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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Jena Woodhouse
Around midnight, the hour when pain
reasserts its dominance, a voice
behind the curtain screening
my bed from the next patient’s:
an intonation penetrating abstract thoughts
Kate Bailey
They’ve mended the park fence again,
patched it over with the usual ugly metalwork,
like a riot barricade.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Meet IS&T’s Newest Intern: IB
Abu Ibrahim (IB), a Nigerian poet and spoken word artist residing in the United Kingdom, has gained recognition for his work across various literary platforms.
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
Meet IS&T’s Newest Intern: IB
Abu Ibrahim (IB), a Nigerian poet and spoken word artist residing in the United Kingdom, has gained recognition for his work across various literary platforms.
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
Jena Woodhouse
Around midnight, the hour when pain
reasserts its dominance, a voice
behind the curtain screening
my bed from the next patient’s:
an intonation penetrating abstract thoughts
Kate Bailey
They’ve mended the park fence again,
patched it over with the usual ugly metalwork,
like a riot barricade.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Congratulations to Hiram Larew whose poem ‘Hardly’ is the Pick of the Month for March 2022. Read and Hear It Here
It is spare, subtle and profound. These words that really do sum up Hiram Larew’s superb poem ‘Hardly’ and are an illustration of why it has been voted as the Pick of the Month for March 2022....
Listen to Fizza Abbas read ‘How Inferiority Complex Talks to A Writer Whose Mother Tongue is Urdu’, February 2022’s Pick of the Month
It almost feels like my life has been sort of summed up in verse. We are always in awe of those who speak more than one language fluently, even more so when a poet writes in...
Listen to Manon Ceridwen James read the Pick of the Month poem for January 2022
… it’s so real. The movement of the poem without breath evokes exactly the situation it describes The wonderfully titled 'A Parishioner Complains at a Parish Church Council When We...
Reviews
Stephen Payne reviews ‘Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter’ by Sarah Mnatzaganian
"If music be the food of love" is one of Uncle Hagop’s favourite lines, so we are told in ‘Uncle Hagop in Stratford-upon-Avon’. But for his niece, Sarah, the food of love is food...
Helen Moore reviews ‘an/other pastoral’ by Tjawangwa Dema with illustrations by Tebogo Cranwell
“For the leadwood trees of Mmadikola. Ya matswere a Mmadikola” is the dedication that award-winning New Generation African poet TJ Dema offers at the start of this excellent chapbook...
Janice Dempsey reviews ‘Performance Rites’ by Barry Smith
Barry Smith’s debut poetry collection is a cornucopia of his rich life and artistic experiences. These poems draw on his life as an educator, theatre director, music lover; Smith...