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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you Penny Blackburn, Fiona Larkin, Ruth Higgins
The night is filled with frost, the start of a snowfall.
The wind is hag-ridden through the forest,
keening between the branches.
On the Sixth Day of Christmas we bring you Maggie Harris, Keith J. Powell, Geraldine Stoneham
Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders
running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets
up the doorstep,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Christmas & New Year’s Message from IS&T
Enjoy the holidays. Connect with your families and friends. Keep talking, keep shouting, keep reading, keep writing. Keep hoping!
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
winterberry
the first holiday
alone
Filmpoems
Eleanor Holmes
One winter I remember he looked up and said:
‘the moon is a melon.’
We’d made a telescope out of used loo roll
to look for Father Christmas.
cw: flickering images
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Christmas & New Year’s Message from IS&T
Enjoy the holidays. Connect with your families and friends. Keep talking, keep shouting, keep reading, keep writing. Keep hoping!
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
winterberry
the first holiday
alone
Filmpoems
Eleanor Holmes
One winter I remember he looked up and said:
‘the moon is a melon.’
We’d made a telescope out of used loo roll
to look for Father Christmas.
cw: flickering images
Previously featured
On the Seventh Day of Christmas we bring you Penny Blackburn, Fiona Larkin, Ruth Higgins
The night is filled with frost, the start of a snowfall.
The wind is hag-ridden through the forest,
keening between the branches.
On the Sixth Day of Christmas we bring you Maggie Harris, Keith J. Powell, Geraldine Stoneham
Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders
running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets
up the doorstep,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Read and Hear it Here: Clara-Læïla Laudette’s ‘The purpose’ is our Pick of the Month for September 2025. Huge Congratulations!
‘Quietly devasting poem’
‘Fresh, alive, original, funny’
Reviews
Shannon Clinton-Copeland on Lewis Buxton
“Every poem in Mate Arias is a supporting column in the architecture of a tenderly rendered pantheon to friendship and the myriad forms of platonic love, particularly between men. The pamphlet is made up of twenty-three sonnets, each a vignette of affection, contemplation and memory.”
Chris Hardy on Quentin Cowdry
The poems are carefully structured in regular stanzas, with well-paced, rhythmical lines and deft use of enjambment. The various subjects and themes, which differentiate and unite the work, are built on close observation of the world, of nature and human experience, and how we relate to and respond to it.
In Praise of … Mat Riches on Robin Houghton
Given how much she does for the poetry community—the Planet Podcast series with Peter Kenny, her monthly submissions newsletter, her blog posts, her books on getting published, launching a publisher with other folks, etc., it’s heartwarming to see the attention being placed back on Robin’s writing.