A poem sequence and an interview with Molly Pearson, the 2016/2017 recipient of the Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship at the University of East Anglia.

by Kate Birch | Aug 1, 2017 | Interviews

  The following three poems are part of a sequence that explores the connection between natural phenomena and bodily affect.   specimens   #1 i will give a proof of my zeal: one day, on tearing off some old bark, i saw two rare beetles & seized one...

Two poems and an interview with Joanna Hollins, the 2015/2016 recipient of the Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship at the University of East Anglia.

by Kate Birch | Aug 1, 2016 | Interviews, Prose & Poetry

  Iona   i The losing of faith isn’t easy. So many years and words – times you’ve sat, half-drunk on divinity or cider, arguing the case, cases, offered prayer, wisdom, verses – it gathers in crooks, fills in where bits of you are absent. After service when all...

A poem and an interview with Bee Sparks, the 2014/2015 recipient of the Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship at the University of East Anglia.

by Kate Birch | Oct 1, 2015 | Interviews

    Nola 1.   Yasmine and I are sat in the yard with its gates like painted toothpicks I flick my broken lighter against the wind hands shaking from three cigarettes in row thumb stained blow-torch black, hoping Wheelchair Guy doesn’t wheel by Do you...

A poem and an interview with Katharine Duckney, the 2013/2014 recipient of the Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship at the University of East Anglia.

by Helen Ivory | Apr 2, 2014 | Interviews

      Gamete   When you talk about the children you’d rather have with the future instead of my body – the mirror, the basin, the walls go. I feel the black-pink dark of a shutting rose.   Blank knocking of spines in the night, back to...

A poem and an interview with Jennifer Grey, the 2012 recipient of the new Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship at the University of East Anglia.

by Helen Ivory | Apr 10, 2013 | Interviews

  Seven Conversations with the Undertaker   I You turn the lights on when you come home: tobaccoflame, click, spark.   II You put splinters in your hands at work again, shutting the lids one by one. You close your eyes. I ask about tetanus jabs. You put...

Helen Ivory answers six questions about editing IS&T

by Helen Ivory | Apr 16, 2012 | Interviews

Here’s a little interview I did for blogger Jim Harrington about editing IS&T : http://sixquestionsfor.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/six-questions-for-helen-ivory-editor.html