by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Featured, News
A touch of menace lurks among the lines of our shortlisted poems for October’s Pick of the Month. It may be just outside the door that you cannot seem to get out of in ‘Dressed’ from Lucy Ashe or what is revealed in Niamh Haran’s...
by Kate Birch | Oct 19, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan’s poem ‘The Anatomy of Boys’ spoke to so many, and it is for this reason that this ‘fascinating’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘inspiring’ poem is the IS&T Pick of the month for September 2020....
by Kate Birch | Oct 11, 2020 | Featured, News
Our shortlist for September 2020’s Pick of the Month has a distinctly international feel about it, as we take off from Josephine Lay’s Gloucestershire and head for Ireland – K.S. Moore (via Wales) and DS Maolalai – and beyond to Tunisia’s Ilhem...
by Kate Birch | Sep 18, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
‘Evocative and charming, a modern day folk tale’, a comment on Lucy Atkinson’s ‘Sunspot’, perfectly summing up why this fine poem is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2020. Lucy is a North-East born writer studying a MA in...
by Kate Birch | Sep 8, 2020 | Featured, News
It’s Pick of the Month time and the shortlist for August 2020 has a definite family feel about it. Are you drawn to either John Grey or Sam Hickford as they try to make connections in ‘To a Father I Never Knew’ and ‘Familiar Tissue’, or...
by Kate Birch | Aug 17, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
The importance of family connections prevailed in voters’ minds and the wonderful ‘Eagle’ by Joanna Nissel is our Pick of the Month for July 2020, but it was an extraordinarily tight race with only a few votes in it. Voters commented again and again...
