by Kate Birch | Apr 20, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
This poem is pure enchantment. The captivating vocabulary intensely immersive imagery had the hairs on the back of my neck prickled from the outset. Voters loved the imagery, the descriptive power of this poem. They found it evocative, eerie, heart-wrenching. And for...
by Kate Birch | Apr 19, 2024 | Word & Image
Little Kit Precious leveret gently slumber in your nest of brushed red velvet Charlotte Holm is a textile artist living in East Yorkshire. She recently started writing poetry and is excited about combining this with her love of textiles to create...
by Kate Birch | Apr 19, 2024 | News
Keen to develop your writing and stagecraft? Ink Sweat & Tears asks three top poets to share some tips by Tim Relf Finding time to write is a big hurdle for most people, says Holly Winter-Hughes. ‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best...
by Kate Birch | Apr 15, 2024 | More Word & Image
17 small acts of ending an ambulance stuck in traffic the picturesque potential of fallen barns library books scattered to charity shops a footpath stopped up or overgrown widening gaps between starlings a vodka bottle dumped in crocuses a Mini twice the size...
by Kate Birch | Apr 8, 2024 | Reviews
The epigraph to Owen Lewis’s new work of poetry, Knock-knock (Dos Madres Press, 2024), makes reference to a quote from the Porter in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, which many see as a very welcome break from all the madness and murder taking place in the play, meant...
