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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Gordan Struić
Outside,
the city slides by,
blurred lines
of glass and rain.
Stephen Keeler
The days were huge and kind
and sometimes after school
we’d buy a bag of broken biscuits
for the long walk home
across the heavy heat of afternoon
on lucky days she wouldn’t take
the pennies offered up in supplication
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Welcome Sofía Masondo, our New Editing Intern
Sofía Masondo is a poet and theatre-maker of Argentine heritage based in London. Her work often explores themes of connection and disconnection between people, place and culture, taking inspiration across different art forms and from an intercultural upbringing.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
a circle
of radiance cradling
the sun…
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Welcome Sofía Masondo, our New Editing Intern
Sofía Masondo is a poet and theatre-maker of Argentine heritage based in London. Her work often explores themes of connection and disconnection between people, place and culture, taking inspiration across different art forms and from an intercultural upbringing.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
a circle
of radiance cradling
the sun…
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Previously featured
Gordan Struić
Outside,
the city slides by,
blurred lines
of glass and rain.
Stephen Keeler
The days were huge and kind
and sometimes after school
we’d buy a bag of broken biscuits
for the long walk home
across the heavy heat of afternoon
on lucky days she wouldn’t take
the pennies offered up in supplication
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Listen to and Read ‘everyone’s version of heaven is different’ by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, the IS&T Pick of the Month for June 2021
It reads like a simultaneous slap in the face, and a hug. I love it Sometimes you just have to laugh and that, together with the poem’s authenticity, relatability and its shape, language and...
’Twas a long summer of thin air by Jayant Kashyap is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2021
READ AND HEAR THE POEM HERE. Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s the near-apocalyptic world we are living in, the raging pandemic, the creep of global warming. Maybe it’s simply the depth, beauty and...
Celestine Stilwell’s ‘Little boy dream’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for April 2021
READ and HEAR their poem here. ‘Beautiful... and provoking’ Add memories of ‘long lost summers, childhood curiosity and innocence’ to that as well as an excellent metre, rhythms, imagery and...
Reviews
Pat Edwards reviews ‘Be Feared’ by Jane Burn
Living in such a digital age, it is increasingly rare to not at least know something about a writer even before we read their work. I wanted to try to approach this collection by Jane Burn as...
Ra Sh reviews Sanjeev Sethi’s Wee Book ‘Bleb’
In just 31 wee poems of 10 lines each, Sanjeev Sethi, an Indian poet, creates a monumental work of grace from raw feelings. The themes are all too familiar, but the little chambers they...
Claire Booker reviews ‘These Mothers of Gods’ by Rachel Bower
Spoiler alert! This is a seriously good book, but it pulls no punches about the nuts and bolts of motherhood. No quaint, cooing here. Instead, there’s blood and milk; love and its...