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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Tim Dwyer
On the pitch of the roof
a jackdaw holds a twig
longer than its wingspan—
do corvids feel pride?
Genna Gardini
go back, small cell, atom
slit by light. It takes up
space, an ocean, a planet, a
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025. Read and Hear It Here!
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
‘A cry that defies repression and a spirit that refuses to be silenced.’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Ma Yongbo & Romit Berger
I want to remember the way back.
It seems Orion has the compass’ foot,
Swinging his other leg out into the dark
With the confidence of a man who walks on stars.
Filmpoems
Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
CW: flashing lights
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025. Read and Hear It Here!
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
‘A cry that defies repression and a spirit that refuses to be silenced.’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Ma Yongbo & Romit Berger
I want to remember the way back.
It seems Orion has the compass’ foot,
Swinging his other leg out into the dark
With the confidence of a man who walks on stars.
Filmpoems
Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
CW: flashing lights
Previously featured
Tim Dwyer
On the pitch of the roof
a jackdaw holds a twig
longer than its wingspan—
do corvids feel pride?
Genna Gardini
go back, small cell, atom
slit by light. It takes up
space, an ocean, a planet, a
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
Zannah Kearns, in praise of ‘The Plumb Line’ by Hélène Demetriades
Hélène Demetriades’ debut collection, The Plumb Line, charts a life in three sections. The act of ordering gives rise to measured reflection. Complicated experiences are held up to the...
Introducing ‘In Praise of’ and some basic guidelines for reviewing
Publisher's note: Leah’s thoughtful words have inspired IS&T to designate many of our reviews as ‘In Praise of’ pieces where, while still demanding thoughtful analysis as described below, we...
Peter Clarke reviews ‘Idiolect’ by P.W Bridgman
Peter Clarke Reviews Idiolect by P.W. Bridgman P.W. Bridgman’s second collection, Idiolect, has been sitting on my desk for a while now. This has allowed me to dip into it from...