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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Matthew F. Amati
Hands said to Head
look what you’ve made me do
it’s not me, Head said, talk to
Heart, that guy’s sick
Mariam Saidan
‘Female singing constitutes a ‘forbidden act’ (ḥarām),
punishable under Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code.’
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Word & Image
Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
Filmpoems
Archive Feature: Bhumika Billa
Portraits of Cambridge
Girls here can
dream
dare
do
before they disappear into the
blue plaques of cam-boys-clubs
by the Eagle Pub.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Word & Image
Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
Filmpoems
Archive Feature: Bhumika Billa
Portraits of Cambridge
Girls here can
dream
dare
do
before they disappear into the
blue plaques of cam-boys-clubs
by the Eagle Pub.
Previously featured
Matthew F. Amati
Hands said to Head
look what you’ve made me do
it’s not me, Head said, talk to
Heart, that guy’s sick
Mariam Saidan
‘Female singing constitutes a ‘forbidden act’ (ḥarām),
punishable under Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code.’
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...