by Kate Birch | Jun 14, 2020 | Featured
by Kate Birch | Jun 7, 2020 | Featured, News
The uncertainty, confusion and yearning that we are feeling because of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been joined by anger, frustration and devastation experienced in response to the killing of George Floyd at the end of May. And the poems on our May #PickoftheMonth...
by Kate Birch | May 18, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
There are a myriad of reasons as to why voters chose ‘To the Occupier’ by Beth Booth as the IS&T Pick of the Month for April 2020 which is a tribute to the many layers in this fine poem. Some found it haunting, melancholy, rich with emotion, some...
by Kate Birch | May 7, 2020 | Featured, News
When the pandemic movie is your own reality. It is not surprising that most of the poems on our shortlist for April 2020’s Pick of the Month hover on the edge of dystopia. Is it Sam Wilson-Fletcher’s ‘Blue’ that colours your world or what is...
by Kate Birch | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
It is perhaps no surprise during this seismic period that our March 2020 Pick of the Month should focus on that technology which holds us all together even when it drives us apart. Voters found Sanjeev Sethi’s ‘A Factory of Feelings’ moving, relevant...
