by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured, News
When finalising our shortlist for Pick of the Month for November 2020, the one thing that we could concur on was what ‘a cracking month’ it had been (in terms of IS&T poetry if nothing else!). The current crisis, both its beginning and end, features in...
by Kate Birch | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
An overwhelming response to our October Pick of the Month vote sees Amy Rafferty’s ‘Here Come the Crows’ as the ultimate winner. This beautiful, moving ‘ethereal and yet beautifully observed’ poem both spoke to the times we are living in...
by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Featured, News
A touch of menace lurks among the lines of our shortlisted poems for October’s Pick of the Month. It may be just outside the door that you cannot seem to get out of in ‘Dressed’ from Lucy Ashe or what is revealed in Niamh Haran’s...
by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
To those who don’t want poetry in GCSE It would be nice If you didn’t spend all that time Writing poetry. He could be blunt When he wanted to. All that time. What about reading it? Yes, reading too. Why read something you can’t use? I sipped my...
by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Refurbishment mum says there’s that generation that covered everything up floorboards fireplaces and now it’s like anti-clockwork searching for original décor I am moulding wet clay into figurines in an unofficial online art class in an unofficial...
