by Ivory Web | Apr 14, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Dead Trees of Coole ParkOn a silent Sunday take me to Coole Park where the dead trees whisperTo where the people of letters sleep Etched letter by letter, vandals of the word speak in this cemetery of autographsBone-coldThe air is silent and still awash with the...
by Ivory Web | Apr 13, 2011 | Reviews
Couch Potato PoetryGhost Town Music, Bobby Parker (£7.00, Knives Forks and Spoons Press)The words ‘irreverent’ and ‘anarchic’ are often used about things which really aren’t either. This is both. Even the front cover has a punk aesthetic: the same dark green, the same...
by Ivory Web | Apr 12, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
A Land of PagodasThis is a land of pagodas. Everywhereyou turn, you’re faced with another.They are where the gods live, just handyfor the bazaar, so that they can come downfrom their high places to fetch bananasand coconut milk. They do not have to pay.For who would...
by Ivory Web | Apr 10, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Those of usThose of us who were out last night planting beans in the sunwho were woken by a seabirddrumming on the roof of the cabinand found the pitch of the boat had loosened while we were asleep,those whose hands remember the warmth of an eggbefore it cooledhave...
by Ivory Web | Apr 9, 2011 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
*Pris Campbell is a regular IS&T contributor who has published her haiga and free verse in numerous online and print journals. She has five collections of poetry out. The most recent is The Nature of Attraction , with Scott Owens (Main Street Rag Press). She has...
