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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Syed Anas S
We are the ones
who see big crackers
burst every day—
Dharmavadana
She barely glances at you when you chink
your spare coins in her upturned cap, but still
spreads a spell among the pavement footfalls,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Word & Image
Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
Filmpoems
Sarah James/Leavesley
There is a secret spot
in every town and city –
step in the right place
at the right time and pace
and the world disappears…
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Word & Image

Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
Filmpoems

Sarah James/Leavesley
There is a secret spot
in every town and city –
step in the right place
at the right time and pace
and the world disappears…
Previously featured
Syed Anas S
We are the ones
who see big crackers
burst every day—
Dharmavadana
She barely glances at you when you chink
your spare coins in her upturned cap, but still
spreads a spell among the pavement footfalls,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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...
Listen to Abigail Flint read ‘Self portrait as Blackpool’, the IS&T December 2021 Pick of the Month.
So evocative and vivid Lovers of all things seaside and Blackpool pushed Abigail Flint’s ‘Self portait as Blackpool’ to the fore and she emerged as the winning Pick of the Month poet with her...
Listen to Subitha Baghirathan’s ‘Sari shop, Easton’ our the IS&T November Pick of the Month.
Beautiful, evocative and hits all my senses The words ‘evocative’ and ‘beautiful’ were used over and over again to describe Subitha Baghirathan's ‘Sari shop, Easton’ and it is for this reason...
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...