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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Miguel Cullen
The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended crest and mouth.
T N Kennedy
inside the apiary it is always spring
human beings and honey bees cohabiting
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
winterberry
the first holiday
alone
Filmpoems
Sarah Raybould
dad would take us sledging on the hills behind our house,
we’d ride the sleeping-slopes of
/ round-back / giants,
flushed with fever-thrill and
when he capsized
we / lurched /
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
winterberry
the first holiday
alone
Filmpoems
Sarah Raybould
dad would take us sledging on the hills behind our house,
we’d ride the sleeping-slopes of
/ round-back / giants,
flushed with fever-thrill and
when he capsized
we / lurched /
Previously featured
Miguel Cullen
The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended crest and mouth.
T N Kennedy
inside the apiary it is always spring
human beings and honey bees cohabiting
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Read, and Hear, ‘sclerenchyma’ by John Bartlett – the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2025!
‘Evocative, descriptive, challenging and uplifting’
‘The eloquence of phrase and sentiment and timing is brilliant.’
‘Reimagination of Gravity’ by Paul Chuks is July’s Pick of the Month! Read and Hear it Here.
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it.
Wonderful way of observation
Rachael Clyne’s ‘Homeland’ is the June 2025 Pick of the Month! Read and hear it here.
‘Diaspora dialogue; the place and the displaced’
‘Thought provoking. A rich, reflective poem that carries itself well.’
‘The way the land responds to human tragedy’
Reviews
In Praise of … Mat Riches on Robin Houghton
Given how much she does for the poetry community—the Planet Podcast series with Peter Kenny, her monthly submissions newsletter, her blog posts, her books on getting published, launching a publisher with other folks, etc., it’s heartwarming to see the attention being placed back on Robin’s writing.
In Praise of… : Arup K. Chatterjee reviews ‘A Different Story’ by Amlanjyoti Goswami
A Different Story conjures a subject that resists acts of dumping trauma, instead alchemizing them into dry humor and decorous irreverence, sans complacency or arrogance
In Praise Of…: Fathima Zahra reviews ‘this too is a glistening’ by Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed and Nina Mingya Powles
Moving between immersive and sensory details from their walks, swims and time together, the writing switches between present and past recollections.