by Kate Birch | Dec 8, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes. Two powerful sentences that show why Mariam Saidan’s ‘A Cry’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025. This is a...
by Kate Birch | Nov 16, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process Many talk of poetry in sport but few know that it is very often the subject of poetry and that poetry is perfectly placed to portray the tension, the exhilaration, the atmosphere,...
by Kate Birch | Oct 19, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Quietly devasting poem Fresh, alive, original, funny Voters had a range of reactions to our winning poem this month. They saw it as striking, powerful, beautiful, eloquent and ‘quietly devastating’. It was honest and to the point. It was unsettling and yet...
by Kate Birch | Sep 15, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Evocative, descriptive, challenging and uplifting The eloquence of phrase and sentiment and timing is brilliant. It is for these reasons and many more that voters chose ‘sclerenchyma’ by John Bartlett as the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2025. They...
by Kate Birch | Aug 16, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it. This was a poem that mixed physics with philosophy, loss with whimsy and caught voters unawares with its perspective and observation. It is for these reasons and many more that Paul Chuks’ beautiful,...
by Kate Birch | Jul 29, 2025 | News, Picks of the Month
Because it is a beautiful evocation of the land/Palestine’s grief ‘Homeland’ by Rachael Clyne powerfully pinpoints the current horrors of the world, particularly the genocide in Gaza, but also speaks to the general sorrow of displacement and loss of...
