by Helen Ivory | Jul 16, 2018 | Prose & Poetry
Relics’ Requiem Behind glass, resting now, as after a long journey, putting their feet up, the relics are checked in to the cathedral treasury like so many tourists in a mid-range hotel. Formerly they were carted from place to place like family...
by Helen Ivory | Jul 15, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
Rose of Jericho I am waiting for water; do not blame my Father though he made me a curling spine of dried roots. In a home not built for foliage he did his fatherly duty to pass on only what is necessary to survive. The night I thought I became a man he...
by Kate Birch | Jul 14, 2018 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
More superb winning entries from UEA’s Festival of Literature for Young People, this time for the 11-14 year old age group. Overall Winner 11- 14 and Winner: Prose 11-14 Bluebells Mother says there used to be a type of flower called bluebells; I still...
by Kate Birch | Jul 13, 2018 | Blogs & News, Prose & Poetry
Ink Sweat & Tears once again has been a proud supporter of the Poetry Day at UEA’s Festival Of Literature for Young People (FLY) and we are also very pleased to be able to bring you the winners of 2018’s writing competition (sponsored by Gnaw...
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 Helen Ivory | Jul 11, 2018 | 2018 poetry picks, Prose & Poetry
The pursuit of the absolute It emerges then disappears again; it come and goes; it’s there and then elusively it slips away again. Fuck it. FUCK IT! It is impossible you say, head in hands. It cannot be done. Nothing is ever finished, you’d need a...
