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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Amirah Al Wassif
Beneath my armpit lives a Sinbad the size of a thumb.
His imagination feeds through an umbilical cord tied to my womb.
Now and then, people hear him speaking through a giant microphone—
Singing,
Cracking jokes,
Mark Smith
In the portacabin that morning, men smoked
and looked at last week’s paper again.
There was no water to fill the urn.
The first job – to get connected
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi
Fog
a fog descends
a sulphur smell
swallows the house across the street
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
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi
Fog
a fog descends
a sulphur smell
swallows the house across the street
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
Amirah Al Wassif
Beneath my armpit lives a Sinbad the size of a thumb.
His imagination feeds through an umbilical cord tied to my womb.
Now and then, people hear him speaking through a giant microphone—
Singing,
Cracking jokes,
Mark Smith
In the portacabin that morning, men smoked
and looked at last week’s paper again.
There was no water to fill the urn.
The first job – to get connected
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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...
Congratulations to the Joint Winners of the IS&T June 2022 Pick of the Month: Sanah Ahsan & Meg Pokrass. Read & hear their works here!
You as voters could not call it and, on reflection, neither could we, so for the first time since when we began our Picks of the Month in 2013, we have joint winners, a poem and a work of micro...
‘The Gods Are Addicts’ by Topher Allen is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2022. Read & hear it here!
Creative thinking outside the box ...describes perfectly the effect that Topher Allen’s ‘The Gods Are Addicts’ had on voters and it is for this reason, as well as the poet’s voice, his perspective,...
Reviews
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...
Peter Clarke reviews ‘Idiolect’ by P.W Bridgman
Peter Clarke Reviews Idiolect by P.W. Bridgman P.W. Bridgman’s second collection, Idiolect, has been sitting on my desk for a while now. This has allowed me to dip into it from...
Chris Hardy, in praise of ‘A Triptych of Birds and A Few Loose Feathers’ by Pratibha Castle
At the start of this powerful first collection we encounter careful, affectionate observations of animals, flowers and birds: cuckoo, red kite, heron, wren, sparrow, ‘incense of wild...