by Leah Jun Oh | Feb 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Welcome to the IS&T Poetry Special “Hear Me, Hear My Silence” which runs from the 20th- 25th February. For five days, we will be publishing poems that pay attention to the art of listening. “To pay attention”...
by Helen Ivory | Feb 4, 2022 | Uncategorized
Please join us on zoom for live readings from Martin Figura, Stuart Charlesworth and Leah Jun Oh on Sunday 6th February at 4pm UTC This is part of our monthly award-winning ‘Live from the Butchery’ series, hosted by Helen Ivory and Martin Figura from their home (an...
by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Kate Birch | Nov 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
Angel of Fear He turns up at night, when clocks stop, parading his wings like a white peacock. Shh! I say, It’s late and I cannot sleep. But he is just there spinning the News. He does not drink, puffs menthols sadly and scuffles around like an...
by Kate Birch | Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
At Christmas All Easyjet flights are cancelled – only difficult journeys now. Three in party hats come dragging their presents over a snowy car park. A few attendants shepherd them into a building: the call to desert places. Looking up for a...
