by Ivory Web | Jan 16, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Ex-Lib, Otherwise As NewFor a penny online, plus postage, I bought a slender book by a former Poet Laureate. It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974.The KC Public Library stamped the book “INV 1984” and, sometime later, “DISCARD.”The unmarked...
by Ivory Web | Jan 14, 2009 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Enter a Jet-Black RoomMadness has no schedule. It can be standing at the busstop, but the bus either comes or it doesn’t. Madnessmay wear a trench coat – tan I think – with epauletsand that belt that no one knows quite what do with.But then again, it could be wearing...
by Ivory Web | Jan 13, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
NO IDEAI have no ideahow long it had beensince I'd last seen herbut as I turned the cornerinto the lane by my flatthere she was in front of meattractive and sexyin little shorts and vestshe exclaimed “hello Colin”and then talked non stopabout people...
by Ivory Web | Jan 12, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Full Circle Man was born in Africa.Around a million years ago our ancestors had the courage to climb down from the trees and venture onto the savannah where we learned to stand tall and proud.We were not the strongest or fastest, but were able to live side by...
by Ivory Web | Jan 11, 2009 | Word & Image
Here's our latest poetry podcast recording, courtesy of PoetCasting.co.uk. The poem – Invoking St Ciaran – is by Maureen Boyle. Maureen Boyle grew up in County Tyrone. She studied at Trinity Collge in Dublin, then the Universities of East Anglia and London. In...
