by Ivory Web | Feb 26, 2009 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
In the words of Mandy – that's Brian's mother in the Monty Python movie The Life of Brian – I have been a naughty, naughty boy for not keeping up with our podcasts. Today we have two poems by my good friend and an excellent (and I think under-rated) poet...
by Ivory Web | Feb 25, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
I’m taking the coats tonight I’m taking the coats tonight – in a world of fingers that forget to tip, it is my blue jumper trail-threadwhich touches your palmthis eveningbefore the show before you place it on her naked backwhere the Dior black,...
by Ivory Web | Feb 24, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
i know a dancerand she walks with the grace of a dreama billowing message of the worlds goodnessand it fills you from all angles and lifts you to say‘Hush, it’s okay’and that’s all you wanted to hear anyway.and the kiss of her lips to the fumes of the ashkissing the...
by Ivory Web | Feb 23, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Heaven and Earth It has been a long, hot, humid summer and my wife and I are exhausted and a little bored so we stop by the video store, take out Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth – Vietnam through the life of a young Vietnamese woman. We watch it and get reminded...
by Ivory Web | Feb 22, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
We haven't carried any flash fiction for a while so here's a piece from regular IS&T contributor Mike Montreuil. He says this started as a invented/imaginary haibun but it got too long – and that he still doesn't know if it will make people...
by Ivory Web | Feb 20, 2009 | Prose & Poetry
Regular IS&T contributor (and Austrian resident) Gwilym Williams has just translated these two short poems by the late Christine Busta from the original German. The poems were first published Busta's collection Wenn du das Wappen der Liebe malst…Gedichte...
