by Kate Birch | Sep 8, 2020 | Featured, News
It’s Pick of the Month time and the shortlist for August 2020 has a definite family feel about it. Are you drawn to either John Grey or Sam Hickford as they try to make connections in ‘To a Father I Never Knew’ and ‘Familiar Tissue’, or...
by Kate Birch | Aug 17, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
The importance of family connections prevailed in voters’ minds and the wonderful ‘Eagle’ by Joanna Nissel is our Pick of the Month for July 2020, but it was an extraordinarily tight race with only a few votes in it. Voters commented again and again...
by Kate Birch | Aug 5, 2020 | Featured, News
Time once more to choose from six excellent poems by six fine poets to decide who will be Pick of the Month for July 2020. Will you subscribe to Grant Tarbard’s delightful ‘The New Testament of Dog’ or be moved by Bethany W Pope’s very...
by Kate Birch | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
Hope springs eternal… and goes, in part, towards Finola Scott’s ‘Tell me’ emerging as Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month for June 2020. ‘Stunning’, ‘beautiful’ and ‘wonderful’ were only a...
by Kate Birch | Jul 10, 2020 | Featured, News
Look through our shortlist for the Ink Sweat & Tears June 2020 Pick of the Month and you would be forgiven for thinking we had come to the end of the world. But all six poems show us out of sorrow can come such beauty. And perhaps some hope – you might be tempted...
