by Kate Birch | Sep 18, 2025 | Filmpoems
Byte When it comes to technology, I’m no savvy geek I’d choose a book over a kindle any day of the week, So imagine, my phone decides it won’t work anymore, I have no choice, but to visit the Apple Store. I’m greeted by Adam ‘How can Apple help...
by Kate Birch | Sep 15, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Evocative, descriptive, challenging and uplifting The eloquence of phrase and sentiment and timing is brilliant. It is for these reasons and many more that voters chose ‘sclerenchyma’ by John Bartlett as the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2025. They...
by Kate Birch | Sep 1, 2025 | Featured, News, Poetry
Grace Phillips is the 14th student to be awarded the University of East Anglia’s Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship (MA). This was established by IS&T publisher Kate Birch in 2011 and followed seven years later by the Birch Family Scholarship, set up...
by Kate Birch | Aug 16, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it. This was a poem that mixed physics with philosophy, loss with whimsy and caught voters unawares with its perspective and observation. It is for these reasons and many more that Paul Chuks’ beautiful,...
by Kate Birch | Jul 29, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Because it is a beautiful evocation of the land/Palestine’s grief ‘Homeland’ by Rachael Clyne powerfully pinpoints the current horrors of the world, particularly the genocide in Gaza, but also speaks to the general sorrow of displacement and loss of...
