by Kate Birch | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
Our first shortlisted filmpoem is the first to be voted Pick of the Month and what a worthy winner it is. ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals from Sleep Never Comes To Me’s Holly Chant engaged and impressed so many of you, with voters drawn to the work’s...
by Kate Birch | Mar 1, 2021 | News
Each year, we select our three submissions for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem from those winning and shortlisted poems from our Pick of the Month series that remain eligible. This year our choices are ‘Vanishing Mother’ by Jenny Mitchell, Priya...
by Kate Birch | Feb 15, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
The subject matter is important and is expressed with grace and craft – the pressure of whiteness and what passes for beauty. A comment that encapsulates why Jenny Mitchell’s deeply personal yet universal and multi-layered ‘Vanishing Mother’ is the Ink...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 6, 2021 | Featured, News, Poetry
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Annie Freud, Jane Burn and Anja Konig on Sunday 7th February 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 CoOp...
by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
Beauty and an underlying sadness is what ultimately saw Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ being voted as the Pick of the Month for December 2020 and marks the first time that a haiku sequence has achieved this accolade since IS&T established Pick of the Month in the...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 30, 2020 | News
Postcards from Murree, Pakistan after Nina Mingya Powles 1. We drink milky hot tea from dainty teacups, pastel porcelain. With it, the mist rising in the mountains around us, and petrichor. The sound of children playing, the tips of their shoes pattering...
