by Kate Birch | Mar 22, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
We move from the sublime to the surreal in February’s Pick of the Month shortlist, from milk and lunch breaks through barbecue to the Wonder Oven and a land without clocks, from the freedom of remission to love birds’ not-so-gilded cage. It’s a rich...
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2025 | News
WHEN THE FLOWERS ARRIVE TOO LATE No flowers came till she caught him cheating that May, her apartment unfurled with wreaths of pleas yet, the soothing scent of petals couldn’t stir the dead butterflies in her gut often, we attempt to nectar morgued hearts with...
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 | 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 NOW CLOSED. WE ARE NOW LOOKING FOR INTERNS FOR 4-MONTHLY SLOTS TO BEGIN IN MARCH, JULY AND NOVEMBER 2025. PLEASE APPLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT 3RD FEBRUARY 2025. Ink Sweat & Tears inksweatandtears.co.uk is an online poetry and prose magazine that...
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...
