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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Play, for National Poetry Day: MD Bier, Catherine Sweeney, Rachel Burns
Those hot hot summer days. Hair curling against sticky clammy foreheads.
Pony tails, pig tails or braids. Keep it off our neck and backs.
Play, for National Poetry Day: Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Ruth Aylett , Brian Comber
They can imagine a forest,
we don’t need this minimalist tree,
we’ll represent a place to live without walls, without foundations or a hearth.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Welcome Fathima Zahra, IS&T’s latest Editing Intern
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet and performer based in London. She is a Barbican Young Poet and Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her debut pamphlet sargam/ swargam was selected as PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2021.
Word & Image
Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
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 Fathima Zahra, IS&T’s latest Editing Intern
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet and performer based in London. She is a Barbican Young Poet and Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her debut pamphlet sargam/ swargam was selected as PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2021.
Word & Image
Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
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
Play, for National Poetry Day: MD Bier, Catherine Sweeney, Rachel Burns
Those hot hot summer days. Hair curling against sticky clammy foreheads.
Pony tails, pig tails or braids. Keep it off our neck and backs.
Play, for National Poetry Day: Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Ruth Aylett , Brian Comber
They can imagine a forest,
we don’t need this minimalist tree,
we’ll represent a place to live without walls, without foundations or a hearth.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Hear Kayleigh Jayshree read ‘ON BEING GHOSTED BY A FAMOUS MUSICIAN’: your ‘IS&T July 2021 Pick of the Month!
… a very passionate and visceral story - takes your heart in its hand and gently squeezes the tension into it physically ‘ON BEING GHOSTED BY A FAMOUS MUSICIAN’ had impact and this is...
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...
Reviews
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...
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...





