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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Chris Hardy
Memento Vivere We lived here once. The rain we heard fell everywhere. Silence except the wind across the ground. It’s best to keep quiet. Words are like dead seeds, they vanish when they’re said. * New Year’s Eve without stars or...
Siobhan Logan
There’s something wrong with the sky
it’s the colour of a bruise and smells
of burnt toast. Do you hear that noise?
Someone’s shredding the blue
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Patterned with cows’ by Jackson is IS&T’s May 2026 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘The mixture of love, longing, nostalgia and its undercurrent of exasperation perfectly sums up the emotions involved in dealing with the loss and attendant tasks and duties when our parents die.’
Word & Image
From the Archives: C. Albert
Flora the Poet
In Roundling time when
days were young and she
grew younger –
Flora
Filmpoems
Brandon Ra Pestano: From the Archives
the two unseens
existing within an infinite void
large and small inseparable
separations conceptual
all reality is present
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Patterned with cows’ by Jackson is IS&T’s May 2026 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘The mixture of love, longing, nostalgia and its undercurrent of exasperation perfectly sums up the emotions involved in dealing with the loss and attendant tasks and duties when our parents die.’
Word & Image
From the Archives: C. Albert
Flora the Poet
In Roundling time when
days were young and she
grew younger –
Flora
Filmpoems
Brandon Ra Pestano: From the Archives
the two unseens
existing within an infinite void
large and small inseparable
separations conceptual
all reality is present
Previously featured
Chris Hardy
Memento Vivere We lived here once. The rain we heard fell everywhere. Silence except the wind across the ground. It’s best to keep quiet. Words are like dead seeds, they vanish when they’re said. * New Year’s Eve without stars or...
Siobhan Logan
There’s something wrong with the sky
it’s the colour of a bruise and smells
of burnt toast. Do you hear that noise?
Someone’s shredding the blue
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘At the Barbers’ by Stephen Chappell is the IS&T Pick of the Month for February 2026. Read and Hear It Here!
‘succinct, modest, affecting portrait of a good but constrained life’
‘simple but believable and moving, without being sentimental’
‘Unexploded Bombs’ by Samantha Carr is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2026.
‘A very striking and thought provoking piece of work.’
‘I enjoyed how this reflected Plymouth’s landmarks (I’m from Plymouth) but also medical anxiety (which is a common theme in my life). Unsettling.’
‘Love Song for Snow’ By Michelle Diaz is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2025. With Audio!
I love the whimsical way this develops like a slowly falling snowflake
The snow is always real, tangible, down to the pleasure of making a snow angel and the numbness of hands; the sense of personal loss runs like a watermark through it; and the grief we are beginning to feel for a planet we are overheating haunts us with its presence too.
Reviews
Sue Johns Reviews ‘Something in Nothing’ by Zoe Brooks
Zoe Brooks uses all of these devices and more to create a superbly, dark narrative in her new collection Something in Nothing. Brooks is an assured storyteller whose work is steeped in the oral tradition.
Andrea Holland Reviews ‘Salt & Snow’ by Naomi Foyle
‘Affinities (family, love, friends, faith), despite the shears that would sever, is what binds us, as disparate as we are, and this collection succeeds in reminding us that all we have is each other and that language connects us, as these poems do.’
Jeff Phelps reviews ‘Unsung’ by Emma Purshouse
Emma Purshouse’s third full collection of poetry is a tribute to the distinctive places and voices of the Black Country of the West Midlands…These poems are wry, often deadly serious.