A double act of misunderstood love

This is a double act, starting with a short prose poem Angel by IS&T editor Charles Christian and followed by Unravelling, a response written by East Anglian poet Beverly Ellis. There is also a soundfile containing a recording of these two poems being read.Angel...

New Billy Collins animation

It's the weekend – and a public holiday across much of Europe – so here's another Billy Collins animation. In this one Collins reads his poem Walking Across the Atlantic with animation by Mike Stolz of Manic.

Chris Major is angry

For those of you out of the loop… Ian Tomlinson was a 47-year-old newspaper seller who, on his way home from work last week, became caught up in the G20 demonstrations in the City of London – and collapsed and died of a heart attack. So far, so sad but now...