by Kate Birch | May 2, 2014 | Blogs & News
The standard of entries this year was so high that when it came right down to it we simply could not decide between two excellent poets whose poems and proposals complemented each other so well. Therefore, after securing additional funding, we are able to...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 13, 2013 | Blogs & News
We are currently reading submissions for our annual 12 Days of Christmas feature. As you may have gathered, we have quite a slanted approach to the festive season, so please have a look at our previous ’12 Days’ features for guidance. And perhaps taking...
by Kate Birch | Dec 12, 2013 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
To mark today’s official launch at The Book Hive in Norwich of IS&T Press’ first publication TWELVE Slanted Poems for Christmas we are posting first lines/excerpts from each of the fine poems featured in it. Factory Spirit by Bobby Parker ...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 22, 2013 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
Smells as Sweet He said it with flowers: one dozen red roses to smother love and patch a broken heart. It wasn’t enough. A thousand roses wouldn’t have been...
by Helen Ivory | Jun 10, 2013 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
The Café Writers Norfolk Commission was established five years ago by the Norwich-based writers network Café Writers, in collaboration with Ink Sweat & Tears, under the patronage of Kate Birch and Dominic Christian, and published by Gatehouse Press. Every...
by Kate Birch | May 20, 2013 | Blogs & News
On Friday, US poet Charles O Hartman (current Professor and Poet in Residence at Connecticut College) contacted us to let us know that the poem ‘Dead Wife Singing’, posted on IS&T on 8th April, is virtually identical to ‘A Little...