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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Jake Roberts
hamlet asked it to the dark night sea
where do waters end and i begin
Miguel Cullen
The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended crest and mouth.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
Word & Image
Molly Knox
Ferns There was a cold winding music a frozen answer. I knelt under time’s branches. The year the ferns sang. The year...
Filmpoems
Lee Campbell
One day, one day
We will sit on that bench
under the lights
Overlooking the river
which you sweetly
think is the sea
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
Word & Image
Molly Knox
Ferns There was a cold winding music a frozen answer. I knelt under time’s branches. The year the ferns sang. The year...
Filmpoems
Lee Campbell
One day, one day
We will sit on that bench
under the lights
Overlooking the river
which you sweetly
think is the sea
Previously featured
Jake Roberts
hamlet asked it to the dark night sea
where do waters end and i begin
Miguel Cullen
The pelican is so dovey, with her funny crème anglaise feathers with pink and her split-ended crest and mouth.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Rachael Clyne’s ‘Homeland’ is the June 2025 Pick of the Month! Read and hear it here.
‘Diaspora dialogue; the place and the displaced’
‘Thought provoking. A rich, reflective poem that carries itself well.’
‘The way the land responds to human tragedy’
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
by Elena Chamberlain is the April 2025 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Queer positivity
It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it.
Reviews
In Praise Of…: Setareh Ebrahimi reviews ‘Where the Land Forgets Itself’ by Connor Sansby
Where the Land Forgets Itself is both humorous and subversive. It leaves the reader questioning: What is material? What is reality? It is a fundamental quizzing of everything where nothing is assumed but pain, and beauty.
In Praise Of…: Annie Brechin reviews ‘Divorcee Disco Music’ by Christopher Crawford
What is being questioned? Many things: relationships, reality, death, the society that binds us and fractures us at once.
In Praise of.. : Alison Hramiak Reviews ‘Songs For Wo(Men)’ by Mugabi Byenka
‘a journey which bleeds through the book, and which holds such a powerful and moving tale’







