by Kate Birch | May 18, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
READ and HEAR their poem here. ‘Beautiful… and provoking’ Add memories of ‘long lost summers, childhood curiosity and innocence’ to that as well as an excellent metre, rhythms, imagery and wordplay and you get the reasons why “Little boy dream’ by...
by Kate Birch | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Picks of the Month
It was so so close and rather like a race in which first one contender and then the other edges out into the lead. But in the end it was Sally Festing’s ‘Sunday Mornings’ which triumphed, its gentleness, familiarity and economy of words with the sense of time, of ‘a...
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...
