by Kate Birch | Mar 11, 2023 | News, Picks of the Month
the sense of loss and ending Words that capture voters’ instinctive response to David’s authentic, elegiac ‘The Old Fishing Village’ and saw this poem voted as Pick of the Month for February 2023. David has one book (The Rare Bird Recovery Protocol, Cinnamon)...
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 | 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 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...
by Kate Birch | Nov 3, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Silent scream over passing and decay. Describes dramatic events in delicate, calm and mundane way. Words that say it all and illustrate why ‘The Interior’ by Michał Choiński is the IS&T Pick of the Month for October 2022. Voters admired its relevancy, supported...
by Kate Birch | Oct 14, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Evocative, timely and poignant Jenny Pagdin’s ‘Before the market town with the Pepper Pot building’ resonated with so many of you. You loved that you knew the place but understood, too, the different feelings that it could provoke, felt the sense of not quite...
