by Ivory Web | Sep 21, 2011 | Reviews
Writing Your Self: Transforming Personal Material Myra Schneider & John Killick (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978 1 8470 6252 9, Paperback: £16.99 259pp)It was back in the 80s, a time when I wrote loads of reviews for a multiplicity of...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ivory Web | Sep 20, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
PlagueIt came   little hands   little eyes   little feetthe tiny dragonin dreams it grew wingsbreathed fire   green scalescoming with the moonmy dreammore than the fog   carries the deadwherever they...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ivory Web | Sep 19, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
New York Stopover, 1966for my mother At 93, she recalls what I don’t: steam blooming from pavements – (loud crack in the afternoon and immediately  the steep up-and-down wail of American sirens, faces half-borrowed from movies: the lean dark-haired man...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ivory Web | Sep 18, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
The musician speaks of the PacificWe are the something of sirens      this, our urgent-sound:laughter deepening an acreageof littered whisperings; eyelash sea-greens.Steady me. In this breeze, moments come free.     Place your hands on my shoulders      and I’ll...				
					
			
					
				
															
					
					 by Ivory Web | Sep 17, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Come Rhiannon          Forget,  the blackbirds                        the...