by Ivory Web | Jan 10, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
ChirimoyaCustard apple. Sweetsop. Guanabana.Mostly, it’s the human heart,
its skin – green or yellow, thick or thin – marked as if moulded
by the fingers of everyone who touched it.Picked too soon, it gives a little
under pressure, is easily broken intoor cut open...
by Ivory Web | Jan 9, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
insomnie marinethe salt of insomnia burns my templesI pick up black shells along the endless shoreaquamarine eternitywhite surf dancing under the roof of summer*Virginie Colline is a French translator living in Paris. Her poems have been published in The Scrambler,...
by Ivory Web | Jan 8, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
The Woman Who Loved Every Man I collect them. Devote myself to it.Reminders on corkboards, pinned by pointed tacks as tokens of attention.Sometimes in scrapbooks:Hair gently trimmed during sleep,A pressed flower from a poet,The butt from a stranger whose lips I...
by Ivory Web | Jan 7, 2012 | Reviews
Carole Bromley: A Guided Tour of the Ice House. Smith/Doorstep Books. 2011. ISBN: 9781906613310. £9.95.Pippa Little: The Snow Globe: Red Squirrell Press. 2011. ISBN: 9781906700591. £4.50.A Guided Tour of the Ice House is a long overdue full length...
by Ivory Web | Jan 5, 2012 | 12 days 2011
WinterPolish is spoken here and mountains have appeared behind the closed down meat pie factory. Bears roll their snouts like drunks,lumber down the mountains, lick sticky locked-up gates, globules of gristle stuck in rusted padlocks. All of us, bears,...
