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@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 26, 2026, 8:45 AM

'Sunflowers' by Fran Hayden is the little pick-me-up you need, we promise.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/fran-hayden/

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Image: sunflowers in the city surrounded by a yellow border Text: Sunflowers that was all I needed to remember that somewhere in this world I still bloom in someone else’s mind. Fran Hayden
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 25, 2026, 9:00 AM

'At Sea' by Betty Doyle might leave you feeling slightly adrift, but in a sea of your own longing if you've lost somebody...

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/betty-doyle/

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Image: a foamy sea surrounded by a white border Text: At Sea My grandmother, loosened slowly into Cardigan Bay under a Hay Moon. My best friend, spread across a bed of Pacific seamount, five years before. Down there, the rocks are hot. Betty Doyle
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 24, 2026, 12:51 PM

The images of Mark Rutter's 'Well' will remain long after it has been read (or burned down).

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/mark-rutter/

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image: a dilapidated house in the woods surrounded by a brown border Text: Well when the people are gone and the wooden house has been burned down to recover its nails Mark Rutter
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 23, 2026, 3:00 PM

'Relevant, brave and urgently important'

Huge congratulations to Viv Fogel whose poem 'At the End of the Class' is the IS&T #PickoftheMonth for August 2026. Revisit the poem and see more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/august-2026-...

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Image of desert landscape with hilly area in back just glimpsed and sun rising from the water. Overall gold haze and deep gold border. Text (centred) Congratulations Viv Fogel At the End of the Class IS&T August 2026 Pick of the Month
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 23, 2026, 11:15 AM

Gráinne Daly reflects on where her body belongs in spite of where it was made in 'Not for me Glasnevin'.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/grainne-daly/

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Image: an aerial view of fields surrounded by a green border Text: Not for me Glasnevin Not for me the tomb of Irish soil. Put me on a plane and let me make one last journey before my final departure. Gráinne Daly
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 22, 2026, 11:45 AM

'Why don't you eat pork?' by Rebecca Cohen is an act of siting through heritage and memory you won't want to miss

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/rebecca-cohen/

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Image: tiled floor with a strip of light surrounded by a dark border Text: why don't you eat pork? I have only the memory of a six-year-old who sat on the floor at Ohel Leah and hummed along to the davening, cradling a wooden cat in her lap. Rebecca Cohen
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 21, 2026, 8:45 AM

'Undertow' by Rhian Thomas is a haunting poem of a world sucked under water... Don't you wish that world was one only in their head?

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/rhian-thomas...

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Image: a coastal road surrounded by a grey border Text: Undertow I dream roads winding under water. Concrete like flaking skin or weed rising in glass-green depths. Scan through the earth’s crust you’ll find tectonic graveyards, plates you might have mapped in earlier oceans, landmasses in ribbons - now continents Rhian Thomas
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 20, 2026, 5:00 PM

Helen Ivory / @helenivory.bsky.social is currently open for general submissions of poetry and short prose. For more details go to inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/

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Semi-transparent image of typewriter with sheet of paper containing the word 'writing'. Grey blue background. Text in white (centred) Helen Ivory is currently open for general submissions of poetry and short prose. These will close at midnight on 30 September or when we reach 60 in total!
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 20, 2026, 4:32 PM

The theme of summer continues with 'Summer's End' by Sue Norton. Maybe a few more will bring back the warm weather...

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sue-norton/

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@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 19, 2026, 12:41 PM

Do check out our latest review! @timrelf.bsky.social is 'in Praise of' @andrewmcdonnell.bsky.social's '55 Devotionals (Against Erasure)' @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, finding a 'vein of joy, gratitude and wonder'.

inksweatandtears.co.uk/tim-relf-rev...

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Image of the cover of Andrew McDonnell's '55 Devotionals (Against Erasure)' which shows a painted dark green horizon against a deep sky blue. The border is grey blue. Text: 'a hugely insightful book with much to say about class, masculinity and family’ Review by Tim Relf
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 19, 2026, 9:20 AM

We can reminisce on summer in all shades. Steph Morris' 'Summers in Black' reminds us...

@herr-morris.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris...

