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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Tom Blake
We were the housing and the housed,
meaning nothing except that
we were always occupied,
or to put it simply never out.
Kate Bonfield
Coming home to days of heat
trapped beyond the door, to time skewed
by time away, the house bigger and
smaller than before.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
The IS&T Nominations for the 2026 Forward Prize Best Single Poem (Written)
John Bartlett
Rachael Clyne
Mariam Saidan
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
I am born of the folk of the tropical coasts,
salt-rimmed hands my inheritance. I trace
the vestiges of webs between my fingers—
folds printed with the pearlescent stripes
Filmpoems
Erin Coppin and Dr Jo Scott
British Columbia, Canada, 2021: We are surviving the vagaries of climate change
1. Heat dome: I’ve had to water my plants two times a day so they don’t die.
2. Five hundred and ninety-five people died as a direct result of extreme heat.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
The IS&T Nominations for the 2026 Forward Prize Best Single Poem (Written)
John Bartlett
Rachael Clyne
Mariam Saidan
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
I am born of the folk of the tropical coasts,
salt-rimmed hands my inheritance. I trace
the vestiges of webs between my fingers—
folds printed with the pearlescent stripes
Filmpoems
Erin Coppin and Dr Jo Scott
British Columbia, Canada, 2021: We are surviving the vagaries of climate change
1. Heat dome: I’ve had to water my plants two times a day so they don’t die.
2. Five hundred and ninety-five people died as a direct result of extreme heat.
Previously featured
Tom Blake
We were the housing and the housed,
meaning nothing except that
we were always occupied,
or to put it simply never out.
Kate Bonfield
Coming home to days of heat
trapped beyond the door, to time skewed
by time away, the house bigger and
smaller than before.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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’
Read, and Hear, ‘sclerenchyma’ by John Bartlett – the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2025!
‘Evocative, descriptive, challenging and uplifting’
‘The eloquence of phrase and sentiment and timing is brilliant.’
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