by Kate Birch | Oct 23, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
it’s upbeat, joyous and just carries you along And it is for this reason that this euphoric poem of ‘tumbled thoughts’ emerged as the Pick of the Month for September 2023. Tim’s poetry has appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, The Spectator,...
by Kate Birch | Oct 23, 2023 | Featured, Prose
Childhood’s Cave The worst times were Thursdays. They were the weekly meetings, when things were assigned, calculated, declared. A reprimand or an insult always brought her father home in the worst of moods. Her mother, on edge, the frozen mask of...
by Kate Birch | Oct 9, 2023 | Word & Image
Helen Ivory’s sixth Bloodaxe collection ‘Constructing a Witch’ is due in October 2024. She is editor for Ink Sweat & Tears and teaches online for NCW/UEA. Wunderkammer New and Selected Poems is published in the US by MadHat Press. She has...
by Kate Birch | Oct 8, 2023 | Word & Image
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of Strange’s poems and artworks have been published worldwide....
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2023 | Word & Image
Rising Head against cheek, arms holding tight, they rise from the water like disembodied ghosts. No words to explain from where they have come. The sea is a foreign place. Not all will escape. Sue Wallace-Shaddad’s pamphlet with artist Sula...