by Kate Birch | Nov 17, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
It was a tightly fought contest and from a dark and sombre shortlist, Sally Beets’ wonderfully caustic ‘Tree Surgery’ emerged as the overall winner and Pick of the Month for October. Maybe we all just needed to vent! Sally is a poet and Young...
by Kate Birch | Oct 14, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
A surge in voting in the final hours saw Angharad Walker just pip her nearest rival at the post with her moving ‘Leda Meets Helen’, a superb example of how much can be said in only a few words. Angharad graduated from the University of Warwick with...
by Kate Birch | Aug 10, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
It was a particularly powerful and emotional shortlist this month out of which Theophilus Kwek’s transcendent ‘Psalm 19′ emerged as the overall winner. Theo is the author of three collections, They Speak Only Our Mother Tongue (2011), Circle Line...
by Kate Birch | Aug 10, 2016 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
#TheWritingLife is a hash tag sometimes used by writers on social media to vent their frustrations with lines of poetry, chapter openings and recalcitrant characters that refuse to fit in. But what about when that writing life means each and every line you compose...
by Kate Birch | Jun 15, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, Blogs & News
Vicky Morris’ ‘Ghosted’ clearly resonated with many voters to emerge as Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month for May 2016. Vicky writes poetry and short stories. She runs groups and projects for young writers. In 2013 she made the...
by Kate Birch | Jun 9, 2016 | Blogs & News, Word & Image
Forty colour plates in 45 pages with the text, as Graham Rawle puts it, ‘carefully teased from long-forgotten books and reconstructed with serendipitous aplomb’. A true celebration of the poetico-visual, Helen Ivory’s ‘Hear What the Moon Told Me’ is...
