by Ivory Web | Oct 8, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
When You’re Ready the Right Man will Come AlongTaking my cup of tea back to bed this morning,the air was stillbut I could just see, obliquely,the telegraph wire stretched across the streetvibrating and saggingquite alarmingly. What bloody heavy sodding bird is that? I...
by Ivory Web | Oct 7, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
SandblastedEyes trained on the distance, beyond the lighthouse, out to sea. Standing on the metal, clang and echo. Once you could slip inside through the gap, wander round, through the eerie concrete passageways, but not any more. Too grown up, too big. This used to...
by Ivory Web | Oct 6, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Reviews
This Room in the Sunlight Collected Poems by Bernard Kops, David Paul Publishing, London, 2010, £9.99p, Paperback, 132pp., ISBN 9780954848262Among the greatest events of British literature this decade is the publication of the collected poems of Bernard Kops, the...
by Ivory Web | Oct 5, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Ash In your poems I hear the devils’ trill,and isn’t that the charm?In your eyes I see volcanic ash,love, isn’t that the draw?I listen to Neruda in His native tongue,it makes me thirsty, yet all I have is tearsI have a tattoo of Shelly’s heart on my hip,I dreamed you...
by Ivory Web | Oct 4, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
I’m wondering –If I were riding my bicyclein the Tour de France, a littleahead of the Pelotonwith a chance of winning a stage,this stage, Stage 7 or 9 or 12,and rounding a turn I came upon youstanding at the side of the road,clapping and cheering the riders on,so...
by Ivory Web | Oct 3, 2011 | Prose & Poetry
Your Reservation Code Is MWDX9768Through driving rain on the boundless, endless motorways of England, from estuary to city to harbour and back. From M4 to M5. Megabus and Megatrain and one pound fares to Stoke-on-Trent. I take the seat with all the legroom and stretch...
