by Kate Birch | Sep 6, 2018 | Blogs & News, prizes and awards
We are beyond excited to be able to announce that Kate Edwards’ poem ‘Frequency Violet’, which charmed and delighted us and was Pick of the Month for November 2017, has been Highly Commended in the 2018 Forwards Prizes following our submission of it...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 12, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, prizes and awards, Prose & Poetry
Those wild, pre-Brexit days after Josephine Corcoran Do you remember those wild, pre-Brexit days when immigrants filled our seas with their bodies, floated death onto our beaches forced us to see images of dead immigrant children while we were eating our...
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 | Jan 16, 2018 | 2017 poetry picks, prizes and awards
All you want for December’s Pick of the Month is ‘the cumquats of christmas past’. This strong and beautiful poem by Ali Whitelock had a profound effect on the voters and, for many, left a powerful impression long after reading it. It was,...
by Kate Birch | Dec 15, 2017 | 2017 poetry picks, prizes and awards
As ever it was a close-run contest but ‘Frequency Violet’ charmed the voters and Kate Edwards’ poem is our Pick of the Month for November 2017. With comments such as ‘unique and interesting’, ‘quirky’ 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...
