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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
On the Third Day of Christmas we bring you Oliver Comins, D.A.Prince, Beliz McKenzie
What does a tree make of Christmas glitter,
our mix of homemade stars and glassy birds,
drizzle of tinsel, and the radiators?
On the Second Day of Christmas we bring you Lucy A Kulwieć, Adam Elms, Maurice Devitt
It was when your hair fell like snow I found it again. No longer moon blonde, time had coppered the hair auburn. The garage is where your roots grow.
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
Csilla Toldy for Earth Day
My head is the earth,
my skin the air
dusk is my hair.
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
Csilla Toldy for Earth Day
My head is the earth,
my skin the air
dusk is my hair.
Previously featured
On the Third Day of Christmas we bring you Oliver Comins, D.A.Prince, Beliz McKenzie
What does a tree make of Christmas glitter,
our mix of homemade stars and glassy birds,
drizzle of tinsel, and the radiators?
On the Second Day of Christmas we bring you Lucy A Kulwieć, Adam Elms, Maurice Devitt
It was when your hair fell like snow I found it again. No longer moon blonde, time had coppered the hair auburn. The garage is where your roots grow.
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
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...