by Ivory Web | Dec 14, 2008 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Although we've published the texts of these three poems by Helen Pletts before, we've now got audio recordings of Helen reading them aloud. So, as part of our podcast programme, here are the words – and the sound…Bottle bank A lean-trousered...
by Ivory Web | Dec 12, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
QuinceThey dined on mince and slices of quince which they ate with a runcible spoon.Then hand in hand on the edge of the sand they danced to the light of the moon My window's tree is amiable and strange. A quince is halfway to myth. Not of the...
by Ivory Web | Dec 11, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
PROGRAMMES dismayedby the programmeslisted forChristmas Dayin theNew Of The WorldChristmas TV guideI boughtthe Daily Starto see if therewas anything betterlisted in theirs* Colin Cross lives in Norwich and is a regular IS&T contributor
by Ivory Web | Dec 10, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Christmas CakePreparations were well advanced. It was only October but the candied peel, plump sultanas, currants and raisins had been bought and stored in the pantry for weeks. The baking of the Christmas cake required military planning. The overnight soaking of the...
by Ivory Web | Dec 9, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
Hide and Seek Today is the fourth Sunday in Trinityso the heavy brocade on the...
by Ivory Web | Dec 8, 2008 | Prose & Poetry
MORE ASPIRIN PLEASEHe lives between fiction and reality.this morning sitting in a tub of suds,deeper than the night before.She reclines naked,eating toast and whisky-marmalade,feeding crusts to the birds.Outside it is very cold,too cold to make a hand stir.In the...
