by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
After a hard fought contest – it always is – Anne Ryland’s ‘stunning’ ‘original’ ‘vivid and unexpected’ prose poem ‘In Her Bones’ is the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month for May 2018. And it is...
by Kate Birch | Jun 14, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
IF Grenfell Tower a Year On If trying to keep your head, you raced towards the pillar of flame and smoke choking the building, not knowing if your children, partner, mother, brother, friend were trapped inside it; if you lost one or many...
by Kate Birch | Jun 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
We’ve a heady mix in our Pick of the Month shortlist for May. Perhaps it is Spring in the air that sees the subject matters range from Barbie’s indignity and Blake’s flea through ‘a man who was definitely elsewhere’, a touch of the...
by Kate Birch | May 18, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
There is Nothing to Me But Sea O for a paddle in a piddle of the sea, a heart-curled drool of cool salinity. Ah for the spittle of the dregs of the sea, a fontful immersion in an estuary. I’m famished for foam – fathom and floe fluvial firths...
by Kate Birch | May 13, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
Perhaps it was the long hot days of the bank holiday weekend and beyond when most of you placed your votes, and many ran free with their own ‘Wildlings’, but Marie-Françoise de Saint-Quirin’s poem is the IS&T Pick of the Month for April....
