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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Susan Jane Sims on Mothering Sunday
Matter cannot be created and it cannot be destroyed.
I think of this as I pour the almost white ash from
the green plastic container that came in the post
into the vibrant red metal urn I have ready.
Daniel Sluman
just as the night sky shifts
beyond the minds
of the animals outside
the ceilings
we are pressed beneath change
in aspect & colour
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
Tamsyn Challenger
Fret
Soft droplets form on protrusions
Floating legs in front
A saline nest laps around
flesh traps underneath
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
Tamsyn Challenger
Fret
Soft droplets form on protrusions
Floating legs in front
A saline nest laps around
flesh traps underneath
Previously featured
Susan Jane Sims on Mothering Sunday
Matter cannot be created and it cannot be destroyed.
I think of this as I pour the almost white ash from
the green plastic container that came in the post
into the vibrant red metal urn I have ready.
Daniel Sluman
just as the night sky shifts
beyond the minds
of the animals outside
the ceilings
we are pressed beneath change
in aspect & colour
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
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...
Susan Castillo Street reviews ‘Swimming to Albania’ by Sue Hubbard
On reading Sue Hubbard’s collection Swimming to Albania, the concept that comes to mind is saudade. A. F. G. Bell writes in his study In Portugal, published in 1912:‘The famous saudade...