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...
by Kate Birch | Sep 4, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Climber and volcano – the fusion of imagery. Power of grit and determination. You know when a work of art or literature takes you to another place, to the limits? Well Camille McCawley’s ‘Maungawhau’ does just that and it is for this reason that this...
by Kate Birch | Aug 17, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Family. Food. Heritage. Continuity. Love A comment that says it all and, after a closely fought contest, was almost certainly the reason that Lalah-Simone Springer pipped her rivals at the post with her poem ‘Dasheen’ becoming the Pick of the Month for July 2022....
by Kate Birch | Jul 4, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
You as voters could not call it and, on reflection, neither could we, so for the first time since when we began our Picks of the Month in 2013, we have joint winners, a poem and a work of micro fiction both spare, both powerful. But while Sanah Ahsan’s ‘fresher’ is...
by Kate Birch | Jun 13, 2022 | News, Picks of the Month
Creative thinking outside the box …describes perfectly the effect that Topher Allen’s ‘The Gods Are Addicts’ had on voters and it is for this reason, as well as the poet’s voice, his perspective, ‘fiery imagery and subversion of religious tropes’, that it...
