by Ivory Web | Nov 23, 2008 | Word & Image
* Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem Some Days with animation by Julian Grey of Headgear.
by Ivory Web | Nov 22, 2008 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
Winter is here – well it certainly is to today in rural East Anglia where IS&T is located – so here is a seasonal haiga by Maggie West…* Maggie West says “After I had been writing short poems for some years, I discovered haiku while studying formal...
by Ivory Web | Nov 21, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
200 DegreesHot hot hot. Too hot. So hot that our shirts sucked sweaty to our backs and our feet slip-slid in our shoes. The ceiling fan folded the air like cake mixture. The fax machine had a binary breakdown, 011100001110101000111. Lucy Miller pretended to clean the...
by Ivory Web | Nov 20, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Endangered SpeciesWhatever became of the ‘fancy man’?The salesmen and under-managers in suitswhose aftershave vied with toothpaste and tobacco, occasional consorts of women my mother disapproved of,who called round afternoons to see wivesno better than they ought to...
by Ivory Web | Nov 19, 2008 | Word & Image
Here's our latest poetry podcast recording, courtesy of PoetCasting.co.uk. The poem – Of English Lawns & Bright Piazzas – is by Simone Mansell Broome. Simone read English at Sussex University and is now based in West Wales, living on a farm and running a...
