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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Layla Sabourian
We were happy people once. Not naïve, just animated, social, alive. We gathered constantly. We danced at weddings, at birthdays, at no occasion at all.
Kevin Denwood
Name called.
Not mine.
Wasn’t I
here first?
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image
Beatriu Delaveda
Nothing goes without saying
Filmpoems
Martin Rieser
We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image
Beatriu Delaveda
Nothing goes without saying
Filmpoems
Martin Rieser
We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.
Previously featured
Layla Sabourian
We were happy people once. Not naïve, just animated, social, alive. We gathered constantly. We danced at weddings, at birthdays, at no occasion at all.
Kevin Denwood
Name called.
Not mine.
Wasn’t I
here first?
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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...
Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ Haiku Series is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2020
Beauty and an underlying sadness is what ultimately saw Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ being voted as the Pick of the Month for December 2020 and marks the first time that a haiku sequence has achieved...
Reviews
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...
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...