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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Susan Elizabeth Hale
Sometimes words are the only thing
that get you through,
But not the words you think,
not a word like love or hope
those are imprecise.
Seán Street
We lit a candle for you
that day in Sacre Coeur,
under its white-flame dome
as high as Paris could go
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Evacuation
our shutters open
Filmpoems
Joanna Jowett
How Grief Sometimes Sits
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Evacuation
our shutters open
Filmpoems
Joanna Jowett
How Grief Sometimes Sits
Previously featured
Susan Elizabeth Hale
Sometimes words are the only thing
that get you through,
But not the words you think,
not a word like love or hope
those are imprecise.
Seán Street
We lit a candle for you
that day in Sacre Coeur,
under its white-flame dome
as high as Paris could go
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Burglaries’ by Darren Deeks is IS&T’s February 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and listen to it here!
‘Loss captured beautifully’
‘Curious and unpredictable’
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!’
Read and hear it here! ‘Lovely Feet’ by Maureen Jivani is IS&T’s final Pick of the Month for 2023!
‘Lyricism, surreal beauty, authentic capturing of love & loss’
Reviews
Alan Peat In Praise Of… ‘Faunistics: A Collection of Wild Haiku and Illustrations’
In both style and compass Thomas demonstrates a subtle modernity… His poems are steeped in the nature-tradition of the haiku world.
Kayleigh Jayshree In Praise Of … ‘when the flies come’ by Fahad Al-Amoudi
‘a one-of-a-kind pamphlet, with echoing defamiliarisation, poems linked by their causality, and meditations on music, change, and belief’
Silas Curtis reviews Noor Hindi’s ‘Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow’ (2022) and Mohammed el-Kurd’s ‘Rifqa’ (2021) on Holocaust Memorial Day
‘What’s real is us’