by Kate Birch | Apr 14, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News
Our poem for International Women’s Day, Jessica Mookherjee’s ‘Stranger’, has been voted as the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2017, its mystical aura and the beauty of the language having seduced our readers. Jessica is originally from...
by Kate Birch | Apr 13, 2017 | Prose & Poetry
End of Term You shovelled the snow an alibi for waiting at the gate until I came home fresh from university with one of those totem scarves. You blushed with pleasure but couldn’t look up when my lift dropped me off your frozen spade searching for...
by Kate Birch | Apr 4, 2017 | Blogs & News
Once again it is time to vote for our Pick of the Month so spare a few minutes away from deliberating over the excellent shortlists for the 2017 Saboteur Awards and choose from the fine IS&T poets and poems listed below, or see the ‘Vote for your Pick of the Month...
by Kate Birch | Mar 13, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks
Pick of the Month time and February’s choice is ‘In my father’s pocket’ from Moray Sanders. Moray has written prose with the support of Creative Future for some years; through them she then won a mentoring opportunity with New Writing South and...
by Kate Birch | Mar 10, 2017 | prizes and awards
Jay does it again and more! March 2018: Nothing to do with us this time but Jay Bernard has won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry (2017) for Surge: Side A. This ‘was performed at the Roundhouse as part of The Last Word Festival 2017, investigating the...
