by Kate Birch | Nov 1, 2023 | News
Jam Gentle tufts pulled rough at the stem, unwind in my left palm. Hands swing into bell petals, velvet afternoon air. Butter the sunset in snatches, clouds fold, rain dusted glass. A cowbell rings low. Past lives ripen: echo. Kayleigh...
by Kate Birch | Oct 23, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
it’s upbeat, joyous and just carries you along And it is for this reason that this euphoric poem of ‘tumbled thoughts’ emerged as the Pick of the Month for September 2023. Tim’s poetry has appeared in Ink Sweat & Tears, The Spectator,...
by Kate Birch | Oct 5, 2023 | News
Sue Wallace-Shaddad and Sula Rubens first met in 2019 and connected over their shared interest in the concepts of kinship and displacement. During the pandemic that connection grew and the two began to collaborate as Wallace-Shaddad’s interest in ekphrasis...
by Kate Birch | Sep 8, 2023 | News
I first saw Gboyega Odubanjo read as part of open mic at Café Writers in Norwich in 2017 when he was one of a group of students on UEA’s MA poetry course who had come to support Anna Cathenka, that year’s Ink Sweat & Tears Scholar. I don’t remember the...
by Kate Birch | Aug 28, 2023 | Featured, News
In 2011, IS&T publisher Kate Birch established the The Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship (MA) at the University of East Anglia (UEA); Freya Bantiff is its twelfth recipient. Kana is the fourth student to be awarded The Birch Family Scholarship set...
by Kate Birch | Jul 15, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
Searing honesty with heart warming humour giving an insight into living with MS. Ann Grant’s ‘ Confessions to a neurologist’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for June 2023. Those who had MS or had seen its devastations on their family and friends...
