by Kate Birch | Dec 13, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
We have all been there. And that is why Skendha Singh’s simple yet effective, still yet biting, accessible yet intense poem ‘Dear -‘, punctuating the end of a relationship, is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2018. Skendha graduated...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 2, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Narrowing Fog inhabits the air so as I walk through cloud shadow I find another beside me, her breath condensing on my hair drawing me into the grey no-light that sprawls around, ensnaring me in a long drawn-out dawn where all I can see lies at...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 30, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
We observe this word, abscission turn fashionable, hang in air. Once botanists’ part-property, at least cased in scientific sights; now – in this most now of times – it’s ours. Perhaps this year holds terms longer, closer than is usual. Leaves in...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 24, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
While the rope creaks The tall red haired girl recollects that she has balanced on the frayed tips of forests the mutant skins of rivers the sawn edges of seas that her precarious symmetry has taken her along the uncertain beam of the world but now she...
by Helen Ivory | Nov 17, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Dear – or, maybe not dear. Or dear, as addressed to an editor, an employer, a stranger one has business with. But, not a stranger, intimate – like an ex, but not estranged, close as a friend, watchful like a long-nosed neighbour. You...
by Kate Birch | Nov 16, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks
Rarely has an IS&T Pick of the Month reflected so entirely things as they are now. Four young men, ages 15-22, stabbed in south London between the 2nd and 6th November is four too many and Gboyega Odubanjo’s ‘Obit.’, though written and...
