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...
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...
