We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems and word & image. Print publishing as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Tweets by @ZCarpenterHall / @KateBirchIST.
In what ways does a forest move? In Cáit O’Neill McCullagh's poem 'And when you step into the clearing', the forest becomes the stage and the performance.
@kittyjmac
Read it here: https://t.co/KVDfRK41hG
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'Again' by @adamcairnspoet beautifully and intimately traces the landscape looking for signs. In this poem everything in the countryside seems to take on qualities of the spring that the speaker is trying to find.
https://t.co/DIaIHYFKJZ
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When is it better to be kind than honest and vice versa? Siân Bentham's poem 'Knowledge' is a poem where the speaker grapples with knowledge that the other person lacks.
Read it here: https://t.co/dYqPNy9JfW
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We've slipped into June which makes it time to vote for IS&T's #PickoftheMonth for May! Choose from
@cathholland01, Daniel Cartwright-Chaouki, Ian Hickey, Jackson, Robin Lindsay Wilson and Winifred Mok. https://t.co/11ZXqGIPsX #InkSweatAndTears#Poetry#Prose#Vote
Final Call (for my internship!) & I want to know what MOVES you? I'm interested in pieces that explore the body, movement, what poetry in motion might feel like & underrepresented bodies of all abilities and shapes.
Submit to @ZCarpenterHall. More at https://t.co/pOEjD4gNur
@AnnCUTHBERT5@cathholland01 It was a temporary glitch. Apologies. It is working now. Please use the link shown on our web page and not the one direct to Survey Monkey. That can change!
Have you ever felt misunderstood? J.P Lancaster's poem 'Ivy's deference and not' presents the reader with the unsung and undervalued qualities of ivy in its defence.
Read it here: https://t.co/muNQSWrzgN
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Amy Dugmore's poem renders a not so routine hospital visit and questions morph and stretch to cover the broadest of interests and concerns. Who is asking the questions changes too, almost imperceptibly.
https://t.co/Li1nyI1gPF
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Hannah Linden's poem 'Humanoid' reveals a relationship through shifting and ever updating metaphors.
Read it here:
https://t.co/99qnfeM1RX
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From the IS&T Archives: Brandon Ra Pestano's experimental filmpoem utilising footage of the first ever recording of an astronomical event, a solar eclipse captured by magician Nevil Maskelyne in 1900.
https://t.co/UyokRDqVj3
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Ananya S Guha's poem puts the reader in the mind of the dreamer where images can morph or appear in front of your eyes and familiar objects can serve different purposes.
Read 'Halting Dreams' here: https://t.co/51t9prCVEK
#InkSweatandTears#Poetry#Submissions#Dream#Surreal
'In Roundling time when
days were young and she
grew younger –'
Delightful Word & Image from the IS&T archives. Engage with C. Albert's 'Flora the Poet' on https://t.co/vv7bR6Y1v9
Humorous and triumphant with moments of quiet contemplation, Peter Leight's poem 'Instead of Dying I'm Taking a Trip' approaches its end of life subject in an unconventional way.
Read it here: https://t.co/ElKgtJNnPt
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'Unsent' by Robert A. Cozzi lets the audience into a space of intimacy and disclosure that the addressee will never see. The poem contemplates friendship and a potential unrequited love.
https://t.co/Ktrg68IsBZ
#InkSweatandTears#Poetry#Submissions#Friendship#UnsentMessage