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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Usha Kishore
At dawn and dusk, my father
becomes a chant, that flies above
the courtyard of the old house
Jane Frank
The leaves are a colour you’ve never seen
but that I will learn to expect
and there’s a fracas-induced full moon
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo & Romit Berger for World Poetry Day
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves
悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团
Filmpoems
Martin Rieser
We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo & Romit Berger for World Poetry Day
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves
悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团
Filmpoems
Martin Rieser
We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.
Previously featured
Usha Kishore
At dawn and dusk, my father
becomes a chant, that flies above
the courtyard of the old house
Jane Frank
The leaves are a colour you’ve never seen
but that I will learn to expect
and there’s a fracas-induced full moon
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Listen to Julie Stevens’ Poem ‘Insomnia’ our IS&T October 2021 Pick of the Month
Speaks directly and painfully, sharp images ‘Insomnia’ by Julie Stevens spoke to many voters, whether it was an anguish experienced only occasionally or bound up and endemic to a chronic...
Listen to Ofem Ubi’s ‘and so it goes…’ the September 2021 Pick of the Month
He has such a powerful way with words. An innate talent. Voters responded to the truth of Ofem Ubi’s poem, its simplicity, relatability and finesse; it for these reasons and more that 'and so it...
Listen to ‘Peace Pipe’ by Konstandinos Mahoney, the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2021!
Deceptively simple, emotionally intense In a shortlist of poems revolving around conflict, it was Konstandinos Mahoney’s ‘Peace Pipe’ that voters reached for, with many commenting on its powerful...
Reviews
Carole Bromley reviews ‘My Name is Mercy’ by Martin Figura
I was intrigued when I saw on social media that Martin Figura was regularly staying in a haunted inn in Salisbury during lockdown. I used to live there, taught at the boys’ grammar school and...
Claire Booker reviews ‘History of Forgetfulness’ by Shahé Mankerian
Beirut, 1975. I remember the news bulletins, the disbelief that anyone, let alone children, could survive the horrors of a bloody civil war. But they can, and Shahé Mankerian’s...
Andrew McDonnell reviews ‘Fresh Out of The Sky’ by George Szirtes
Mary Borden, in her forward to her WW1 modernist memoir of prose poems, The Forbidden Zone, writes how her pieces are fragments of 'a great confusion'. The poems that make up a great part of...