by Kate Birch | Mar 10, 2017 | prizes and awards
Jay does it again and more! March 2018: Nothing to do with us this time but Jay Bernard has won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry (2017) for Surge: Side A. This ‘was performed at the Roundhouse as part of The Last Word Festival 2017, investigating the...
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....
by Kate Birch | Sep 16, 2016 | 2016 poetry picks, prizes and awards
August’s Pick of the Month comes with the wonderfully quirky title ‘My Mother Visits the Dissection Room’ which in itself demands that you read it. And it is clear from our voters’ response to it that the poem does not disappoint! ‘My...
