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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Rebecca Wheatley
He thought his heart was broken yet the day began again.
Katie Beswick
We were on my pink love seat
skin touching skin
I was drunk but longing
circled me, like stars
from a cartoon head wound
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Read, and Hear, ‘sclerenchyma’ by John Bartlett – the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2025!
‘Evocative, descriptive, challenging and uplifting’
‘The eloquence of phrase and sentiment and timing is brilliant.’
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
Read, and Hear, ‘sclerenchyma’ by John Bartlett – the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2025!
‘Evocative, descriptive, challenging and uplifting’
‘The eloquence of phrase and sentiment and timing is brilliant.’
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
Rebecca Wheatley
He thought his heart was broken yet the day began again.
Katie Beswick
We were on my pink love seat
skin touching skin
I was drunk but longing
circled me, like stars
from a cartoon head wound
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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...
‘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...
Reviews
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...
Rachael Clyne, In Praise of ‘Notes From A Shipwreck’ by Jessica Mookherjee
Jessica Mookherjee’s third collection, Notes From A Shipwreck is an epic voyage filled with maritime references. It weaves the poet’s Bengali Hindu heritage with classic European tales and alludes...