by Kate Birch | May 9, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: ‘This poem takes you by surprise…’ The title points you in one direction and then you follow it through to a completely different destination. It is for this reason, then,...
by Helen Ivory | May 6, 2022 | News
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Dzifa Benson, Hannah Jane Walker and the new IS&T editing intern The Repeat Beat Poet. This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their...
by Kate Birch | May 1, 2022 | News
A Step-By-Step Guide To Saving The British Dream First, remove all chocolate, leaving only a legally approved Dream bar. Separate the blood and sweat of children from the wealth generated by those satanic mills Look past industrialised...
by Kate Birch | Apr 14, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
It is spare, subtle and profound. These words that really do sum up Hiram Larew’s superb poem ‘Hardly’ and are an illustration of why it has been voted as the Pick of the Month for March 2022. Voters read his poem again and again to gauge the meaning behind his subtle...
by Helen Ivory | Apr 8, 2022 | News
Please join us on zoom for live readings from George Szirtes, Moniza Alvi and Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old CoOp butcher’s...
by Kate Birch | Mar 21, 2022 | News
We submitted our three nominations for 2022’s Forward Prize Best Single Poem last week and what better day to announce these on than World Poetry Day. Please join us in congratulating Celestine Stilwell, Elizabeth Sennitt Clough and L Kiew and revisit their...
