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...
by Kate Birch | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
When we launched January’s Pick of the Month, we noted that the poems were extraordinary and they truly are. But ‘Realisation about a friend’ by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana tops the list in this case. Voters admired its simplicity and its beauty and...
by Kate Birch | Feb 9, 2020 | Featured, News
The ordinary becomes extraordinary in the shortlisted works for our first Pick of the Month for 2020 and the decade. Seemingly familiar warning signs in Rob Stuart’s Word & Image are, in fact, ‘Poetry Hazards’. Melanie Branton’s...
