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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Jennifer Cole
take your wedding ring
or it might get “disappeared”
Eithne Longstaff
On the road to Belfast today, I failed
to recognise my father. I saw a flamingo
by the Tamnnamore turn off, but paid
little regard as it took off…
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Read and hear April 2024’s Pick of the Month: ‘Limbo’ by Anna Mindel Crawford
‘Deft, dark, brilliantly written’
‘It really captures the idea of ‘the space between’.’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and artworks have been published internationally.
Filmpoems
Filmpoems from the Archives: ‘Golden Hour’ by Celestine Stilwell.
Golden Hour Over great absences speckled with birds wings, a spell is lifted – dusk like a...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Read and hear April 2024’s Pick of the Month: ‘Limbo’ by Anna Mindel Crawford
‘Deft, dark, brilliantly written’
‘It really captures the idea of ‘the space between’.’
Word & Image

Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and artworks have been published internationally.
Filmpoems

Filmpoems from the Archives: ‘Golden Hour’ by Celestine Stilwell.
Golden Hour Over great absences speckled with birds wings, a spell is lifted – dusk like a...
Previously featured
Jennifer Cole
take your wedding ring
or it might get “disappeared”
Eithne Longstaff
On the road to Belfast today, I failed
to recognise my father. I saw a flamingo
by the Tamnnamore turn off, but paid
little regard as it took off…
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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...
Your First Pick of the Month for 2020 is ‘Realisation about a friend’ by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana
When we launched January's Pick of the Month, we noted that the poems were extraordinary and they truly are. But 'Realisation about a friend' by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana tops the list in this...
Reviews
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...
Lynn Woollacott reviews ‘FOREST moor or less’ by Dawn Bauling and Ronnie Goodyer
A joint collection from two widely published poets opens with, ‘Crescent Moon Over Cookworthy Forest’ which introduces their personal love story – hidden for most of their lives – like...