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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Paul Stephenson
Like one of those horses
on the carousel
going round and round in circles
sliding up and down a pole
Joel Shelley
Dr Summers presses the ignition and the machine whirs to life.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Welcome Fathima Zahra, IS&T’s latest Editing Intern
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet and performer based in London. She is a Barbican Young Poet and Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her debut pamphlet sargam/ swargam was selected as PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2021.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely...
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Welcome Fathima Zahra, IS&T’s latest Editing Intern
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet and performer based in London. She is a Barbican Young Poet and Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her debut pamphlet sargam/ swargam was selected as PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2021.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
midnight sun Debbie Strange is a chronically ill short-form poet and haiga artist whose work has been widely...
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Previously featured
Paul Stephenson
Like one of those horses
on the carousel
going round and round in circles
sliding up and down a pole
Joel Shelley
Dr Summers presses the ignition and the machine whirs to life.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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...
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
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...
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...