by Ivory Web | Feb 27, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Weekend Affair Monday I really missed you — your long fingers, hair curled round my fingers and all that. Tuesday I was terribly busy. Wednesday something about a girl at the office reminded me of you for an instant. Thursday at the office I caught myself watching her...
by Ivory Web | Feb 25, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
The Holy Ghost I didn’t know;Christ had thorns stuck in his head,God Almighty was in everything,even Goblin pies I hated.The Holy Ghost a mysteryuntil he came:burning coals,shuggy-boating above my bed,placing his blood into me.Smile(For Father Conlin)Our priest was a...
by Ivory Web | Feb 24, 2012 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
The 2012 Café Writers Norfolk Commission, in collaboration with IS&TPoet and UEA tutor Andrea Holland is £3,000 better off after being announced the winner of the fifth Café Writers Norfolk Commission. Also included in the award is publication of a poetry...
by Ivory Web | Feb 23, 2012 | Prose & Poetry
Still LifeRigby’s approach is to sweep things under the carpet.Sometime, he hoovers them up,But then he can’t sleepImagines them still alive in the clear plastic cylinder,The ugly words,The cunts the bastards the bitchesThat lay wriggling round her,That he threw, not...
by Ivory Web | Feb 21, 2012 | Reviews
The New Blur Album by John Osborne, 2011, Nasty Little Press 28pp | £5 ISBN: 978-0-9563767-7-0Reading critically and reading for pleasure can sometimes be at odds with one another. Reading through John Osborne’s latest collection the critical reader in my...
