by Ivory Web | Jun 6, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Poet's BestiaryAttempting to hammer some live thing out of the words,black and white, green, it hangs on the feeder. ●A sentence better not to have set free, it curlsand plays dead, v on its neck, forked...
by Ivory Web | Jun 5, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
When a Beauty outlives her looks. The TV tolls her death at 79.Jogs our memory about her brace of Oscars,emphasises the ‘Dame’ but footnotes the genius of her face,and the barmaid’s dirty laugh as she guzzled gin and gorged on gateau in the 21 club. Front...
by Ivory Web | Jun 4, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Broken WindowsAll this and not ordinary, not unordered in not resembling.The difference is spreading. —Gertrude Stein (Tender Buttons)Stein and Picasso would sit by the window and watch the street scenes.“Gertrude,” Picasso would say, “the windows are windows, but art...
by Ivory Web | Jun 3, 2011 | Interviews
Seven QuestionsIn 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 have two writing places in my house – one is a desk in the...
by Ivory Web | Jun 2, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The ManifestationThe verb make abandons the hearton my tongue, of sorts, unspoken and bizarre.Tchaikovsky said: In matters of love,words are not necessary. He spoke these words and with themconjured this idea that I now layagainst your rib cage. It carries the...
