by Ivory Web | Mar 1, 2011 | Reviews
Year of the Lion Andrew Pidoux, Salt Publishing (Modern Poets Series) ISBN 978-1–84471-791-0 Paperback: £7.99 76ppTowards the end of Andrew Pidoux’s interesting and compulsively readable first collection, winner of the Crashaw Prize in 2009, there is a poem...
by Ivory Web | Feb 28, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
How to Avoid Giving Unwanted AdviceHold your tongue still with your teeth.Feel the sharp white line press downuntil it threatens to draw blood.Slip into the silencesuntil your head is submerged—resist the urge to surface for air.Place your advice in a room of...
by Ivory Web | Feb 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
lesson #27 not really chokingjust cutting offcirculation like this she shows mehow to holdthe red bungeejust so. she's onher kneesin front ofa full length mirror. i'm onmy kneesbehind her. hell of a reachgetting my handaround her...
by Ivory Web | Feb 25, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Night Rain in EmprosnerosFor once the mountains that peer down through the vine at uslike giant scientists, sheer aunts with pine-pocked octopus skin,vanished before nightfall behind a mat of tufting grey cloudwe reassured ourselves could not mean rain.But rain it...
by Ivory Web | Feb 24, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
A poem (with image) from our artist/poet in residence C. Albert. Flora the Poet The Meaning of Roundling With the edges of our eyes, we catch glimpses of roundlings peeking through windows. Gentle creatures, ready to bolt, fragile with dark...
