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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Chrissie Gittins
When you’ve used one handle to open the door,
use the other handle to close it.
Morgan Harlow
She hadn’t lost a child but if she had she imagined it would be like that.
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
Debbie Strange
26th December
in
the
Quiet
That comes
Filmpoems
Julian Dobson
17 small acts of ending
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
Debbie Strange
26th December
in
the
Quiet
That comes
Filmpoems
Julian Dobson
17 small acts of ending
Previously featured
Chrissie Gittins
When you’ve used one handle to open the door,
use the other handle to close it.
Morgan Harlow
She hadn’t lost a child but if she had she imagined it would be like that.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
And your Pick of the Month for June 2020 is ‘Tell me’ by Finola Scott
Hope springs eternal... and goes, in part, towards Finola Scott's 'Tell me' emerging as Ink Sweat & Tears' Pick of the Month for June 2020. 'Stunning', 'beautiful' and 'wonderful' were...
Mary Ford Neal is the IS&T Pick of the Month poet for May 2020
One of our voters when asked 'Tell us why this gets your vote' after selecting Mary Ford Neal's poem simply replied 'Jane' and that really sums up this poem of the same name being chosen as May...
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...
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...





