by Kate Birch | Apr 1, 2025 | Reviews
From the start of this very honest and reflective book, you are drawn in to the journey represented in the pages. The story starts with a meeting between Dick and Mugabi, and this weaves an innovative thread through the collection – a carefully thought out seam of...
by Kate Birch | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured
Tricks , Etc. Poisson D’Avril Helen Ivory is poet and visual artist. She edits IS&T and teaches for Arvon. Her sixth Bloodaxe collection Constructing a Witch (2024) was a PBS Winter Recommendation. She won a Cholmondeley Award...
by Kate Birch | Mar 26, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Richly written human experience ‘Intuitive’, ‘creative’, ‘brilliant’, ‘relatable’, ‘beautiful’, ‘thought-provoking’ and with quite possibly the longest title that IS&T has ever published,...
by Kate Birch | Mar 21, 2025 | Word & Image
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves 悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团 stripped of spindly epicormic shoots, the now-knuckle-tree jabs her skeletal arms over the snapped stale breaths of pale, orange shavings powdering the tree surgeon’s yellow truck. Her psoriatic...
by Kate Birch | Mar 8, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
34 Symptoms of the Menopause A woman somewhere is typing on the internet my heart wakes me up like clockwork. Now, another woman – my whole body feels like a bee box too small for the bees. At 3am, a woman Googles ...
