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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Mark O’Connor
At half a tonne in weight
It was like the anchor –
Michael Mintrom
They lie deep in a forest, wounds
unseen, unhealed. Further back,
an escarpment with dark scars.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘A Bad Spell’ by Lynn Valentine is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March. Read it! Listen to it!
‘This poem is pure enchantment. The captivating vocabulary intensely immersive imagery had the hairs on the back of my neck prickled from the outset.’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo, Romit Berger
with Calypso与卡吕普索同在
No horizon will comfort you.
See that faint line I pencilled in,
Around your heart. Stop short.
Filmpoems
Filmpoems From the Archives: ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili, with Illustrations and Animations by Holly Chant.
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili Open the rock. There, by the river where a streak of blood is so thin it...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘A Bad Spell’ by Lynn Valentine is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March. Read it! Listen to it!
‘This poem is pure enchantment. The captivating vocabulary intensely immersive imagery had the hairs on the back of my neck prickled from the outset.’
Word & Image

Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo, Romit Berger
with Calypso与卡吕普索同在
No horizon will comfort you.
See that faint line I pencilled in,
Around your heart. Stop short.
Filmpoems

Filmpoems From the Archives: ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili, with Illustrations and Animations by Holly Chant.
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili Open the rock. There, by the river where a streak of blood is so thin it...
Previously featured
Mark O’Connor
At half a tonne in weight
It was like the anchor –
Michael Mintrom
They lie deep in a forest, wounds
unseen, unhealed. Further back,
an escarpment with dark scars.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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Reviews
Antony Owen reviews ‘I, Ursula’ by Ruth Stacey
Ernest Hemingway once said “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed”. This quote comes to mind when reading I Ursula which comes...
Deborah Harvey reviews ‘Two Girls and a Beehive : Poems about the art and lives of Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline Spencer’ Rosie Jackson and Graham Burchell
I confess to having a personal interest in the art and the life of Stanley Spencer that is entirely fanciful, born of the fact that he and my grandmother, Hilda, both worked in war hospitals...
Clare Crossman reviews ‘The Shadow Factory’ by Deborah Harvey
The title of this collection is taken from a poem with that name in the book. Was it night fall or the sun eloping with a cloud? No one knew for sure but whatever the cause the shadow...