by Ivory Web | Nov 3, 2010 | Reviews
Chora: New & Selected Poems, Nigel McLoughlin , Templar Poetry ISBN: 978-1-906285-35-5 Hardback: £9.99 123ppChôra, receptacle of becoming, matrix in which things are formed and given birth, is a Greek term taken from Plato’s Timaeus (c. 448...
by Ivory Web | Nov 2, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
World Class World class reputation became so much the norm among amateurs who had reviewed me positively that a cabinet for intangible effects was built, something like a cardboard box but not quite. I worried that no one read my de rien sequence.Its...
by Ivory Web | Nov 1, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
New BrightonAmongst the clunk of metal Dock yards and bitter sand storms Our feet dapple the spongy sand Marking, that we’ll get washed awayBreathlessly pressed up against the fort, The rock at my back Seaweed soaks me to the scalp, tainting it green, Blunting the...
by Ivory Web | Oct 31, 2010 | Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga
* Rachel Green is a writer and novelist. She starts every day walking her dogs and writing poetry – and has also started 'tweeting' an early morning haiku from her Twitter account – you can find her here...
by Ivory Web | Oct 30, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
It is a risk To open up words, unfold them to paper. Found vowels, hidden sibilants chosen plosives change shape on a page. (From Piece Work) The succulent winter melonThe succulent winter melon lay halvedbefore us, seeds brimming its...