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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Mark Czanik
I loved the tales Luke told me of starving writers,
and the sacrifices they made following their hearts.
Stephen Chappell
She has a way of tilting your head
as if lining up a thought.
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
Janet Lees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and...
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
Janet Lees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and...
Previously featured
Mark Czanik
I loved the tales Luke told me of starving writers,
and the sacrifices they made following their hearts.
Stephen Chappell
She has a way of tilting your head
as if lining up a thought.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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...
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...
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...