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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Tess Jolly
When I went round the next day
with a bottle of wine, his wife said
he was bruised down both sides
Jenny Mitchell
There’s no one in the flat when I come home from school,
my dinner in the fridge – poison on a flowered plate,
covered with tin foil, surrounded by full shelves of poison.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Beginner’s Italian’ by James Mason is the IS&T Pick of the Month for July 2026. Read and Hear it Now!
‘Personal, clear, relatable, precise, human. Poetry.’
‘I love it. It so accurately demonstrates the painfulness of those early days when your language competency is so limited that your personality feels suppressed!’
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Panya Banjoko
She had seen more of the world
than there was left to see
and now the world saw her as old.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Beginner’s Italian’ by James Mason is the IS&T Pick of the Month for July 2026. Read and Hear it Now!
‘Personal, clear, relatable, precise, human. Poetry.’
‘I love it. It so accurately demonstrates the painfulness of those early days when your language competency is so limited that your personality feels suppressed!’
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Panya Banjoko
She had seen more of the world
than there was left to see
and now the world saw her as old.
Previously featured
Tess Jolly
When I went round the next day
with a bottle of wine, his wife said
he was bruised down both sides
Jenny Mitchell
There’s no one in the flat when I come home from school,
my dinner in the fridge – poison on a flowered plate,
covered with tin foil, surrounded by full shelves of poison.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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.’
‘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
Reviews
Jessica Mookherjee reviews ‘Grey Time’ by Julia Webb
Julia Webb’s Grey Time, her fourth collection with Nine Arches Press, insists on the full weather of grief.
Zain Rishi on Meredith MacLeod Davidson
From the opening poem of Meredith MacLeod Davidson’s transpiration, we find ourselves in a landscape haunted by cycles of loss. ‘Anchorless / a boat bangs against sea-weathered pylons,’ and this same lack of purpose and the inevitably of decay is infused throughout the imagery of “Deltaville”.
Shannon Clinton-Copeland on Lewis Buxton
“Every poem in Mate Arias is a supporting column in the architecture of a tenderly rendered pantheon to friendship and the myriad forms of platonic love, particularly between men. The pamphlet is made up of twenty-three sonnets, each a vignette of affection, contemplation and memory.”