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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Martin Fisher
Inside, in the half-light, the iron rot took hold.
Forgotten service–obsolete.
Salt-coin neglect.
The money flowed inland,
Moored on an hourglass choke.
No one told the sea.
Craig Dobson
Out of morning
a misted light,
glowing fire
in the air.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Katie Beswick
Asemic (adjective): using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Katie Beswick
Asemic (adjective): using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning.
Previously featured
Martin Fisher
Inside, in the half-light, the iron rot took hold.
Forgotten service–obsolete.
Salt-coin neglect.
The money flowed inland,
Moored on an hourglass choke.
No one told the sea.
Craig Dobson
Out of morning
a misted light,
glowing fire
in the air.
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
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...