by Kate Birch | Feb 14, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
Written beautifully with a deep message and theme that crosses multiple paradigms A spare elegant poem but one with deeper meanings. And a duck. This unique poem made voters think. They kept going back to it again and again and, so, it is for this reason that...
by Kate Birch | Feb 1, 2023 | News
I REWIND THE SECOND MY MOTHER’S GIRLHOOD BREAKS I am below her when it happens: She let’s go of the banyan’s hanging roots, her body launched into bulbul’s arc on the upswing, so many ixora blooms clouding through her cheeks My mouth wants itself a perpetual hole for...
by Kate Birch | Jan 13, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
excruciatingly beautiful Two words that capture voters’ response to Zoe Piponides’ ‘This Oh So Bearable Lightness’ and illustrate why it is the Pick of the Month for December 2022. Voters found the poem thought-provoking, original and gripping. They...
by Helen Ivory | Jan 2, 2023 | News
The sad news has just reached us of the sudden passing of Charles Christian, IS&T’s founder, last October. Charles created IS&T as a platform for new poetry and short prose, and experimental work in digital media in 2007. Charles ran the...
by Kate Birch | Dec 24, 2022 | News
by Kate Birch | Dec 9, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being repeated again and again in comments, it is no surprise that Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Voters also...
