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...
by Kate Birch | Jun 18, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
Fantastic rugged imagery, metal and manacles, capturing essences of both masculinity and heart. It showed vulnerability, It was beautiful, spare, imagist. It was a reflection of men’s suppressed emotions. It was powerful, poignant, moving, beautiful to read...
by Kate Birch | May 21, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
I like its flow, its unexpectednesses, its disguised rhythms, its mysteries, its afterglows….. In the end, it was the language, the imagery and the mystery of the poem that decided the outcome of what was a very close race and saw ‘When an albatross crash-lands...
by Kate Birch | Apr 20, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
It’s a fine piece of short, sharp poetry which instantly creates two believable characters and a tense drama in a few lines. EXCELLENT You loved the story behind the poem. You loved its mystery. You loved the characters of the two sisters and the strength of...
