by Kate Birch | Sep 8, 2023 | News
I first saw Gboyega Odubanjo read as part of open mic at Café Writers in Norwich in 2017 when he was one of a group of students on UEA’s MA poetry course who had come to support Anna Cathenka, that year’s Ink Sweat & Tears Scholar. I don’t remember the...
by Kate Birch | Sep 1, 2023 | Word & Image
Looking down at the board I feel dizzy Love isdust e d vertigo a wave to chance i wait ilight Sarah-Jane Crowson’s work is inspired by fairytales, nature, psychogeography and surrealism. Her work can be seen in various journals, including The...
by Kate Birch | Aug 28, 2023 | Featured, News
In 2011, IS&T publisher Kate Birch established the The Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship (MA) at the University of East Anglia (UEA); Freya Bantiff is its twelfth recipient. Kana is the fourth student to be awarded The Birch Family Scholarship set...
by Kate Birch | Aug 14, 2023 | Filmpoems
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili Open the rock. There, by the river where a streak of blood is so thin it cannot be alarming. Split the rock in half and you will find cooked ham, bubbling white fat and a small piece of me. There, by your milky feet are certain...
by Kate Birch | Jul 15, 2023 | Filmpoems
From Maps of the Abandoned City, published by SurVision. This Video was published on IS&T to launch our revamped web site in January 2021. It had originally been featured on Roger Foyster’s YouTube Channel in May 2020. Helen...