by Kate Birch | Jul 1, 2024 | News
Offals The flavours of home are off-putting. Offals, glands, chitterlings; this last one, we call chinchulínes, my favourite. I always liked the name, the word’s aftertaste greasy like a swallow flying to better places leaving the ovenbird behind to build its...
by Kate Birch | Jun 24, 2024 | Reviews
‘There is that kind of heat / in some hands’, S. Preston Duncan writes in his richly lyric poem ‘You Don’t Steal from the Witch’s Garden’ – and this extraordinary poet could be speaking of his own poetry – which blazes with a rare and precious artistic fire. In...
by Kate Birch | Jun 14, 2024 | Filmpoems
The Crossing There is a secret spotin every town and city –step in the right placeat the right time and paceand the world disappearsas if it had never beenanything more substantialthan a passing miracle. Listen carefully to your body’satoms, hear every...
by Kate Birch | Jun 8, 2024 | Picks of the Month
It stopped me in my tracks. I was there by the graveside full of emotion and discomfort and – now I feel disturbed but compassionate One voter’s words that very much summed up why Jenny Mitchell’s ‘What Part of Me?’ is the IS&T Pick...
by Kate Birch | Jun 7, 2024 | Word & Image
Jonathan Edis is a dad, lecturer & osteopath in London. He’s in several poetry groups & a rep for Forest Hill Stanza. He’s been published by Ink Sweat & Tears and was highly commended in the AUB Poetry Prize 2022. Instagram:...
