Dennis Tomlinson

Passage to London   Spring has come to swing his hammer, to drive crocuses forth from the leaf-scattered soil. Look at the workmen raising their scaffolding, opening roofs where the old tiles lay. While daisies peer shyly towards a pale sun I up and depart on the...
Christmas & New Year’s Message from IS&T

Christmas & New Year’s Message from IS&T

Once again at the end of another year, we cannot acknowledge Christmas without looking to that part of the world where it all began. All we can do is hope that the genocide in and decimations of Gaza will stop, the illegal incursions into the West Bank end, the...
Ilias Tsagas

Ilias Tsagas

  Free A yellow patch against the cement of the yard his beautiful song the surprise visit of an escaped bird.     Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English as a second language. His poems have appeared in journals like: Apogee, AMBIT, Under the...

Amlanjyoti Goswami

      To those who don’t want poetry in GCSE It would be nice If you didn’t spend all that time Writing poetry. He could be blunt When he wanted to. All that time. What about reading it? Yes, reading too. Why read something you can’t use? I sipped my...

Niamh Haran

      Refurbishment mum says there’s that generation that covered everything up floorboards fireplaces and now it’s like anti-clockwork searching for original décor I am moulding wet clay into figurines in an unofficial online art class in an unofficial...