by Ivory Web | Sep 21, 2011 | Reviews
Writing Your Self: Transforming Personal Material Myra Schneider & John Killick (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010, ISBN 978 1 8470 6252 9, Paperback: £16.99 259pp)It was back in the 80s, a time when I wrote loads of reviews for a multiplicity of...
by Ivory Web | Sep 14, 2011 | Reviews
Micrographia by Robert Dickinson. Waterloo Press 51pp. £9.00‘Micrographia’ is a medical term for the abnormally small, cramped handwriting often associated with Parkinson’s disease. Yet the word also suggests ‘Micrography’, a technique of building up pictures...
by Ivory Web | Sep 8, 2011 | Reviews
Defending Sinclair’s TitleAnother Use of Canvas, Angus Sinclair (24pp, £5.00, Gatehouse Press)Sinclair is both wrestler and poet, a paradox immediately addressed in his debut pamphlet’s title, which introduces tensions between wrestling as entertainment, and as...
by Ivory Web | Aug 29, 2011 | Reviews
Keep it in the FamilyHost, Sarah Hymas (103 pp, £10, Waterloo Press)Hymas’ engaging debut collection comes in two parts. Around two thirds of the book consists of poems which form an episodic, chronological family saga spanning four generations. This novel structure...
by Ivory Web | Aug 26, 2011 | Reviews
Betty Herbert The 52 Seductions, Headline Publishing Group, 2011. £12.99I must confess that I began to read this book with some trepidation. Not having read the original blog I imagined it would a cruder version of Sex in the City. However the narrator Betty has a...
by Ivory Web | Aug 2, 2011 | Reviews
Folk Behind BarsThe Privilege of Rain, David Swann, Waterloo Press 2010, £10David Swann’s first collection springs directly from his time as Writer in Residence at HMP Nottingham Prison. It poses a number of questions: how much humanity should we grant prisoners? Is...
