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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Jeff Phelps reviews ‘Unsung’ by Emma Purshouse
Emma Purshouse’s third full collection of poetry is a tribute to the distinctive places and voices of the Black Country of the West Midlands…These poems are wry, often deadly serious.
Nigel King
My compass – its needle set with a sliver of blue stone – spins and spins. Breath mists my snow
goggles. I wipe them endlessly. Even in these thick seal-skin mitts my hands are frozen. I have been
no place as still as this.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Poetry from UEA MA Scholars 2024/2025: Grace Phillips and On Zi Rui
You bought peppermint and bubbles,
monologued in the corner.
You barely looked at me twice.
– Grace Phillips
I looked at the neon lights
Gazing, I asked myself :
“What am I sourcing for now that I am without you ?”
– On Zi Rui
Word & Image
Nina Nazir
You were a love-thief.
I adored you
for the spell you cast
and yet…
Filmpoems
Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Poetry from UEA MA Scholars 2024/2025: Grace Phillips and On Zi Rui
You bought peppermint and bubbles,
monologued in the corner.
You barely looked at me twice.
– Grace Phillips
I looked at the neon lights
Gazing, I asked myself :
“What am I sourcing for now that I am without you ?”
– On Zi Rui
Word & Image
Nina Nazir
You were a love-thief.
I adored you
for the spell you cast
and yet…
Filmpoems
Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Previously featured
Jeff Phelps reviews ‘Unsung’ by Emma Purshouse
Emma Purshouse’s third full collection of poetry is a tribute to the distinctive places and voices of the Black Country of the West Midlands…These poems are wry, often deadly serious.
Nigel King
My compass – its needle set with a sliver of blue stone – spins and spins. Breath mists my snow
goggles. I wipe them endlessly. Even in these thick seal-skin mitts my hands are frozen. I have been
no place as still as this.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Confessions to a neurologist’ by Ann Grant is the IS&T June 2023 Pick of the Month. Read, and Hear Ann Read It, Here!
‘Beautifully confessional, devastatingly true.’
‘Sometimes, a Man Could Cry’ by Matthew M.C. Smith is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2023. Read and Hear it Here.
‘Striking, moving imagist poem!’
‘When an albatross crash-lands in a dream’ by Deborah Harvey is the IS&T April 2023 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘It was the poem that kept coming back’
Reviews
Clare Morris reviews ‘Coalescence’ by Tim King
Coalescence by Tim King Lulu Press (230 pages of poetry) Tim King can always be relied on to provide the perfect poetry pick-me-up that every writer longs for. ‘Coalescence’ is a glorious...
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...