by Kate Birch | May 19, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News
More than 250 of you voted – a record for us – leading to a sprint finish that saw ‘Cross Country’ by David Subacchi as our Pick of the Month for April 2017. This fine poem struck a nostalgic nerve with many of you although it was 50/50...
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 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 | Feb 17, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, Blogs & News
When we published our latest shortlist, we noted that it looked to the displaced and the vulnerable so it is perhaps no surprise that Rachael Smart’s ‘Waiting’, a poem that speaks to the vulnerability that is personal to so many of us, is our Pick...
by Kate Birch | Jan 17, 2017 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News, prizes and awards
We take one last lingering look back to 2016 with our final ‘picks’ for the year. Both Christmas poems, they affected us in very different ways. You chose Elisabeth Sennitt Clough’s painfully resonant ‘The Homewrecker and His Pun’ as our...
by Kate Birch | Dec 14, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News, prizes and awards
Maybe it was the sense of speed, the need to leave it all behind and yet remain ‘weirdly still in the centre’, but Christian Wethered’s ‘Blade’ raced home to be Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month for November 2016....
