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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Dylan Foster
there’s not much you can do
when the planets
are telling you to stop
Jeff Skinner
Can’t hear yourself think only the bass line
of a heart thumping. Your head’s clamped.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Unexploded Bombs’ by Samantha Carr is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2026.
‘A very striking and thought provoking piece of work.’
‘I enjoyed how this reflected Plymouth’s landmarks (I’m from Plymouth) but also medical anxiety (which is a common theme in my life). Unsettling.’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
midnight sun
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire
Filmpoems
Eleanor Holmes
One winter I remember he looked up and said:
‘the moon is a melon.’
We’d made a telescope out of used loo roll
to look for Father Christmas.
cw: flickering images
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Unexploded Bombs’ by Samantha Carr is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2026.
‘A very striking and thought provoking piece of work.’
‘I enjoyed how this reflected Plymouth’s landmarks (I’m from Plymouth) but also medical anxiety (which is a common theme in my life). Unsettling.’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
midnight sun
a polar bear’s breath
catches fire
Filmpoems
Eleanor Holmes
One winter I remember he looked up and said:
‘the moon is a melon.’
We’d made a telescope out of used loo roll
to look for Father Christmas.
cw: flickering images
Previously featured
Dylan Foster
there’s not much you can do
when the planets
are telling you to stop
Jeff Skinner
Can’t hear yourself think only the bass line
of a heart thumping. Your head’s clamped.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘When young boys go missing’ by Abu Ibrahim is the Pick of the Month for July 2024. Read and hear it here!
‘The poem speaks truth’
‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ by Robin Houghton is the June 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here.
‘Beautiful interweaving of nature and human concerns’
‘What Part of Me?’ by Jenny Mitchell is IS&T’s May 2024 Pick of the Month
It stopped me in my tracks. I was there by the graveside full of emotion and discomfort and – now I feel disturbed but compassionate
Reviews
In Praise of… Claire Dyer’s ‘The Adjustments’ by Vic Pickup
‘The poems within speak of multiple losses, grief – historic and new – and yet, the reader emerges from the pages with a fullness, a sense of calm completion – the sum of their own adjustments perhaps?’
In Praise of…: Anna Saunders Reviews ‘Blood Alluvium’ by S. Preston Duncan
A stunning collection with its own unique and redemptive music, written by the writer whose work novelist Tom Robbins described as ‘the feeling of having asked (and received) an autograph from starlight’.
Claire Booker In Praise of… ‘Birds Knit My Ribs Together’ by Phil Barnett
When poets write from the core of their beings, good things arise. Anyone fascinated by wild life and the wonderment it can inspire would do well to add this collection to their bookshelves.