by Kate Birch | Feb 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
The month goes by so quickly and here we are asking you again to consider who to propel forward as IS&T’s Pick of the Month. It’s very eclectic fare for January and with poems in so many different forms, the only similarities about this group...
by Kate Birch | Jan 16, 2018 | 2017 poetry picks, prizes and awards
All you want for December’s Pick of the Month is ‘the cumquats of christmas past’. This strong and beautiful poem by Ali Whitelock had a profound effect on the voters and, for many, left a powerful impression long after reading it. It was,...
by Kate Birch | Jan 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Are you sitting comfortably? There’s a storybook feel for most of the shortlist for our final Pick of the Month for 2017 but, being IS&T, we are always telling it slant! Please make your choice from the poems below (or see the ‘Vote for your Pick of...
by Kate Birch | Jan 6, 2018 | 2017 poetry picks
the cumquats of christmas past you hailed your taxi tuesday the eight–– eenth of february 2014 at four twenty seven p.m. i watched it approach swerve to the kerb its back doors fly open––if this was death i saw it crouched behind the wheel & jaded as...
by Kate Birch | Jan 6, 2018 | 2017 poetry picks
Mrs Winter Comes Home A whisker above zero, she appears on Slaughter Lane. Glass-winged in the glow of fairy lights, she falls to Earth as a dark, silk slip of a thing, drifting in, soft as baby breath. Poor lamb. Her body pools on the floor outside the...
