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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Sef
The body is not solid. The body is almost perfect.
Wayne F. Burke
faces on a school bus:
petals of flowers
unopened
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
The Final IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Who will be your December choice?
Toby Cotton
Michelle Diaz
John Greening
Paula R. Hilton
Usha Kishore
Fiona Larkin
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
The Final IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Who will be your December choice?
Toby Cotton
Michelle Diaz
John Greening
Paula R. Hilton
Usha Kishore
Fiona Larkin
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
Sef
The body is not solid. The body is almost perfect.
Wayne F. Burke
faces on a school bus:
petals of flowers
unopened
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
The Final IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Who will be your December choice?
Toby Cotton
Michelle Diaz
John Greening
Paula R. Hilton
Usha Kishore
Fiona Larkin
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
‘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.’
Reviews
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.”
Chris Hardy on Quentin Cowdry
The poems are carefully structured in regular stanzas, with well-paced, rhythmical lines and deft use of enjambment. The various subjects and themes, which differentiate and unite the work, are built on close observation of the world, of nature and human experience, and how we relate to and respond to it.