by Kate Birch | Dec 25, 2010 | 12 days 2010, Prose & Poetry
Reunion ‘Let his path be covered all in red, so Justice can lead him back into his home’ Clytaemnestra I Welcome home, husband. At last. Observe, I spread this, a red carpet at your feet. Greet your pretty children. Walk with me and watch me work....
by Ivory Web | Dec 24, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play Idea #7: ‘Tipi Hedron’walking, fire deep in the throat of the nightTippi Hedron comes back as a treesuch reaching elegance; uncreasedunder a stress of raven, stoic,such beauty underneath...
by Ivory Web | Dec 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Robert Mills Architectural Antiques, Narroways Road, BristolLook. High up there, against the rotting...
by Ivory Web | Dec 23, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Regular IS&T contributor and stalwart of the West Midlands/Black Country poetry scene Geoff Stevens says he has “received a lot of emails recently from evangelical poetry bodies that are infiltrating our region in an attempt to convert us to London-style...
by Ivory Web | Dec 22, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Sonnet for Sale Unused, in good condition, unpublished.Precise metre, several painstaking drafts,all darlings murdered in cold blood, one finishedconceit running through it like life-raftson a ship. Neither Shakespearean or Petrachanin its composition. Can be...
by Ivory Web | Dec 21, 2010 | Prose & Poetry
Cold SnapMy fridge is warmer than my kitchen.My woolly socks are really itchin’I am staying warm by all my bitchin’.Minus ten on the way to Tesco.Driving along on the ice and snow.More slippery than a manifesto.Some bugger’s turned the Gulf Stream off.Who put the...
