by Chloe Elliott | Dec 12, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
A cross lights up in the distance, a bird skeleton. We roll by faith my inhale dry like the hoarse wind in the lungs of a chainsmoker. Bruised night skies and a flatpack cross over factories. Where does it come from? Does it cascade down on...
by Chloe Elliott | Dec 11, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
THE SEA IS RISING The radio spits “The world is ending” and I sulk down the stairs half shame faced, mostly hungry. There is a lobster man in the stairwell that scares me — the door propped ajar like a constantly crooked finger beckoning an unknown...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 10, 2022 | Featured, Poetry
Field Trip Abercregan 1991 Even the river is dark . . . sun only gains entry through trees makes copper faces that turn as I wade. My net brushes tendrils from transparent cheekbones water framing each elegant pose: I want to put these girls on...
by Kate Birch | Dec 9, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being repeated again and again in comments, it is no surprise that Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Voters also...
by Chloe Elliott | Dec 9, 2022 | Word & Image
Right now, they’re shit, 2022 My head is still moving, 2022 Jennifer Maddock is a graphic designer from Cheshire who lives on her narrowboat on the Macclesfield canal. She has always drawn, written and recorded things that have happened. She uses...
