by Kate Birch | Feb 19, 2019 | 2019 poetry picks
‘This, for me, is the perfect prose poem’ was the comment of one of our voters and we don’t think it too far from the truth as we declare Oz Hardwick’s ‘Off-Peak Single’ as our Pick of the Month for January 2019. Voters loved the...
by Kate Birch | Feb 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s our first shortlist for 2019 and it is a good one. It almost feels as if all of human life teems here: the good, the bad and the very ugly – with escapes into the serene or a commonplace that is anything but common. Will you rage with Alison...
by Kate Birch | Jan 15, 2019 | 2018 poetry picks
*The word ‘beautiful’ was repeated over and over in the comments and, although it is a word sometimes overused when describing poetry, in this instance it felt just right and voters made ‘Christmas Eve tea’ by Catherine Ayres the IS&T Pick...
by Kate Birch | Jan 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
I think that we can all say that 2018 has been an ‘interesting’ year, maybe one that is glass half empty, and our Pick of the Month shortlist for December reflects this in part. With Catherine Ayres, Luigi Coppola and Laura McKee from our ’12 Days of...
by Kate Birch | Jan 5, 2019 | 2018 poetry picks
Christmas Eve tea 5 o’clock. Light silvers the sill. This is the season of curious moons, when we’re lost in the velvet of ourselves, undreaming the deep nights
between tomorrow and the past. Rooms flower slowly, like stars. Here are steep steps,...
