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...
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...