by Kate Birch | Apr 1, 2025 | Featured
Tricks , Etc. Poisson D’Avril Helen Ivory is poet and visual artist. She edits IS&T and teaches for Arvon. Her sixth Bloodaxe collection Constructing a Witch (2024) was a PBS Winter Recommendation. She won a Cholmondeley Award...
by Kate Birch | Mar 26, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Richly written human experience ‘Intuitive’, ‘creative’, ‘brilliant’, ‘relatable’, ‘beautiful’, ‘thought-provoking’ and with quite possibly the longest title that IS&T has ever published,...
by Kate Birch | Mar 21, 2025 | Word & Image
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves 悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团 stripped of spindly epicormic shoots, the now-knuckle-tree jabs her skeletal arms over the snapped stale breaths of pale, orange shavings powdering the tree surgeon’s yellow truck. Her psoriatic...
by Kate Birch | Mar 8, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
34 Symptoms of the Menopause A woman somewhere is typing on the internet my heart wakes me up like clockwork. Now, another woman – my whole body feels like a bee box too small for the bees. At 3am, a woman Googles ...
by Kate Birch | Mar 4, 2025 | Reviews
Janus, the second poetry collection from Catherine Ayres, is unusual in its structure, looking, as the title suggests, both forward and backward. The passage of time is important in this book. The contents page is arranged by date, and then a brief description...
