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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Fran Hawthorne
It was only my second speech and debate tournament in high school, and I was coming home with a gold medal in Dramatic Interpretation and a silver in Extemp.
Jacob Mckibbin
my brother saw his attacker
at a petrol station
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ by Robin Houghton is the June 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here.
‘Beautiful interweaving of nature and human concerns’
Word & Image
M.P. Pratheesh
Reading Materials We shadows of distant meteors too M.P. Pratheesh is an Indian poet-artist. His works can be...
Filmpoems
Marc Woodward
‘When Joe Went Out Late’, a Christmas Filmpoem
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ by Robin Houghton is the June 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here.
‘Beautiful interweaving of nature and human concerns’
Word & Image
M.P. Pratheesh
Reading Materials We shadows of distant meteors too M.P. Pratheesh is an Indian poet-artist. His works can be...
Filmpoems
Marc Woodward
‘When Joe Went Out Late’, a Christmas Filmpoem
Previously featured
Fran Hawthorne
It was only my second speech and debate tournament in high school, and I was coming home with a gold medal in Dramatic Interpretation and a silver in Extemp.
Jacob Mckibbin
my brother saw his attacker
at a petrol station
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Congratulations to Beth Booth whose poem ‘To the Occupier’ is the Pick of the Month for April 2020
There are a myriad of reasons as to why voters chose 'To the Occupier' by Beth Booth as the IS&T Pick of the Month for April 2020 which is a tribute to the many layers in this fine poem. Some...
The Votes are in and the Pick of the Month for March 2020 is ‘A Factory of Feelings’ by Sanjeev Sethi
It is perhaps no surprise during this seismic period that our March 2020 Pick of the Month should focus on that technology which holds us all together even when it drives us apart. Voters found...
Hannah Hodgson’s poem ‘Death Rattle’ is the Pick of the Month for February 2020
We live in uncertain times, and that voters chose 'Death Rattle' by Hannah Hodgson as the Ink Sweat & Tears Pick of the Month for February 2020 not only indicates their overwhelming admiration...
Reviews
David Clarke reviews ‘A Commonplace’ by Jonathan Davidson
Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace is an act of poetic generosity. Fully in the spirit of his entertaining and engaging essay-memoir On Poetry...
Rebecca Lowe reviews ‘The Ear of Eternity’ by Xavier Panades I Blas
Xavier Panades i Blas, a Catalan-born poet now living in Wales, is passionate about two things: The first is his Catalan language and culture. The second is his writing, which comes...
Emma Storr reviews ‘The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster’ by Carole Bromley
Carole Bromley’s fourth collection contains poignant and reflective poems that demonstrate her skills of close observation, humour and pathos. She is also admirable in...





