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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Marissa Glover
What Might Have Been There is a small white house high on a green hill just south of Scotland, an office bright with books and a window overlooking Magdalene, and somewhere on a dirt road between endless pastures of strong red fescue, is a man on a...
Cherry Doyle
/ on the days / blood rushes at the corner of a nail / you cannot keep your jumper off the door handle / table tackles leg / expect the bruise in two days’ time / pansies nodding in speckles of rain /
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image
Fianna Russell Dodwell for Mental Health Awareness Week
I’ll tell you a bedtime story . . .
Filmpoems
Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image

Fianna Russell Dodwell for Mental Health Awareness Week
I’ll tell you a bedtime story . . .
Filmpoems

Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Previously featured
Marissa Glover
What Might Have Been There is a small white house high on a green hill just south of Scotland, an office bright with books and a window overlooking Magdalene, and somewhere on a dirt road between endless pastures of strong red fescue, is a man on a...
Cherry Doyle
/ on the days / blood rushes at the corner of a nail / you cannot keep your jumper off the door handle / table tackles leg / expect the bruise in two days’ time / pansies nodding in speckles of rain /
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
‘A Town of Shadows’ by Joe Williams is the final Pick of the Month for 2024. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line’
‘Clear structure, directness, chilling emotion’
‘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.
Reviews
In Praise Of…Dennis Tomlinson reviews ‘Window’ by Yuko Minamikawa Adams
This poet has a talent for transforming the familiar world through the power of her imagination and, moreover, doing so in plain, down-to-earth language. Things are personified and persons are thingified, as in the poem ‘Ironing’, which reaches far beyond the ordinary domestic chore of its title.
In Praise Of…: Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary reviews ‘High Jump as Icarus Story’ by Gustav Parker Hibbett
As readers, we understand that the poems build towards liberation. Gustav Parker Hibbitt sees the high jump as a place to embrace their femininity, like “Ice Princess”, where they are “floral”, a “queen wear[ing] feathers”.
In Praise Of…: Chaucer Cameron reviews ‘Love the Albatross’ by Deborah Harvey
Estrangement is a complex, brutal place, both to find yourself in and to inhabit. It’s also a dangerous place to write from, being fraught with exposure, stigma, judgment and misunderstanding; and...