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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Jade Prince
What is here for us but these walls and the
pearls of sweet yearning behind them
Esha Volvoikar
The earth cracks and we are left
with the same shared moon.
She peers through my lattice window
and hides behind your city’s smoke.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo & Romit Berger for World Poetry Day
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves
悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团
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

‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
Word & Image

Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo & Romit Berger for World Poetry Day
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves
悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团
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
Jade Prince
What is here for us but these walls and the
pearls of sweet yearning behind them
Esha Volvoikar
The earth cracks and we are left
with the same shared moon.
She peers through my lattice window
and hides behind your city’s smoke.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘This Oh So Bearable Lightness’ by Zoe Piponides is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2022. Read and hear it here.
excruciatingly beautiful Two words that capture voters’ response to Zoe Piponides' 'This Oh So Bearable Lightness' and illustrate why it is the Pick of the Month for December 2022. Voters found the...
Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Read and hear it here!
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being repeated again and again in comments, it is no surprise that Becky May’s ‘My...
‘The Interior’ by Michał Choiński is October 2022’s Pick of the Month. Read, and hear it, here!
Silent scream over passing and decay. Describes dramatic events in delicate, calm and mundane way. Words that say it all and illustrate why ‘The Interior’ by Michał Choiński is the IS&T Pick of...
Reviews
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...
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s ‘Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency’
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency (Bloodaxe, 2022) by Helen Bowell When I read Chen Chen’s first book, When I Grow Up I Want To Be...
Ankit Raj Ojha In Praise Of ‘Strokes of Solace’ by Sanjeev Sethi
The title of Sanjeev Sethi’s sixth book of poetry, Strokes of Solace, proclaims a promise. And Sethi delivers, singing the universal human comedy from a personal vantage point while...