by Ivory Web | Nov 23, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
Leaves Folded boats of pink almond leaf float down pavementsin the wind, bright coins of beech jink and shuffle in the pocketsof the trees, crumble of dry tobacco dust in gutters, the tulip tree isholding on to leaves of bright green, bantam bronze, refusingto...
by Ivory Web | Nov 21, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
PRINNY'S EYEThe Brighton Lanes are popular with tourists, draw people through them like the moon on waves. The occasional person, or small pebble, may be left behind and lost.It reminded her of a pebble, the round of it, its hard to the touch; his eyeball, just...
by Ivory Web | Nov 19, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
The Poetic Revolution Begins HereQuesto bombardamento poetico sulla città vuole lanciare in tutto il mondo il Manifesto di Genova della Rivoluzione Poetica…Lawrence Ferlinghettiis at the controls of a helicopterand is swooping dangerouslyover the Doge’s Palace.The...
by Ivory Web | Nov 18, 2007 | Reviews
Love in the CityNocturne in Chrome & Sunset Yellow by Tobias Hill Salt Publishing (2006), 67pp, £8.99, ISBN: 9781844712625‘Nocturne’ and ‘Yellow’ sound strange in the title of a collection of poems – would this be poetry of music and painting? In a way...
by Ivory Web | Nov 16, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
IN HIS BEARD A COLLECTION OF SWEET BREADOn the emergency roomtable a bearded manbeing examined wasfound with ants in his beard.Each ant carried crumbs of sweetbread, which they could notenjoy because the nursewho cleaned the man's white beard,swept the ants away,...