by Kate Birch | Jul 21, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
Beautiful interweaving of nature and human concerns The word ‘beautiful’ was repeated again and again in voters’ comments as this subtle, understated poem revealed the tragic death of a sister that lay at the heart of it, and it is for this reason and more that Robin...
by Kate Birch | Jul 1, 2024 | News
Offals The flavours of home are off-putting. Offals, glands, chitterlings; this last one, we call chinchulínes, my favourite. I always liked the name, the word’s aftertaste greasy like a swallow flying to better places leaving the ovenbird behind to build its...
by Kate Birch | Jun 1, 2024 | News
Pride / Prejudice a truth universally acknowledged Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and...
by Kate Birch | May 15, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
‘Deft, dark, brilliantly written’ This poem appealed on so many layers: A remembered experience of children’s parties, with either fondness or dismay. Childhood memories and an unsettling sense of being in limbo. A limbo that we all are unnerved by, a...
by Kate Birch | Apr 20, 2024 | News, Picks of the Month
This poem is pure enchantment. The captivating vocabulary intensely immersive imagery had the hairs on the back of my neck prickled from the outset. Voters loved the imagery, the descriptive power of this poem. They found it evocative, eerie, heart-wrenching. And for...
by Kate Birch | Apr 19, 2024 | News
Keen to develop your writing and stagecraft? Ink Sweat & Tears asks three top poets to share some tips by Tim Relf Finding time to write is a big hurdle for most people, says Holly Winter-Hughes. ‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best...
