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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Morgan Harlow
She hadn’t lost a child but if she had she imagined it would be like that.
Antony Owen and Martin Figura on Remembrance Day
Let fathers bind their sons
to altars, so the wind
might winnow the chaff.
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
Debbie Strange
26th December
in
the
Quiet
That comes
Filmpoems
Csilla Toldy for Earth Day
My head is the earth,
my skin the air
dusk is my hair.
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
Debbie Strange
26th December
in
the
Quiet
That comes
Filmpoems
Csilla Toldy for Earth Day
My head is the earth,
my skin the air
dusk is my hair.
Previously featured
Morgan Harlow
She hadn’t lost a child but if she had she imagined it would be like that.
Antony Owen and Martin Figura on Remembrance Day
Let fathers bind their sons
to altars, so the wind
might winnow the chaff.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Sunday Mornings’ by Sally Festing is the March 2021 Pick of the Month.
It was so so close and rather like a race in which first one contender and then the other edges out into the lead. But in the end it was Sally Festing’s ‘Sunday Mornings’ which triumphed, its...
‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals by Holly Chant is the IS&T Pick of the Month for February 2021
Our first shortlisted filmpoem is the first to be voted Pick of the Month and what a worthy winner it is. ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals from Sleep Never Comes To Me’s Holly Chant...
‘Vanishing Mother’ by Jenny Mitchell is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2021
The subject matter is important and is expressed with grace and craft - the pressure of whiteness and what passes for beauty. A comment that encapsulates why Jenny Mitchell’s deeply personal...
Reviews
Jean Atkin reviews ‘GREAT MASTER/small boy’ by Liz Lefroy
Right from the off, you sense the inviting nature of this pamphlet that circles around Beethoven, mothering, and the power of music to shape lives. In GREAT MASTER/small boy,...
Carla Scarano D’Antonio reviews ‘Fan-Peckled’ by Jean Atkin & Katy Alston
Fan-Peckled, by Jean Atkin and illustrated by Katy Alston, is a fascinating journey that has been written in an old idiomatic Shropshire language and was inspired by The...
Too Young Too Loud Too Different, an anthology by the writers of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen
Too Young Too Loud Too Different edited by Maisie Lawrence and Rishi Dastidar ISBN 978-1-4721-5506-1 Few collectives have had a profound impact on the contemporary poetry landscape in...





