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...
by Kate Birch | Oct 19, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan’s poem ‘The Anatomy of Boys’ spoke to so many, and it is for this reason that this ‘fascinating’ ‘beautiful’ and ‘inspiring’ poem is the IS&T Pick of the month for September 2020....
by Kate Birch | Sep 18, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
‘Evocative and charming, a modern day folk tale’, a comment on Lucy Atkinson’s ‘Sunspot’, perfectly summing up why this fine poem is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2020. Lucy is a North-East born writer studying a MA in...
by Kate Birch | Aug 17, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
The importance of family connections prevailed in voters’ minds and the wonderful ‘Eagle’ by Joanna Nissel is our Pick of the Month for July 2020, but it was an extraordinarily tight race with only a few votes in it. Voters commented again and again...
by Kate Birch | Jul 21, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
Hope springs eternal… and goes, in part, towards Finola Scott’s ‘Tell me’ emerging as Ink Sweat & Tears’ Pick of the Month for June 2020. ‘Stunning’, ‘beautiful’ and ‘wonderful’ were only a...
by Kate Birch | Jun 16, 2020 | Featured, News, Picks of the Month
One of our voters when asked ‘Tell us why this gets your vote’ after selecting Mary Ford Neal’s poem simply replied ‘Jane’ and that really sums up this poem of the same name being chosen as May 2020’s Pick of the Month. We all know...
