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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Rizwan Akhtar
What fell between an abrupt shower
and a sky’s attitude was your memory.
Jeff Gallagher
Colleagues munching bap and burger
thought Ramadan was that juicy winger,
his scorching pace soon snaffled up by City.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Mashed Deborah Nash lives in Brighton, S.E. England. She studied visual...
Filmpoems
Nicole Carter for Mental Health Awareness Week
I saw a meme on Social Media, it said “You will change the World just by being a warm, kind-hearted person.” I so want to believe in that.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image

Deborah Nash
Mashed Deborah Nash lives in Brighton, S.E. England. She studied visual...
Filmpoems

Nicole Carter for Mental Health Awareness Week
I saw a meme on Social Media, it said “You will change the World just by being a warm, kind-hearted person.” I so want to believe in that.
Previously featured
Rizwan Akhtar
What fell between an abrupt shower
and a sky’s attitude was your memory.
Jeff Gallagher
Colleagues munching bap and burger
thought Ramadan was that juicy winger,
his scorching pace soon snaffled up by City.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
‘A Town of Shadows’ by Joe Williams is the final Pick of the Month for 2024. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line’
‘Clear structure, directness, chilling emotion’
‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Reviews
In Praise of: Carolyn Oulton reviews ‘The Horse And The Girl’ and ‘Maiden Mother Crone’ by Madeleine White
‘Both collections speak to the tradition of the quest narrative, as the female speaker draws on nature and spiritual histories to navigate 21st century problems.’
In Praise of: Jean Atkin reviews ‘Janus’ by Catherine Ayres
“There’s a generosity about this collection, laid right alongside the vulnerability that Ayres chooses to share with us.’
In Praise Of…Dennis Tomlinson reviews ‘Window’ by Yuko Minamikawa Adams
This poet has a talent for transforming the familiar world through the power of her imagination and, moreover, doing so in plain, down-to-earth language. Things are personified and persons are thingified, as in the poem ‘Ironing’, which reaches far beyond the ordinary domestic chore of its title.