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Image: children swimming in the water surrounded by a black background Text: Summers in Black Obviously I wouldn’t be wearing that bit, ever. But the shirts I lived in all summer, loose, but still black, a couple of buttons open, neck free, something most Jesus and Mary Chain fans didn’t have – something he could do. Steph Morris
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 18, 2026, 9:45 AM

'Going down to do lights and curtains to fool any burglars' by Kathy Pimlott is one of those poems composed by the lights of night time.

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Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/kathy-pimlot...

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Image: a street light tinted purple, surrounded by a light purple border Text: Going down to do lights and curtains to fool any burglars All done, street lamps cast my long shadow so it circles me as 1 walk back. It grows and shrinks, scales walls. Sensing something behind me, I stop, turn. There she stands, fox-smart Kathy Pimlott
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 17, 2026, 9:00 AM

'Free Range' by Sharon Black is abstract in a way that will wriggle under your skin to your nerves, but it intends to.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sharon-black/

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Image: a fox in a rustic setting surrounded by a green-brown border Text: Free Range I have a tongue for truth and a tongue for lies. My mouth is dry, all this barking. People say I have something of the fox. Sharon Black
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 16, 2026, 6:12 PM

'A bit OCD' by Vanessa Napolitano holds its finger to the pulse of a mental health matter that is more than a bit complex, but Napolitano handles it beautifully.

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Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/vanessa-napo...

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Image: household clutter in black and white surrounded by a black background Text: A Bit OCD Floors are unvacuumed. Spices remain un-alphabetised. I bless the spaces between the furniture to keep everyone safe. Seven. I do not arrive exactly on time. Margins can keep their default size. I would like you to promise me this isn’t poison. This supermarket chicken. Vanessa Napolitano
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 15, 2026, 4:10 PM

Vote now for your IS&T #PickoftheMonth for August 2026. Will it be Aardhra Chandran, Viv Fogel, Janet Hatherley, @whatisaletter.bsky.social, Mark McDonnell or @damenobrien.bsky.social? Poems and the voting link are at inksweatandtears.co.uk/august-2026-...

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Image: August fields in the sunlight with VOTE icon bottom righr Text: IS&T August 2026 Pick of the Month Aardhra Chandran Viv Fogel Janet Hatherley Marie Isabel Matthews-Schlinzig Mark McDonnell Damen O’Brien
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 15, 2026, 9:00 AM

'Nostalgia as Yogi Bear' by Ben Verinder is a whimsical reminder that a poem comes in any package, so sort through your childhood and you might find a poem

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ben-verinder/

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Image: a picnic site surrounded by an olive green border Text: Nostalgia as Yogi Bear Lifts a memory from the pic-a-nic basket of your past and sniffs it excitedly. He lies about the freshness of the morsel. Exaggerates its taste. Ben Verinder
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 14, 2026, 9:00 AM

'I'm Just an Ordinary Dryad' by Jane Spray is exactly the type of poetry you would hope for from a poet hailing from the Forest of Dean.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jane-spray/

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Image: full moon seen through trees with a dark brown border around it Image: I’m just an ordinary dryad full moon in new dark rising to light skin and bark together woodbine up hazel shoots in loving arms under the boughs I lie all night in this secluded wood Jane Spray
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 13, 2026, 9:45 AM

This is the post of 'The Poem of the Sock' by Paul Stephenson.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-stephen...

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Image: reflection of orange trees in water surrounded by a light blue border Text: The Poem of the Sock The poem of the bath had no depth (full of bathos). The poem of the mirror was a true reflection. The poem of the plane never really took off. The poem of the ship soon ran aground. Paul Stephenson
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

'DayGlo' by Alex Josephy is a poem so resplendent it's as if it's clad in... hi-vis.

@alexjosephy.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/alex-josephy...

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Image: construction workers gathered around a fire surrounded by a neon yellow border Text: DayGlo Let us now praise hi-vis men who gather together round a pothole, filling the gap with their sticky black remedy. Alex Josephy
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 11, 2026, 8:46 AM

For all those feeling detached, 'Out of Place' by Claire Lynn is for you.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/claire-lynn/

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Image: an up-close shot of fir trees surrounded by a light green border Text: Out of Place I don’t understand. Christmas seems to come round faster each year. My small talk shrinks. I spray DON’T SPEAK TO ME across my reflection. Claire Lynn
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