by Kate Birch | Apr 17, 2021 | News
6am in Bole airport (after eight years) The inevitability of currency changing hands; multiples of six just momentarily effervescent, reprise! reprise! reprise! Everyone’s face looks like a clock at a certain hour; delirious in mid-applause when you hear your...
by Kate Birch | Apr 12, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
VOTING HAS CLOSED AND OUR PICK FOR MARCH 2021 WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY 19th APRIL at 5PM BST. You might call our choices for March 2021, a shortlist of two halves. Subtle delicate poems that celebrate the minutiae of life in all its wonder as we find in the warmth...
by Kate Birch | Mar 30, 2021 | News
Ink Sweat & Tears is testing the waters of Instagram live. Join us Wednesday 7th April at 5pm on @insta.inksweatandtears to watch editing intern Memoona Zahid talk to poet Gail McConnell about her IS&T Press Michael Marks Shortlisted pamphlet Fothermather as...
by Kate Birch | Mar 14, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Word & Image
my mother is with the stars my mother is with the stars the missing buckle on Orion’s belt holding my favourite constellation in check – the Universe will be organised against its will – my Earth in chaos, still Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com)...
by Kate Birch | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
Our first shortlisted filmpoem is the first to be voted Pick of the Month and what a worthy winner it is. ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals from Sleep Never Comes To Me’s Holly Chant engaged and impressed so many of you, with voters drawn to the work’s...
