by Ivory Web | Feb 17, 2011 | Reviews
ART OF DARKNESS The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville, Hodder and Stoughton February 17th 2011It’s 1952, and the war has been over for twelve years. In the heart of Nazi Afrika, Walter Hochburg works to consolidate the Third Reich’s hold over power. The old colonial...
by Ivory Web | Feb 16, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The Only Brunette on the BeachThe only brunette on the beach,I keep a safe distance from the sun,my eye on the smalt-blue seawhere the Kraken sleeps.Adamastor holds his stormy breath.The Flying Dutchman lies becalmed.Perhaps he has no wish for harbour here, now, after...
by Ivory Web | Feb 15, 2011 | Reviews
The Night Post: A New Selection Matthew Sweeney. Salt (Modern Poets Series)ISBN: 978 1 907773 01 3 Hardback: £10.39. 192ppAs any editor will tell you, writers aren’t always the wisest judges of their own work,...
by Ivory Web | Feb 12, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
French PolishA morsel of cokebetween manicured fingersnails polishedau naturelfor a botox generationpink as a Botticelli bottomwith a bone white tip and moon # # # # # # Old Etonian Recipe In an insulated atmosphere, siftblue blood, old gold, new media,...
by Ivory Web | Feb 11, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
The SnowboyNo.What to make of what’s becoming nothing more than a mound of snow? The one where he takes a thick grief from its hook, and wears it out to step intoa freezer, and the glowsinges his eyes. For hoursthe sky wavers over blues, to rest back on a transitory...
