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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Max Wallis
god grant us the serenity / to accept the things we cannot change / the courage to change the / things we can / and the wisdom to know el differencio /
Play, National Poetry Day: Heather Hughes, Laura Webb, Jude Brigley
We searched so long for that clover.
Every time the sun shone we scoured
the fields and woods, running past
the children playing with skipping ropes
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Abertawe’ by Andy Breckenridge is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2024. Read and hear it here.
‘flowing beautiful lines of emotion’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
//There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly.
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
Seaglass, Flint and Jasper
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Abertawe’ by Andy Breckenridge is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2024. Read and hear it here.
‘flowing beautiful lines of emotion’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
//There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly.
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
Seaglass, Flint and Jasper
Previously featured
Max Wallis
god grant us the serenity / to accept the things we cannot change / the courage to change the / things we can / and the wisdom to know el differencio /
Play, National Poetry Day: Heather Hughes, Laura Webb, Jude Brigley
We searched so long for that clover.
Every time the sun shone we scoured
the fields and woods, running past
the children playing with skipping ropes
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Congratulations to Mariam Saidan who is our IS&T Pick of the Month poet for November 2020
'this poem is of a few words but very deep feelings' Voters loved its beauty, its simplicity and its truth and this is why, from a superb group of shortlisted poems, Mariam Saidan's 'Lies' is the...
Your October 2020 Pick of the Month is ‘Here Come the Crows’ by Amy Rafferty
An overwhelming response to our October Pick of the Month vote sees Amy Rafferty's 'Here Come the Crows' as the ultimate winner. This beautiful, moving 'ethereal and yet beautifully observed' poem...
And our Pick of the Month for September 2020 is ‘The Anatomy of Boys’ by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan's poem 'The Anatomy of Boys' spoke to so many, and it is for this reason that this 'fascinating' 'beautiful' and 'inspiring' poem is the IS&T Pick of the month for...
Reviews
Tom Wilson reviews This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman
This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman Dempsey & Windle ISBN: 9781913329457 This collection of 24 poems is a celebration of multiple identity. It’s also funny, moving, mocking, sad...
Rachael Smart Reviews The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen
The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen Printed Authority Edition, 2021 Limited Edition (Sold Out) The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen is an exquisitely...
Tim Kiely Reviews Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi
Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi Flipped Eye Publishing, 2021 ISBN: 9781905233618 £4.00 From the first poem of Samatar Elmi’s debut pamphlet, we know that this Colossus is also imagined as an...




