by Ivory Web | Nov 5, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Scenes from an Earlier Life (Lee Theater, Pennington Gap, Va.)Before sealing its doors in ’78it was THE place to be Saturday nights,line forming from the ticket booth stretchingdown Morgan Avenue, flexed and undulating like a human centipede; where checking out...
by Ivory Web | Nov 4, 2011 | Reviews
Enchantment by David Morley, Carcanet, £9.95, 84pp. This book is aptly titled: it certainly does bring the reader under Morley’s spell. The first poem is an elegy for Nicholas Farrar Hughes (Plath’s son). Morley recounts a simple and beautiful memory of going for a...
by Ivory Web | Nov 3, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Angel with the RucksackI used to believe in angelsthe way we were taught to believe,but my angel with a rucksackseemed to arrive from nowhere,like plates flying across a kitchen,children learning to talk,I had never met anything quite like her.‘Are you going to...
by Ivory Web | Nov 2, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
In Season The shimmer of a sun-scorched mackerel skyreflects in heat-haze off a sweating road;bakes plate glass windows: the shop an ovencooking beach-read books, tangled strappy tops,“Ray-Bans”, hot pants; smell of sweat and suntan oil;ice cream dribbling from a...
by Ivory Web | Nov 1, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Greyhound
In the thin rain, the theatrical frame of a greyhound; a slip of grey felt shrug on the weathering ribs, emblazoned with a voluminous pale pink shiver of ballerina. Was it you who tied these shimmering loops on the back of this withering...
