by Kate Birch | May 18, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
READ and HEAR their poem here. ‘Beautiful… and provoking’ Add memories of ‘long lost summers, childhood curiosity and innocence’ to that as well as an excellent metre, rhythms, imagery and wordplay and you get the reasons why “Little boy dream’ by...
by Kate Birch | May 15, 2021 | News
WE’VE WON! Today Sabotage Reviews announced that Live From the Butchery, run in association with Ink Sweat & Tears, and co-hosted by Martin Figura, Helen Ivory and Kate Birch, had won the #SabAwards21 Best Regular Spoken Word Night and that is despite the...
by Helen Ivory | May 8, 2021 | News, Poetry
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Tim Liardet, Jennifer Militello and Jenny Pagdin on Sunday 9th May at 4pm GMT This is part of our monthly ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an old...
by Kate Birch | Apr 26, 2021 | News
6am in Bole airport (after eight years) The inevitability of currency changing hands; multiples of six just momentarily effervescent, reprise! reprise! reprise! Everyone’s face looks like a clock at a certain hour; delirious in mid-applause when you hear your...
by Kate Birch | Apr 23, 2021 | News
Join us Sunday 25th April at 4pm BST on @insta.inksweatandtears to watch outgoing editor (and newly announced 2021 Ledbury Critic) Memoona Zahid talking to her successor as intern, Fahad Al-Amoudi, about all things IS&T. Fahad Al-Amoudi will be the second intern...
by Kate Birch | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
It was so so close and rather like a race in which first one contender and then the other edges out into the lead. But in the end it was Sally Festing’s ‘Sunday Mornings’ which triumphed, its gentleness, familiarity and economy of words with the sense of time, of ‘a...
