by Ivory Web | Jun 29, 2011 | Interviews
In this series Ink Sweat & Tears talks to practicing writers about their process.1. Where do you write? (do you have an office, room, bus journey that you find yourself and your writing?) I write prose books in a converted garden shed. I like...
by Ivory Web | Jun 28, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
TempoYou angle the plastic stick. You check the instruction sheet. Pee gets on your fingers Outside dopplered music heralds the approach of an ice cream van. Children shout, a dog yelps in time to Mendelsshon...
by Ivory Web | Jun 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Seeds (after Palm Sunday, Anselm Keifer)Deep in the root ball of the shipthe plant collector is making a nest.He counts his catch, tucks each seedin its own hand-labeled box, ebonycabinet ticking with paused hearts.He dreams one day of growinga fresh...
by Ivory Web | Jun 26, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Lion TamerBeyond the bars, the circus crowd sits paleto watch the beasts perform the tricks they loathe – They hope that I, their tamer, may just fail.But with my whip I will control them both.I have outfaced the adulating crowdand I have learned to ride the...
by Ivory Web | Jun 25, 2011 | Reviews
Anne Stewart The Janus Hour, Oversteps Books 2010, ISBN 978-1-906856-16-8
£9 Many of the poems in this collection challenge the moral standpoint of the reader. We are invited to understand the motivations of a series of violent men...
