by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
VOTING HAS NOW CLOSED. WATCH THIS SPACE TO DISCOVER THE DECEMBER 2020 PICK OF THE MONTH. New year, new web site and a final vote for Pick of the Month for 2020. And it was a dark December in more ways than one. Will you choose Lucien Linwood’s gut wrenching...
by Kate Birch | Dec 23, 2020 | Video
Poem from Helen Ivory’s chapbook Maps of the Abandoned City, published by SurVision. Performed, illustrated and recorded by Roger Foyster. Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. Her fifth Bloodaxe collection is The Anatomical Venus (2019). She edits...
by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured, News
When finalising our shortlist for Pick of the Month for November 2020, the one thing that we could concur on was what ‘a cracking month’ it had been (in terms of IS&T poetry if nothing else!). The current crisis, both its beginning and end, features in...
by Kate Birch | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
An overwhelming response to our October Pick of the Month vote sees Amy Rafferty’s ‘Here Come the Crows’ as the ultimate winner. This beautiful, moving ‘ethereal and yet beautifully observed’ poem both spoke to the times we are living in...
by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Featured, News
A touch of menace lurks among the lines of our shortlisted poems for October’s Pick of the Month. It may be just outside the door that you cannot seem to get out of in ‘Dressed’ from Lucy Ashe or what is revealed in Niamh Haran’s...
