by Helen Ivory | Mar 2, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Ghost I was outside in the square dull of garden when I realised I couldn’t draw a ghost. The page waited patiently like the future and my eye held what was supposed to fill it. The narrow path which didn’t deserve its name was an...
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2020 | Featured, News
Do please read these fine poems below, go to https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/?cat=118 or click on ‘2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry Entries’ in the categories list to your right. Good luck to all!
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2020 | Featured, News, Poetry
In 2011, IS&T publisher Kate Birch established the The Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship (MA) at the University of East Anglia (UEA); Konstantin Nicholas Rega is its ninth recipient. Memoona Zahid is the second student to be awarded The Birch Family...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 29, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Eliza Traill All her names The hare. A long way from blue. What is the third thing? Twelve snow buntings in a shadow house. What she sees A large stone lintel. A hollow enclosed in a curved wall. Small white bones. A now completed circle. The...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 28, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Meditation on Your Bare Feet In the fruit-apple crimp of glamour and fizzing pressures I found your feet, your painted nails, So Much Fawn, a rose-colored soul, flagrance of motions, though you were miles away; the image of a small rose on the...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 27, 2020 | Featured, Poetry
Dinner in the Fields I remember you arriving to the fields when we saved the hay, bringing the sweet taste of dinners, encased in Tupperware, sitting sheltered under haycocks, in the warm sun. We rested our young bodies from sweating our work,...
