by Kate Birch | Jun 26, 2019 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
Ink Sweat & Tears is, once again, the proud supporter of today’s Poetry Day at UEA’s Festival Of Literature for Young People (FLY) and we are also very pleased to be able to bring you the winners of 2019’s writing competition which this year was exclusively...
by Kate Birch | Jun 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
Sometimes you just need to make a stand and in many ways that is what we are seeing from our shortlisted poets for May’s Pick of the Month. Tristan Moss’s hero in ‘Origins’ is all about [holding] the origin of all things/above her wish to have...
by Kate Birch | May 17, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
Sometimes when there an abundance of excellent poetry to chose from, the IS&T Pick of the Month is the one that has the most power to move voters and so it is with ‘Vital Signs’ by Emma Baines. When you read comments such as ‘the most beautiful,...
by Kate Birch | May 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
Often when we make up our IS&T shortlists for Pick of the Month, there is a connection between the works either unintentionally because of the zeitgeist of the moment or, on rare occasions, intentionally when we feel that spirit and run with it. This time, we can...
by Kate Birch | Apr 13, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks, Word & Image
Helen Pletts has been working collaboratively with Romit Berger since 2012 and that these wonderful Word & Image pieces have been published exclusively by IS&T makes it fitting that, having been shortlisted before, they are voted as Pick of the Month...