by Kate Birch | Jan 20, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
It was December and it is IS&T so you know that our shortlist for that month would be that little bit slanted, that little bit skewed, particularly with half the offerings from our ’12 Days of…’ feature and the others all too real, or surreal....
by Kate Birch | Jan 13, 2025 | News
WE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR INTERNS FOR 4-MONTHLY SLOTS TO BEGIN IN MARCH, JULY AND NOVEMBER 2025. PLEASE APPLY BEFORE 3RD FEBRUARY 2025. Ink Sweat & Tears inksweatandtears.co.uk is an online poetry and prose magazine that publishes something new every day as well as...
by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
The random uneasy moments resolve into the bluntness of grief. Honest and real. The vote this time was oh so close, perhaps the closest it has been for some years. But in the end it was the beautiful, moving simplicity of Stephen Keeler’s ‘Something about...
by Kate Birch | Nov 17, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
Her work beautifully expresses an unimaginable challenge. This poem inspired voters and it moved them. But many also noted how beautiful it was, how powerful and visceral and how it was able to give a sense of not only the emotional upheaval the poet experiences but...
by Kate Birch | Nov 1, 2024 | News
Brown girls’ anthem A Golden Shovel after ‘Call Me by Your Name’ by André Aciman We die so many deaths before we turn twenty. We, the schoolyard Kardashians. We sew our stories, rip them out as the schoolbus pulls up at our door. We out cast our vile tongues so...
by Kate Birch | Oct 19, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off… ‘The Last Person on Earth’ took hold of the IS&T Pick of the Month voters for September. The poem was ‘punchy powerful and...
