by Kate Birch | Jun 8, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s the near-apocalyptic world we are living in, the raging pandemic, the creep of global warming. Maybe it’s simply the depth, beauty and nuance of this startling poem. Whatever the reason, voters chose Jayant Kashyap’s ‘Twas a long summer...
by Kate Birch | May 18, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
READ and HEAR their poem here. ‘Beautiful… and provoking’ Add memories of ‘long lost summers, childhood curiosity and innocence’ to that as well as an excellent metre, rhythms, imagery and wordplay and you get the reasons why “Little boy dream’ by...
by Kate Birch | May 15, 2021 | News
WE’VE WON! Today Sabotage Reviews announced that Live From the Butchery, run in association with Ink Sweat & Tears, and co-hosted by Martin Figura, Helen Ivory and Kate Birch, had won the #SabAwards21 Best Regular Spoken Word Night and that is despite the...
by Kate Birch | May 12, 2021 | Word & Image
Let the nurses laugh Let the nurses laugh it feels as if laughter has left us I watch your careful hands make a cardboard house for our cat touching the tape; I know your hands have washed corpses spoken to their spirits as calmly as you speak to me now your...
by Kate Birch | Apr 26, 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...
