by Ivory Web | Dec 2, 2008 | Word & Image
Here is the latest in our Ink Sweat & Tears series of podcasts. Called Scar, it is by Stephanie Leal, a performance poet from the USA. She completed the MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia in 2007 and currently lives in Norwich, England. This...
by Ivory Web | Dec 2, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
The Umbrella of the Future Sarah finds the clicker, turns on the TV, sips her tea, waits. Cold mornings lately, the little Sony seems sluggish, slow to wake. Sarah hopes it’s not dying, hopes this is just a winter thing. Imagines a small black...
by Ivory Web | Dec 1, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Stargazing in December Orion topples sidelong over my neighbor's roof. The cold envelops me in its dream of total absorption. Cell by cell I resist the stars and their crude superstitions, though centuries of astrologers pant like bread in the...
by Ivory Web | Nov 29, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* Regular IS&T contributor Rachel Green is a novel writer who will shortly become an novel author, but she starts every day with walking her dogs and writing poetry. Books of haiku available from www.leatherdyke.co.uk
by Ivory Web | Nov 28, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
REUNION Those old school dinners,the greasy mince, the pitchers of weak teahave been transmuted into beef,red wine tonight.The lives that run betweenare beads strung out along a chain of dayswhich we investigate with nervous fingers. ~ ~ ~ ~...