by Kate Birch | May 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s a bank holiday weekend (in the UK) and the sun is shining (in most of the UK) so it may be a wrench to tear yourself away from the park, the seaside, the barbecue and the Pimms. However, we have some amazing poets shortlisted for our April 2018 Pick...
by Kate Birch | Apr 21, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Scrappedbooks China fragments sank into the ceiling pond. Drifts of weaponised magazines rose from the grass. Ochre splashed with primary blocks, exclamation marks the outline sharp, even through the brume. An upturned caravan echoes a tombstone. Pulped...
by Kate Birch | Apr 17, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
At Ink Sweat & Tears we normally would be less than sanguine about ‘Letches’ receiving the honours but when this refers to Susan Richardson’s ‘powerful’ ‘vivid’ ‘amazing’ poem which had such...
by Kate Birch | Apr 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
With poems on Hollywood letches, political threats, the demolition of a family, the inability to save what is precious and a disturbing institution that is ‘The Venue’, you would be forgiven for thinking we have a dystopian thread running through...
by Kate Birch | Apr 4, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
from The Red and Yellow Nothing VIII – Somewhere in Scotland, five African men play Mancala by firelight. As they discuss the strangeness of the land they’re in, their voices are carried on a cold, salty wind: i do you know what is burning in the...
