by Ivory Web | Feb 6, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
SNAPS• I’m at Uni in Wales. Joan puts rollers in her hair and lies on the rug in front of the one bar fire to dry it. It takes forever and there’s a scorching smell. Elizabeth’s mother has sent her homemade Cornish pasties but they’re all...
by Ivory Web | Feb 5, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
For £5.45 An Hour Just a fucking cockroach of a womanwaving a pack of mince at me wailing ‘Get us another one,this one’s outer date!’ so I go the other end of the shop,get one and take it to her,she screeches ‘Argh, this one’s onlytil the tenf a Feb-roo-airy,aven’t...
by Ivory Web | Feb 4, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Three new haiku + a photo from regular IS&T contributor Patsy Goodsir who is just back from a holiday on Lanzarote in the Canary Isles…MACHER SUNSET Charcoal mountains sleepburnished by a lipstick skythe kiss of angelsFAMARA BEACH Blonde streaked...
by Ivory Web | Feb 3, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
This is another first for Ink Sweat & Tears, as we have a poem by regular IS&T contributor Helen Pletts, that she read at last year's annual Poetry on the Lake festival in Orta, Italy, complete with a translation into Italian by Gabriel Griffin. This poem...
by Ivory Web | Feb 2, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
The VisitorI wake with the early morning sunlight warming my face to see two lumpy stumps are protruding from my lower body.I sit up on the white sand to study them. They are a mottled pink colour with blue lines running under the skin like the veins in my arms. I...
