by Ivory Web | Dec 17, 2011 | Reviews
Andrew McMillan, The Moon is a Supporting Player (Sand Chapbooks, Red Squirrel Press, 2011) pp.38, £4.00p.Helen Ivory’s cover design – which I take to be a homage to Magritte – is a perfect introduction to Andrew McMillan’s new pamphlet, The Moon is a Supporting...
by Ivory Web | Dec 16, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
second fermenting a rounded vowel bubbles up*crayon what to draw with this new shade of blue*a tree frogflicking her tonguesolar flare*no people to disturbtheir island nestburied ordnance*tiny troughson the beetle’s shella sip of desert fog*approaching spoon that...
by Ivory Web | Dec 15, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
To Two Unnamed EditorsMy son told me he loved me and hugged me for two minutesIn my former hallway.My daughter cried as I was leaving and begged meTo take her with me.The heat’s on. The bed’s warm.The rent’s paid and Little Walter just followed Fats Domino on the...
by Ivory Web | Dec 14, 2011 | Reviews
Jacqueline Saphra, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions, Flipped Eye 2011, £5.99This is an exceptionally good collection of poems that have both energy and weight, as they sparkle while they settle into your consciousness. These qualities come from a strongly individual...
by Ivory Web | Dec 13, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Portrait of My Lover as a Waterfall(after Selima Hill)How relentless you are, O Lord,and how obsessively you pour yourselfdragging everything with you, right over theedge and down into the flurry and the frenzyof your important falling.No time have you, O Lord,for the...
