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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
On the Sixth Day of Christmas we bring you Maggie Harris, Keith J. Powell, Geraldine Stoneham
Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders
running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets
up the doorstep,
On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley
today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Chris Gylee
1997 - Dream as Animal J. Smith Animal is going to disappear, completely Standing out on the street Down the...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Chris Gylee
1997 - Dream as Animal J. Smith Animal is going to disappear, completely Standing out on the street Down the...
Previously featured
On the Sixth Day of Christmas we bring you Maggie Harris, Keith J. Powell, Geraldine Stoneham
Christmas bring back the good ole times – Guyana masqueraders
running through the town, dancing with bugle and drum, down the streets
up the doorstep,
On the Fifth Day of Christmas we bring you John Greening, Finola Scott, Philip Dunkerley
today, Christmas Eve,
my granddaughter visiting
her bright eyes – her faith
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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’
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....
Reviews
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...
In Praise of: Claire Booker reviews ‘Sometime, in a Churchyard’ by Louise Warren
Sometime, in a Churchyard by Louise Warren Paekakariki Press £12.50 (16 pages of poetry, 17 illustrations by Charlotte Harker) If you wander a short way from St Pancras International, you’ll find...








