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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Lesley Burt
There’s a house in a suburb of between-the-wars pebble-dash & bay windows, where the soundtrack is sighs, tuts & bellows, the clash of plates & jangle of cutlery.
Gabrielle Meadows
She gets into your bed
like when she was little.
Flowers grow out of the wardrobe,
moss claims the windowsill
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Buried’ by Tamara Salih is March 2026 Pick of the Month on IS&T. Read & Hear It Read Here!
‘It captures the silence and stillness of childhood snow and all it can mask and hide beautifully’
NB: (In above image, central photo of a snow tunnel/cave – looking up – is by Alexandros Giannakakis via unsplash.com.)
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Angela Yausheva
In the aftermath
When the dust is settled and silence restored
I can still hear your melody and recite each conversation word for word
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Buried’ by Tamara Salih is March 2026 Pick of the Month on IS&T. Read & Hear It Read Here!
‘It captures the silence and stillness of childhood snow and all it can mask and hide beautifully’
NB: (In above image, central photo of a snow tunnel/cave – looking up – is by Alexandros Giannakakis via unsplash.com.)
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Angela Yausheva
In the aftermath
When the dust is settled and silence restored
I can still hear your melody and recite each conversation word for word
Previously featured
Lesley Burt
There’s a house in a suburb of between-the-wars pebble-dash & bay windows, where the soundtrack is sighs, tuts & bellows, the clash of plates & jangle of cutlery.
Gabrielle Meadows
She gets into your bed
like when she was little.
Flowers grow out of the wardrobe,
moss claims the windowsill
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025. Read and Hear It Here!
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
‘A cry that defies repression and a spirit that refuses to be silenced.’
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Read and Hear it Here: Clara-Læïla Laudette’s ‘The purpose’ is our Pick of the Month for September 2025. Huge Congratulations!
‘Quietly devasting poem’
‘Fresh, alive, original, funny’
Reviews
Zain Rishi on Meredith MacLeod Davidson
From the opening poem of Meredith MacLeod Davidson’s transpiration, we find ourselves in a landscape haunted by cycles of loss. ‘Anchorless / a boat bangs against sea-weathered pylons,’ and this same lack of purpose and the inevitably of decay is infused throughout the imagery of “Deltaville”.
Shannon Clinton-Copeland on Lewis Buxton
“Every poem in Mate Arias is a supporting column in the architecture of a tenderly rendered pantheon to friendship and the myriad forms of platonic love, particularly between men. The pamphlet is made up of twenty-three sonnets, each a vignette of affection, contemplation and memory.”
Chris Hardy on Quentin Cowdry
The poems are carefully structured in regular stanzas, with well-paced, rhythmical lines and deft use of enjambment. The various subjects and themes, which differentiate and unite the work, are built on close observation of the world, of nature and human experience, and how we relate to and respond to it.