by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Angel of Fear He turns up at night, when clocks stop, parading his wings like a white peacock. Shh! I say, It’s late and I cannot sleep. But he is just there spinning the News. He does not drink, puffs menthols sadly and scuffles around like an...
by Kate Birch | Oct 19, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan’s poem ‘The Anatomy of Boys’ spoke to so many, and it is for this reason that this ‘fascinating’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘inspiring’ poem is the IS&T Pick of the month for September 2020....
by Kate Birch | Oct 11, 2020 | Featured, News
Our shortlist for September 2020’s Pick of the Month has a distinctly international feel about it, as we take off from Josephine Lay’s Gloucestershire and head for Ireland – K.S. Moore (via Wales) and DS Maolalai – and beyond to Tunisia’s Ilhem...
by Kate Birch | Sep 18, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
‘Evocative and charming, a modern day folk tale’, a comment on Lucy Atkinson’s ‘Sunspot’, perfectly summing up why this fine poem is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2020. Lucy is a North-East born writer studying a MA in...
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...