by Ivory Web | Mar 27, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Janus the morning brought sheets of grazing snows fighting for feet amidst memory of spring at times like these the promise of hope is a seasonal shift, an answering mind brought on winds which whip themselves east and cough over tracks. I see bones under skin and...
by Ivory Web | Mar 27, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Little Corpses Never walk on a frozen lake. It may appear as thick as your arm But the silent water deceives with places Of thinness, beneath bridges and where trees Slant over; the eager crack and quick swallow- No little corpses under the ice. Never play on the...
by Ivory Web | Mar 21, 2012 | Reviews
Esther Morgan: Grace. Bloodaxe Books. 2011. ISBN: 9781852249182. £8.95. Esther Morgan’s enigmatically entitled third collection, Grace, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. It also contains her Bridport winning poem...
by Ivory Web | Mar 20, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Idyll I went to escape the urban solitude, To escape the perpetual flaneurship, the dogged ‘outsider’ mantle I was made from. I should’ve said grow up you child, you’re a writer What did you expect? And the people there, in the countryside were like,...
by Ivory Web | Mar 18, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Filling the Ghost Position I make him who I wanted him to be. I build him from memory and from other people: a pick-and-mix of George Clooney’s hair and Kenneth Branagh’s chin. I sometimes shop locally if the produce is available: I once bought a used copy of D. H....
