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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Elizabeth Loudon
The first three days of war
have a surprising holiday feel.
No deadlines, just the giddy gasp of shock.
Ordinary life continues.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Reimagination of Gravity’ by Paul Chuks is July’s Pick of the Month! Read and Hear it Here.
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it.
Wonderful way of observation
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

‘Reimagination of Gravity’ by Paul Chuks is July’s Pick of the Month! Read and Hear it Here.
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it.
Wonderful way of observation
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
Elizabeth Loudon
The first three days of war
have a surprising holiday feel.
No deadlines, just the giddy gasp of shock.
Ordinary life continues.
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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.
Read and Hear ‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley: IS&T’s September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Reviews
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.
In Praise Of…: Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary reviews ‘High Jump as Icarus Story’ by Gustav Parker Hibbett
As readers, we understand that the poems build towards liberation. Gustav Parker Hibbitt sees the high jump as a place to embrace their femininity, like “Ice Princess”, where they are “floral”, a “queen wear[ing] feathers”.