by Kate Birch | Jun 13, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
The usual strong shortlist for our May Pick of the Month, with several offerings from our Mental Health Awareness Week feature, as well as some fine poems examining life, death and heartbreak, longing and belonging. Will you choose: Joseph Blythe,‘Wallpaper’: every...
by Kate Birch | May 16, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Queer positivity It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it. Sometimes a poem just captures a moment. Elena Chamberlain’s was originally published just over a week before the Supreme Court ruling that the legal definition of a woman is based on biological...
by Kate Birch | Apr 26, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’ Voters loved the language of the poem, its spirituality and the risks it took. They were impressed by the imagery, its rhythm, its line changes. But mainly they loved how it connected them to their mothers, to their parents, to...
by Kate Birch | Apr 6, 2025 | News
We are pleased to announce the following poems as our nominations for the 2025 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem (Written). Good Luck to all; our fingers are firmly crossed. Skins My mother had a handbag made from the skin of a female cobra her brother killed...
by Kate Birch | Mar 26, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Richly written human experience ‘Intuitive’, ‘creative’, ‘brilliant’, ‘relatable’, ‘beautiful’, ‘thought-provoking’ and with quite possibly the longest title that IS&T has ever published,...
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...
