by Kate Birch | Apr 12, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
VOTING HAS CLOSED AND OUR PICK FOR MARCH 2021 WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY 19th APRIL at 5PM BST. You might call our choices for March 2021, a shortlist of two halves. Subtle delicate poems that celebrate the minutiae of life in all its wonder as we find in the warmth...
by Kate Birch | Mar 11, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
Our first shortlisted filmpoem is the first to be voted Pick of the Month and what a worthy winner it is. ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals from Sleep Never Comes To Me’s Holly Chant engaged and impressed so many of you, with voters drawn to the work’s...
by Kate Birch | Feb 15, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
The subject matter is important and is expressed with grace and craft – the pressure of whiteness and what passes for beauty. A comment that encapsulates why Jenny Mitchell’s deeply personal yet universal and multi-layered ‘Vanishing Mother’ is the Ink...
by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
Beauty and an underlying sadness is what ultimately saw Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ being voted as the Pick of the Month for December 2020 and marks the first time that a haiku sequence has achieved this accolade since IS&T established Pick of the Month in the...
by Helen Ivory | Dec 16, 2020 | Picks of the Month
‘this poem is of a few words but very deep feelings’ Voters loved its beauty, its simplicity and its truth and this is why, from a superb group of shortlisted poems, Mariam Saidan’s ‘Lies’ is the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month...
by Kate Birch | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
An overwhelming response to our October Pick of the Month vote sees Amy Rafferty’s ‘Here Come the Crows’ as the ultimate winner. This beautiful, moving ‘ethereal and yet beautifully observed’ poem both spoke to the times we are living in...
