by Kate Birch | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
Hope springs eternal… and goes, in part, towards Finola Scott’s ‘Tell me’ emerging as Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month for June 2020. ‘Stunning’, ‘beautiful’ and ‘wonderful’ were only a...
by Kate Birch | Jul 10, 2020 | Featured, News
Look through our shortlist for the Ink Sweat & Tears June 2020 Pick of the Month and you would be forgiven for thinking we had come to the end of the world. But all six poems show us out of sorrow can come such beauty. And perhaps some hope – you might be tempted...
by Kate Birch | Jun 16, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
One of our voters when asked ‘Tell us why this gets your vote’ after selecting Mary Ford Neal’s poem simply replied ‘Jane’ and that really sums up this poem of the same name being chosen as May 2020’s Pick of the Month. We all know...
by Kate Birch | Jun 7, 2020 | Featured, News
The uncertainty, confusion and yearning that we are feeling because of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been joined by anger, frustration and devastation experienced in response to the killing of George Floyd at the end of May. And the poems on our May #PickoftheMonth...
by Kate Birch | May 18, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
There are a myriad of reasons as to why voters chose ‘To the Occupier’ by Beth Booth as the IS&T Pick of the Month for April 2020 which is a tribute to the many layers in this fine poem. Some found it haunting, melancholy, rich with emotion, some...
by Kate Birch | May 7, 2020 | Featured, News
When the pandemic movie is your own reality. It is not surprising that most of the poems on our shortlist for April 2020’s Pick of the Month hover on the edge of dystopia. Is it Sam Wilson-Fletcher’s ‘Blue’ that colours your world or what is...
