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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Jim Paterson
A Tuesday morning in November
out on the street taking in the bins.
As a flight of crows flashed past
the street lights went out.
Andy Humphrey
Noises are louder now: the kesh
of tyres on tarmac slicked
with leaves. Rain’s drumming thunder.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image
Beatriu Delaveda
Nothing goes without saying
Filmpoems
Janet Lees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image
Beatriu Delaveda
Nothing goes without saying
Filmpoems
Janet Lees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and...
Previously featured
Jim Paterson
A Tuesday morning in November
out on the street taking in the bins.
As a flight of crows flashed past
the street lights went out.
Andy Humphrey
Noises are louder now: the kesh
of tyres on tarmac slicked
with leaves. Rain’s drumming thunder.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Jenny Pagdin is our September 2022 Pick of the Month Poet. Read and hear her poem here!
Evocative, timely and poignant Jenny Pagdin’s ‘Before the market town with the Pepper Pot building’ resonated with so many of you. You loved that you knew the place but understood, too, the...
‘Maungawhau’ by Camille McCawley is the August 2022 IS&T Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Climber and volcano - the fusion of imagery. Power of grit and determination. You know when a work of art or literature takes you to another place, to the limits? Well Camille...
‘Dasheen’ by Lalah-Simone Springer is the IS&T Pick of the Month for July 2022. Read and hear it here!
Family. Food. Heritage. Continuity. Love A comment that says it all and, after a closely fought contest, was almost certainly the reason that Lalah-Simone Springer pipped her rivals at the post with...
Reviews
Anthony Salandy, In Praise of ‘Erebus’ by Elizabeth Lewis Williams
In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent. Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father’s journeys,...
Zannah Kearns, in praise of ‘The Plumb Line’ by Hélène Demetriades
Hélène Demetriades’ debut collection, The Plumb Line, charts a life in three sections. The act of ordering gives rise to measured reflection. Complicated experiences are held up to the...
Introducing ‘In Praise of’ and some basic guidelines for reviewing
Publisher's note: Leah’s thoughtful words have inspired IS&T to designate many of our reviews as ‘In Praise of’ pieces where, while still demanding thoughtful analysis as described below, we...








