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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Roger Robinson
We walk from cane fields,
cotton in our nightshirts, sweet
Amirah Al Wassif
My double sits before me now. I stare deep into her, as I do every day after midnight. When I raise my hands, she raises hers.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
A Warm Welcome to Sairah Ahsan, IS&T’s Newest Editing Intern!
The Heart and the Stomach
Fists of smooth muscle curl in sleep
clutch at hunger.
Sticky with a sick feeling
they anticipate the winter tundra
of empty cupboards…
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
A Warm Welcome to Sairah Ahsan, IS&T’s Newest Editing Intern!
The Heart and the Stomach
Fists of smooth muscle curl in sleep
clutch at hunger.
Sticky with a sick feeling
they anticipate the winter tundra
of empty cupboards…
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Previously featured
Roger Robinson
We walk from cane fields,
cotton in our nightshirts, sweet
Amirah Al Wassif
My double sits before me now. I stare deep into her, as I do every day after midnight. When I raise my hands, she raises hers.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Tim Relf’s ‘…walking’ is the September 2023 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘it’s upbeat, joyous and just carries you along’
Read and hear it here: Rosie Garland’s ‘Poem inspired by an imaginary painting by Leonora Carrington’ IS&T’s Summer 2023 Pick!
‘Such vibrant imagery, and sense of movement’
‘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.’
Reviews
Helen Moore reviews ‘Federal Gods’ by Clare Saponia
Federal Gods by Clare Saponia Palewell Press (112 pages of poetry) Clare Saponia’s reputation for radically engaged poetry, characterised by a boldly provocative and satirical style, was already...
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...