by Kate Birch | Jun 14, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
IF Grenfell Tower a Year On If trying to keep your head, you raced towards the pillar of flame and smoke choking the building, not knowing if your children, partner, mother, brother, friend were trapped inside it; if you lost one or many...
by Kate Birch | Feb 26, 2018 | Blogs & News, prizes and awards
Revisit the poems below or go to www.inksweatandtears.co.uk/pages/?cat=85. Good luck to all!
by Kate Birch | Nov 19, 2017 | Blogs & News
After nearly two months of deliberation and consideration we are pleased to announce the longlist for the Ink Sweat & Tears/Café Writers Pamphlet Commission Competition. Please click on Pamphlet Commission Competition 2017 Longlist in the menu above or go...
by Kate Birch | Sep 5, 2017 | Blogs & News
It’s a busy September for us with the deadline for our Pamphlet Commission Competition approaching on the 22nd and National Poetry Day on the 28th – we’ll be calling out for submissions on the theme of ‘Freedom’ very soon so watch...
by Kate Birch | Jul 19, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News
Out of the mouths of babes. Angelica Krikler, who wrote and submitted her poem ‘Nature’ when she was 16, streaked ahead of her fellows on the shortlist and is IS&T’s Pick of the Month for June 2017. Voters responded to the beauty of the poem and...
by Kate Birch | Jun 12, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News, prizes and awards
A definitive vote (unlike another significant, recent election) saw Jane Wilkinson’s ‘Your location’ chosen as Pick of the Month for May 2017. Some of you fell a little in love with the poem, describing it as beautiful and evocative, enjoying...
