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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Helen Finney
At my feet the window sprawls a view of kneaded land,
craggy baked by the hand of the gods, dusted green
with short bit grass.
Eugene O’Hare
It hasn’t been this bright all year –
the moon’s white scalp, spot-lit,
a head turned away from a thing
the rest of us fear: unearthly dark
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Chris Gylee
1997 - Dream as Animal J. Smith Animal is going to disappear, completely Standing out on the street Down the...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Chris Gylee
1997 - Dream as Animal J. Smith Animal is going to disappear, completely Standing out on the street Down the...
Previously featured
Helen Finney
At my feet the window sprawls a view of kneaded land,
craggy baked by the hand of the gods, dusted green
with short bit grass.
Eugene O’Hare
It hasn’t been this bright all year –
the moon’s white scalp, spot-lit,
a head turned away from a thing
the rest of us fear: unearthly dark
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...