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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Ananya S Guha
The leaves are growing out of
a harangue of loneliness
palms cupped I listen to silences
of winter or summers
Peter Leight
Instead of Dying I’m Taking a Trip
to Kansas
where the light appears
as if walking through a gate
in the air
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
Ananya S Guha
The leaves are growing out of
a harangue of loneliness
palms cupped I listen to silences
of winter or summers
Peter Leight
Instead of Dying I’m Taking a Trip
to Kansas
where the light appears
as if walking through a gate
in the air
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
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.
In Praise of … Mat Riches on Robin Houghton
Given how much she does for the poetry community—the Planet Podcast series with Peter Kenny, her monthly submissions newsletter, her blog posts, her books on getting published, launching a publisher with other folks, etc., it’s heartwarming to see the attention being placed back on Robin’s writing.
In Praise of… : Arup K. Chatterjee reviews ‘A Different Story’ by Amlanjyoti Goswami
A Different Story conjures a subject that resists acts of dumping trauma, instead alchemizing them into dry humor and decorous irreverence, sans complacency or arrogance