by Helen Ivory | Oct 21, 2018 | Reviews
This is a book of translucencies. Nothing is over-solid or overstated, nothing prosaic, yet the poems have an energy and exactness that capture relationships, places, people with unusually fine detail. Take the opening poem, ‘Crockery’. The ‘you’ it’s...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 20, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
soundstream cicadas screeching in the night a sound stream falling to a river winding to a southern sea mud bubbling in the es tu a ry as slow ly sleep comes Nick Carding’s poetry and short fiction has appeared online and in...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 19, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Absolution Above the quarry, a rain cloud shifts. Scoured against the sky, its body gradually disintegrates, trailing itself out in long wisps which drift towards the earth like hundreds of delicate limbs. Blindly it feels its way over the desolate land-...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 18, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
pop 70s how do I love you if you don’t love you? we are rusty nails flat tires and umbrellas love throws but always misses still let’s assemble love and kisses Gregg Dotoli studied English at Seton Hall University and enjoys living...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 17, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
At Dinner (after a sculpture by Eusebio Sempere) You appear in the hallway, a shimmying fish-skeleton, your bones, tin-foil. We fill each other’s wine glasses. We try to hold a conversation. Turn our backs on you. In the end we switch off the hall...
