by Ivory Web | Dec 12, 2010 | Word & Image
Here's a new animation, courtesy the Poetry Foundation in the USA and featuring C.D.Wright reading her poem Lake Echo, Dear – the animation is by Megan Lutz
by Ivory Web | Dec 12, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Butterflies are the souls of dead babiesWhen he leaves, she collects all the caterpillars she can find at the bottom of the garden and sits cross-legged in the shade of the buddleia. She makes a hollow in her skirt and drops in the smooth green, the furry black, the...
by Ivory Web | Dec 11, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
the first bind of Saint Eurydice She seems not to be affected by the gouge. Her eyes blink quickly, trying to protect her from the ammonia. It is not fear that makes her eyes so agitated, she is pregnant with calm, and more than once has met me as we are. Her...
by Ivory Web | Dec 10, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
I Will Not Marry You because I frighten easilybecause I was born once bitten unready for loveand because your head is too small for your bodyand your nose somewhat big for...
by Ivory Web | Dec 9, 2010 | Reviews
Inside the Brightness of Red. Mary MacRae. Second Light Publications, 2010. £8.95.This is a posthumous collection of Mary MacRae’s poetry. Many poems were written whilst she was in remission from cancer. Inevitably this has influenced the work. This is not...
