by Ivory Web | Sep 18, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
The musician speaks of the PacificWe are the something of sirens this, our urgent-sound:laughter deepening an acreageof littered whisperings; eyelash sea-greens.Steady me. In this breeze, moments come free. Place your hands on my shoulders and I’ll...
by Ivory Web | Jul 29, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
your eye protects the soft-toed snowdrop I tether the thin white legs with a finger of soft soil a scraggling, harboured by worms *Poem by Helen Pletts whose two collections, Bottle bank and For the chiding dove, are both published by YWO/Legend...
by Ivory Web | Jul 7, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Allow yourself this one dayhungover from love. To sit in your sad cocoonbed-lain on lemon bon bon sheets and sick with ache,cuddling your bones. Let the day roll into night.Do not fret about the red numbers in your account,about deadlines and business worries; pick up...
by Ivory Web | Jun 22, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
*Ira Lightman makes public art in the North East, and lately Willenhall and Southampton. He devises visual poetry forms and then asks local communities to supply words that will bring them alive. He is a regular on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb. Duetcetera (Shearsman,...
by Ivory Web | May 29, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
YoungThe yarrow, the bulrush, the burdockthe long-stemmed wheatgrass, a single irisleaning like one of the paparazzifor an exclusive front page shot line the path either side of a girl runningas though she might be dreaming she escapesthe applause of a crowd round the...
by Ivory Web | May 27, 2011 | Prose & Poetry, Word & Image
Alchemy Your face like a kitten, small in the morning, where two commas mark a smile broad enough to section the heart of a lamband turn a pressed coin of copper the likeness of aurum. Was it a fool’s morning, that set me bright on my way my ventricles...
