by Ivory Web | Jul 29, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
BUDDLEIAIt’s hot and the buddleia’s out,flourishing in waste ground,along the railway embankments. Mauve and that rarer dark purple.It waves in the wind like penises, if penises were made of tiny flowers,if they waved in the wind.I remember my mother in the back...
by Ivory Web | Jul 28, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
We've got three short pieces for your today – by Matt Howard, Janet Thorning and a prose poem by IS&T editor Charles Christian…Totem Dreaming of magpies all night, I heard one;he chaked and chaked until I woke.When I pulled the curtain aside to...
by Ivory Web | Jul 27, 2008 | Word & Image
While we wait in the UK to find out who will become the next Poet Laureate – the betting is on Simon Armitage or Carol Ann Duffy or Roger McGough – here's a reading and interview with Kay Ryan, who has just been appointed to the laureateship in the US. The US...
by Ivory Web | Jul 26, 2008 | Word & Image
• Chris Major is a regular contributor of concrete poems to IS&T
by Ivory Web | Jul 25, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Flames They say ‘She’s out of control.’‘Someone should do something.’They phone social services, who send nice women with too quiet voices to soothe and help. They go away again, smiling,satisfied that their sensible advice has made a difference.How lovely for...
