by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2020 | Featured, News
Do please read these fine poems below, go to https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/?cat=118 or click on ‘2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry Entries’ in the categories list to your right. Good luck to all!
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2020 | Featured, News, Poetry
In 2011, IS&T publisher Kate Birch established the The Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship (MA) at the University of East Anglia (UEA); Konstantin Nicholas Rega is its ninth recipient. Memoona Zahid is the second student to be awarded The Birch Family...
by Kate Birch | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
When we launched January’s Pick of the Month, we noted that the poems were extraordinary and they truly are. But ‘Realisation about a friend’ by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana tops the list in this case. Voters admired its simplicity and its beauty and...
by Kate Birch | Feb 9, 2020 | Featured, News
The ordinary becomes extraordinary in the shortlisted works for our first Pick of the Month for 2020 and the decade. Seemingly familiar warning signs in Rob Stuart’s Word & Image are, in fact, ‘Poetry Hazards’. Melanie Branton’s...
by Kate Birch | Jan 19, 2020 | Featured, News
For December’s Pick of the Month, the future and the state of our planet knocked everything else into touch – even the fine slant of our 12 Days of Christmas shortlisted poems – and Mick Corrigan’s ‘No more ordinary mornings’ emerged as the...
