by Ivory Web | May 28, 2010 | Reviews
Snow Calling by Agnieszka Studzinska Salt Publishing 2010 ISBN:978 – 1 – 84471 – 559 – 6 Hardback: £12.99 45pp“I was going to say something, / and stopped”. Polish-born Agnieszka Studzinska’s choice, for the epigraph to her...
by Ivory Web | May 12, 2010 | Reviews
Yes, by Caroline Gilfillan, Hawthorne Press, 2009: £5The title of Caroline Gilfillan‘s pamphlet seems to represent the collective affirmation of all her characters who engage in intensely passionate relationships, whether as lovers or friends. What makes the...
by Ivory Web | May 3, 2010 | Reviews
This is part of new series called Ten Questions in which IS&T will be talking to small presses. Here, Director of Nasty Little Press, Luke Wright supplies the answers.Ten Questions Name: Nasty Little PressDOB: 01 September 2009Home town: Norwich,...
by Ivory Web | Apr 23, 2010 | Reviews
Carole Bromley Skylight, Smith/Doorstop 2009, £5 ISBN 978-1-906613-08-2 Carole Bromley strikes me as a keenly observant poet. The poems in her pamphlet Skylight brim with the minute particulars of daily life. Much of this collection is set in the 50s and...
by Ivory Web | Apr 11, 2010 | Reviews
Andrew McMillan: Every Salt AdvanceRed Squirrel Press, 2009 (ISBN: 978-1-906700-00-3) £4.00In Andrew McMillan’s own words “poetry shouldn’t be about writing the extraordinary, it should be about taking the ordinary and showing it to be extraordinary.” and this is...
by Ivory Web | Apr 9, 2010 | Reviews
Anna Woodford: Party Piece The Poetry Business 2009I think the one line that best sums up Anna Woodford’s intentions in her pamphlet Party Piece comes at the end of her poem ‘Taking in the Washing’. Here she tells us ‘‘I cling to our line’s unbrokenness: it extends...
