by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
It is time once more to choose your Ink Sweat & Tears #PickoftheMonth and this, at least, is one vote where there are no bad choices. You know whatever poem you pick will be a good one and also, that when the results come in, you definitely won’t have a...
by Kate Birch | Nov 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
National Poetry Day was all about Truth in October and poems, featured on that day and the week that followed, from Rachel Burns (‘Truth’), Linda Rose Parkes (‘A True Version’) and Sharon Phillips (‘Something’s wrong’) have...
by Kate Birch | Oct 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
It feels like all of life is in the September 2019 shortlist for Pick of the Month: Birth, death, love, hate, the past and the future (or lack of it.) Can you feel time in Cliff Forshaw’s ‘Ice’ slipping away or see the futility in ‘Brick By...
by Kate Birch | Sep 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
The shortlist for August’s Pick of the Month is a feast for the senses. Breathe in Gregory Kearns’ ‘Perfume’, feel the touch of cold in Aishwarya Raghu’s ‘A Poem about Frost’ and learn ‘When to stop eating chalk’...
by Kate Birch | Aug 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
There’s an energy and a restlessness that pervades the poems in our shortlist for the IS&T Pick of the Month for July! In fact, in Maxine Rose Munro’s ‘He grows’, the narrator gives birth to a ‘Restless’ that cannot be held...
by Kate Birch | Jul 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
This month our shortlist embraces everything from Death to DIY. Melanie Branton exposes the underbelly in ‘Cemetery’ while the Hell that is flat pack furniture has made its way into Helen Rye’s excellent and beautifully constructed (!) short story...
