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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
On the First Day of Christmas we bring you Sarah Mnatzaganian, Rebecca Gethin, Jenni Thorne
Towards the Solstice
owls fly closer in December twilight,
call to each other across the garden.
Martin Fisher
Inside, in the half-light, the iron rot took hold.
Forgotten service–obsolete.
Salt-coin neglect.
The money flowed inland,
Moored on an hourglass choke.
No one told the sea.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Cross Hot Burns
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
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Cross Hot Burns
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
On the First Day of Christmas we bring you Sarah Mnatzaganian, Rebecca Gethin, Jenni Thorne
Towards the Solstice
owls fly closer in December twilight,
call to each other across the garden.
Martin Fisher
Inside, in the half-light, the iron rot took hold.
Forgotten service–obsolete.
Salt-coin neglect.
The money flowed inland,
Moored on an hourglass choke.
No one told the sea.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Imagining myself as a bitter, old woman’ by Gurpreet Bharya is the IS&T April 2022 Pick of the Month. Read & hear it here!
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: 'This poem takes you by surprise...' The title points you in one direction and then you follow it through to a...
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...
Reviews
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...
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...