by Kate Birch | Sep 27, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Cousin dear cousin how are you over on that side. i hear you lot get a bit of sun and field. does the heat cling. we don’t get much on this side. i’m not sure if you get much smog. sometimes it looks like there’s more of us than there are but then...
by Kate Birch | Sep 26, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Classified we do not know the name black boy aged twelve well-set with a good grasp of english has run described as agreeable no vices the young fellow believed to be between eleven and fifteen has been reported missing from listed...
by Kate Birch | Sep 25, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Loving the Social Anthropologist Almería His country was hot, his economy informal. His method was covert – participant observation. Before dawn in the square, he would watch the men gather collecting in shadows and concentric circles – the...
by Kate Birch | Sep 17, 2023 | Picks of the Month
Such vibrant imagery, and sense of movement. From a brilliant and varied shortlist, Rosie Garland’s ‘Poem inspired by an imaginary painting by Leonora Carrington’ has emerged as the IS&T Pick for July/August 2023. Voters praised the poem for its...
by Kate Birch | Sep 16, 2023 | Filmpoems
Golden Hour Over great absences speckled with birds wings, a spell is lifted – dusk like a recited dance. Routine splashes gold on chimneys and paves cobblestones with colour. Breath hangs between footfalls in gasps. Stacked houses watch through...
