by Kate Birch | Feb 21, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful. Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable This shortlist was all about lives – lives born, lives saved, lives lived, lives lost – and it is perhaps fitting that the poem that came first with voters was that which looked...
by Kate Birch | Feb 11, 2025 | Featured, Poetry
Denizens Mice live in the London Tube. A train leaves and small pieces of sooty black detach themselves from the sooty black walls and forage for crumbs in the rubbish under the rails that are death to man. You can’t see their feet move. They...
by Kate Birch | Jan 20, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line It was one of the closest contests that we have had in some months, that in the end saw ‘A Town of Shadows’ emerge as the Pick of the Month for December 2024. Voters found it evocative, emotive, gritty...
by Kate Birch | Jan 13, 2025 | News
APPLICATIONS FOR THIS ARE CURRENTLY CLOSED. Ink Sweat & Tears inksweatandtears.co.uk is an online poetry and prose magazine that publishes something new every day as well as featuring word & image, filmpoems and reviews. The IS&T intern is a paid editing...
by Kate Birch | Dec 26, 2024 | Twelve Days of Christmas, Word & Image
26th December in the Quiet That comes Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and artist whose work has been widely published internationally. Her award-winning haiku collection, ‘Random Blue Sparks’, is forthcoming from...
