by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 22, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
LAUREL She keeps a vigil by lake Kournas each evening when the sun and moon are on an even keel, before their alignment shifts and tilts one upwards and the other into the arid ground. She lights a candle and recalls the chase as the flame quivers...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 21, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
High July A sunset walk in the high blue, one of those days that stretches so far you can’t believe the morning belongs to the afternoon, or that either could ever become a night. I would have been here sooner but I was busy cleaning up the mess...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 20, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Ian in the Student House Palmer Park Avenue, Reading, c.2003 I remember this entrance hall, long and painted darkly. There’s a cat, too, somewhere amongst the bins or out in the park across the road. The view from the bay window is not much...
by Fahad Al-Amoudi | Jun 19, 2021 | Featured, Poetry
Happen Yesterday the sea was at our shoulder but we couldn’t see it. Long after the fog had drifted over us Wolf Rock Lighthouse was still reminding us in its old fashioned, diaphragmatic way to take care of sudden precipices and overhangs, as...
by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2021 | News
We are thrilled that the Poetry Book Society has chosen Gail McConnell’s pamphlet Fothermather from IS&T Press as one of the six books in their FATHER’S DAY GIFT GUIDE along with Six (Zaffar Kunial), My father (Eduardo Moga), Noctuary (Niall Campbell),...
