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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
David Belcher
How to not exist
Allow yourself to be elbowed aside
become a non-person
an avoider of lingering looks
Simon Williams
I Want to Become
a weasel, in a sleeky, twisty body,
all eyes and teeth like a deadly zip.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Read, and hear, ‘Pomegranate’ by Sue Burge, the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2024
‘It is so spare – every word used to the max – beautiful, slow, confident, visceral words. I love it!’
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Filmpoems from the Archives: ‘Golden Hour’ by Celestine Stilwell.
Golden Hour Over great absences speckled with birds wings, a spell is lifted – dusk like a...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Read, and hear, ‘Pomegranate’ by Sue Burge, the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2024
‘It is so spare – every word used to the max – beautiful, slow, confident, visceral words. I love it!’
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Filmpoems from the Archives: ‘Golden Hour’ by Celestine Stilwell.
Golden Hour Over great absences speckled with birds wings, a spell is lifted – dusk like a...
Previously featured
David Belcher
How to not exist
Allow yourself to be elbowed aside
become a non-person
an avoider of lingering looks
Simon Williams
I Want to Become
a weasel, in a sleeky, twisty body,
all eyes and teeth like a deadly zip.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Read and hear it here!
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being repeated again and again in comments, it is no surprise that Becky May’s ‘My...
‘The Interior’ by Michał Choiński is October 2022’s Pick of the Month. Read, and hear it, here!
Silent scream over passing and decay. Describes dramatic events in delicate, calm and mundane way. Words that say it all and illustrate why ‘The Interior’ by Michał Choiński is the IS&T Pick of...
Jenny Pagdin is our September 2022 Pick of the Month Poet. Read and hear her poem here!
Evocative, timely and poignant Jenny Pagdin’s ‘Before the market town with the Pepper Pot building’ resonated with so many of you. You loved that you knew the place but understood, too, the...
Reviews
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s ‘Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency’
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency (Bloodaxe, 2022) by Helen Bowell When I read Chen Chen’s first book, When I Grow Up I Want To Be...
Ankit Raj Ojha In Praise Of ‘Strokes of Solace’ by Sanjeev Sethi
The title of Sanjeev Sethi’s sixth book of poetry, Strokes of Solace, proclaims a promise. And Sethi delivers, singing the universal human comedy from a personal vantage point while...
Rachael Clyne, In Praise of ‘Notes From A Shipwreck’ by Jessica Mookherjee
Jessica Mookherjee’s third collection, Notes From A Shipwreck is an epic voyage filled with maritime references. It weaves the poet’s Bengali Hindu heritage with classic European tales and alludes...