by Kate Birch | Apr 14, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
It is perhaps no surprise during this seismic period that our March 2020 Pick of the Month should focus on that technology which holds us all together even when it drives us apart. Voters found Sanjeev Sethi’s ‘A Factory of Feelings’ moving, relevant...
by Kate Birch | Apr 4, 2020 | Featured, News
Despite the uncertainty of everything, our Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month still goes on and we have a fine shortlist of poets that it will be difficult to chose from. Will it be Kitty Coles’ ‘The moon is a cannibal:’ that eats you...
by Kate Birch | Mar 18, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
We live in uncertain times, and that voters chose ‘Death Rattle’ by Hannah Hodgson as the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month for February 2020 not only indicates their overwhelming admiration of the poem and the poet but is also an acknowledgement of...
by Kate Birch | Mar 9, 2020 | Featured, News
The only thing that unites our shortlist for February 2020’s shortlist for Pick of the Month is how fine these poems are. There are sweet memories (Attracta Fahy’s Dinner in the Fields) and less warm experiences – ‘Some things never change’...
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2020 | Featured, News
Do please read these fine poems below, go to https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/?cat=118 or click on ‘2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry Entries’ in the categories list to your right. Good luck to all!
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2020 | Featured, News, Poetry
In 2011, IS&T publisher Kate Birch established the The Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship (MA) at the University of East Anglia (UEA); Konstantin Nicholas Rega is its ninth recipient. Memoona Zahid is the second student to be awarded The Birch Family...