by Kate Birch | Dec 17, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
It was oh so close with only a few votes between the top group of poems but Elisabeth Sennitt Clough’s ‘Ague’ emerged from the fog to be the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2019. This intense, ‘evocative and darkly mysterious’...
by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is time once more to choose your Ink Sweat & Tears #PickoftheMonth and this, at least, is one vote where there are no bad choices. You know whatever poem you pick will be a good one and also, that when the results come in, you definitely won’t have a...
by Kate Birch | Nov 23, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
It is fitting that Helen Calcutt’s ‘A conversation with my daughter about my brother’s suicide’ is the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month for October 2019. The theme of National Poetry Day in October was Truth and what can be more truthful, more...
by Kate Birch | Nov 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
National Poetry Day was all about Truth in October and poems, featured on that day and the week that followed, from Rachel Burns (‘Truth’), Linda Rose Parkes (‘A True Version’) and Sharon Phillips (‘Something’s wrong’) have...
by Kate Birch | Nov 10, 2019 | Prose & Poetry
from Firing Pins Lost Things: Afghanistan (i-vii) (iii) Insomnia The heartbeat of the thrice-nightly Chinook a lullaby not you tonight lulla-lulla not yours tonight, nevertheless, and notwithstanding....
