used in this haiga received an honorable mention in the Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest, 2006.
by Ivory Web | Apr 8, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
If There Were WaterDirty and battered, a white van bumps and grinds along the track. Its driver, probably on his way home from a few beers in the village and a trip to the local builder’s yard, veers first one way then the other to avoid the deepest ruts. At this hour...
by Ivory Web | Apr 7, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The dog at the FuneralThe dog was unusually quiet,in fact he was out of character.As we prayed the rosary, he watched us loop the beads without snappingin his usual unholy manner.My grandmother played the part of the corpse;she wore an imitation silk shroud,printed...
