by Kate Birch | Jun 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
We’ve a heady mix in our Pick of the Month shortlist for May. Perhaps it is Spring in the air that sees the subject matters range from Barbie’s indignity and Blake’s flea through ‘a man who was definitely elsewhere’, a touch of the...
by Kate Birch | May 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
It’s a bank holiday weekend (in the UK) and the sun is shining (in most of the UK) so it may be a wrench to tear yourself away from the park, the seaside, the barbecue and the Pimms. However, we have some amazing poets shortlisted for our April 2018 Pick...
by Kate Birch | Apr 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
With poems on Hollywood letches, political threats, the demolition of a family, the inability to save what is precious and a disturbing institution that is ‘The Venue’, you would be forgiven for thinking we have a dystopian thread running through...
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
There’s a chill in the air so maybe now’s the time to indulge in the finer things in life. Roll out some ‘Gingham’, add a display of ‘Drunken Roses’, enjoy ‘Lobster tail’ with ‘Milk and Honey’ and be...
by Kate Birch | Feb 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
The month goes by so quickly and here we are asking you again to consider who to propel forward as IS&T’s Pick of the Month. It’s very eclectic fare for January and with poems in so many different forms, the only similarities about this group...
by Kate Birch | Jan 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Are you sitting comfortably? There’s a storybook feel for most of the shortlist for our final Pick of the Month for 2017 but, being IS&T, we are always telling it slant! Please make your choice from the poems below (or see the ‘Vote for your Pick of...
