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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Robin Vaughan-Williams
I’ve got all this money lying around.
Have you got anything you can do with it?
Rizwan Akhtar
What fell between an abrupt shower
and a sky’s attitude was your memory.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Meet IS&T’s Newest Intern: IB
Abu Ibrahim (IB), a Nigerian poet and spoken word artist residing in the United Kingdom, has gained recognition for his work across various literary platforms.
Word & Image
Beatriu Delaveda
Nothing goes without saying
Filmpoems
Jessamine O’Connor
Nerve Music
Sometimes I’m jittery
like this jittering
nervousness appears
as a tremor from somewhere
distant far away inside
and I’m on edge
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Meet IS&T’s Newest Intern: IB
Abu Ibrahim (IB), a Nigerian poet and spoken word artist residing in the United Kingdom, has gained recognition for his work across various literary platforms.
Word & Image

Beatriu Delaveda
Nothing goes without saying
Filmpoems

Jessamine O’Connor
Nerve Music
Sometimes I’m jittery
like this jittering
nervousness appears
as a tremor from somewhere
distant far away inside
and I’m on edge
Previously featured
Robin Vaughan-Williams
I’ve got all this money lying around.
Have you got anything you can do with it?
Rizwan Akhtar
What fell between an abrupt shower
and a sky’s attitude was your memory.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Read, and Hear, Eve Chancellor’s ‘Two Girls on a Greyhound’, the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2023
It's a fine piece of short, sharp poetry which instantly creates two believable characters and a tense drama in a few lines. EXCELLENT You loved the story behind the poem. You loved its mystery....
‘The Old Fishing Village’ by David Gilbert is the IS&T Pick of the Month for February 2023
the sense of loss and ending Words that capture voters' instinctive response to David’s authentic, elegiac ‘The Old Fishing Village’ and saw this poem voted as Pick of the Month for February 2023....
Shakiah K Johnson’s ‘What Comes After Death?’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2023. Read and hear it here!
Written beautifully with a deep message and theme that crosses multiple paradigms A spare elegant poem but one with deeper meanings. And a duck. This unique poem made voters think. They kept going...
Reviews
Tim Kiely reviews ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ by Arji Manuelpillai
Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai Penned in the Margins (106 pages of poetry) The first time I heard a poem by Arji Manuelpillai, he was reading from this collection on BBC...
In Praise of: Jane Burn reviews ‘Love Leans over the Table’ by Rosie Jackson
Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson Two Rivers Press, £10.99 (100 pages of poetry) This a long, fascinatingly dense collection that bears much careful study. I never set out to read any book...
In Praise of: JP Seabright reviews ‘Violet Existence’ by Katy Wareham Morris
Violet Existence by Katy Wareham Morris Broken Sleep Books, £6.50 (40 pages) Sparking with electricity and a dextrous fluidity, this pamphlet takes the reader from the hospital ward to...