by Ivory Web | Sep 6, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
CROW CROW flew just oncein a straight linethe hooded oneliving in my gardenstraight as a shoulder-fired missilebrought down the escaping harrierseen circling CROW-EMPIRErammed it side-onknocked it spinning out of the blue stunnedthe red bird fell...
by Ivory Web | Sep 5, 2007 | Reviews
Little Gods by Jacob PolleyPicador (2006)51pp, £8.99ISBN: 9780330444200Polley’s excellent debut The Brink, published in 2003 was a remarkable critical success. The collection was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T S Eliot, Forward and John...
by Ivory Web | Sep 4, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
Words that bleedShe was the knife in thehands of Jack the Ripperin a heavy fog bankin a back alleyin old London Townslicing dicing her way through thecanvas of my heartShe was the pearl-handled revolverin the hands of Dillingerthat begged to be firedbut never got the...
by Ivory Web | Sep 2, 2007 | Word & Image
This multimedia treatment of T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock received a name check in the books section of this Saturday's Times newspaper, so we thought we'd track down the clip and let you see it for yourself. The animation is by Everett...
by Ivory Web | Aug 31, 2007 | Prose & Poetry
When I was tenMum fell in love with Uncle Phil.She always said to me it didn't meanshe loved Dad less,only this time Dad found outand rammed Mum's pink plastic hairbrushdown his best mate's throat. ***The day they let...
