by Kate Birch | Nov 1, 2025 | News
The Heart and the Stomach Fists of smooth muscle curl in sleep clutch at hunger. Sticky with a sick feeling they anticipate the winter tundra of empty cupboards. They are stirred into living by a shushed conversation between the Fog and the Sea. I press my face...
by Kate Birch | Oct 19, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Quietly devasting poem Fresh, alive, original, funny Voters had a range of reactions to our winning poem this month. They saw it as striking, powerful, beautiful, eloquent and ‘quietly devastating’. It was honest and to the point. It was unsettling and yet...
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...
