Heath Corlew's 'Love & Unemployment'

by | Jun 24, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

Love & UnemploymentI want to be sointertwined with youthat our limbs wrap about one another⎯and spread⎯defiantly,like kudzu.Consuming and smothering all those perfectly practical reasonsthat keep you⎯ separate⎯from me.Like…the atlantic ocean, your boyfriend,...

Text art from Ira Lightman

by | Jun 22, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image

*Ira Lightman makes public art in the North East, and lately Willenhall and Southampton. He devises visual poetry forms and then asks local communities to supply words that will bring them alive. He is a regular on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. Duetcetera (Shearsman,...

Alex Thornber on the 'Good Ones'

by | Jun 19, 2011 | Prose & Poetry

Good OnesSometimes I wish I lived in a movie from the 40's, where everything is black and white and it either is or it isn't.  Important moments are highlighted by jazz so that you know they are happening.  Girls cover up and the boys don't mind...