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@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 9, 2026, 1:33 PM

Marnie Cockrill brings a sharp medical eye to her poem, 'Clerking notes'.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/marnie-cockr...

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 8, 2026, 11:05 AM

'Salvage' by Ashley Mangtani is a prose breath of fresh air...

@writerash.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ashley-mangt...

#InkSweatandTears #FlashFiction

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Text: Salvage 

By the third year, the sun had sorted the Japanese bottles from the Chinese ones. Kana went first, then the Chinese characters, then the English, the ink lifting off in that order every time.

Ashley Mangtani
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 7, 2026, 3:20 PM

The dark/ink almost feels like a drowning in Salil Chaturvedi's 'torn lantern' for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social. Peer into its depths and #Wonder on inksweatandtears.co.uk/wonder-salil... ‎

Thank-you for following our weeklong feature!

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #WordandImage

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torn lantern --
gathering the night's
emptiness

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National Poetry Day
'Wonder'

Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi ‎
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 7, 2026, 9:00 AM

Our wonderful features are wiggling to an end; today's final flourish begins with Helen Anderson's 'I Wish This Phone Had a Better Camera' and 'Written by Candlelight in March' by @suejohns.bsky.social.

Here at: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-seven-of...

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Wonder

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Text: Wonder Day 7 

Helen Anderson
Sue Johns
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 6, 2026, 12:15 PM

#Wonder is winding down, but while there's still more sand in the hourglass, please enjoy 'Prolonged Panic Attack II' by Martin McKenna and 'Do you know how your mum and dad met?' by Emma Dandy

Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-six-of-w...

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry

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Text: Wonder Day 6 

Martin McKenna
Emma Dandy
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 5, 2026, 9:50 AM

Today's poems meditating on the expansive theme of #Wonder are 'Incarnation' by Shanta Acharya, 'The Plough' by @suefinch.bsky.social and 'I create little worlds' by @[email protected].

inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-five-of-...

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry

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Text: Wonder Day 5

Shanta Acharya
Sue Finch
Miriam Otto
@ninanazir.bsky.socialOct 4, 2026, 9:35 PM

I'm so delighted to have my word and image poem "Deliverance" published with @inksweatandtears.co.uk today! 🩷 Do check it out below. Poem reads:

It's valuable vulnerable work
telling the truth
in all its beautiful horror.

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #deliverance

@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 4, 2026, 7:07 PM

Truth in all its 'beautiful horror'. 'Deliverance' from Nina Nazir for IS&T's weeklong National Poetry Day feature. inksweatandtears.co.uk/wonder-nina-...

@ninanazir.bsky.social

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Wonder

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It's valuable
vulnerable work
telling the truth
in all its beautiful horror

Social media text:

National Poetry Day
'Wonder'
Word & Image
Nina Nazir
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 4, 2026, 11:56 AM

🎶 on the fourth day of #Wonder, IS&T gave to me...🎶 'Memory and Sky' by Rupert Loydell, 'Inventing the Wheel' by Nick Cooke and 'Does it rain diamonds on Saturn?' by Dave Hubble.

Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-four-of-...

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry

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Text: Wonder Day 4

Rupert Loydell
Nick Cooke
Dave Hubble
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 2, 2026, 9:00 AM

#Wonder continues ! Today brings you 'egg' by Geraldine Stoneham, 'Matryoshka' by Guinevere Clark / @guinevereclarkpoet.bsky.social and 'Hale-Bopp' by Annette Skade.

Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-two-of-w...

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #NationalPoetryDay

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Text: Wonder Day 2

Geraldine Stoneham
Guinevere Clark
Annette Skade
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 1, 2026, 5:45 PM

From the archives for @poetrydayuk.bsky.social: a filmpoem by Moira McPartlin / @moiramcpartlin.bsky.social for the late Spike Walker. It is 'Magnificence' and full of #Wonder.
inksweatandtears.co.uk/wonder-moira...

#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay

@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 1, 2026, 12:37 PM

Texts placed inside a crate to create 'Poem Under Construction'. Photos of the finished collage become #WordandImage: 'Wondering: Poem Under Construction'. These are #Wonder (ful).

@createdtoread.bsky.social for #NationalPoetryDay on inksweatandtears.co.uk/wonder-rache...

#InkSweatandTears

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National Poetry Day
'Wonder'

Word & Image
Rachel Carney
@inksweatandtears.co.ukOct 1, 2026, 10:40 AM

We're kicking off our celebrations of National Poetry Day strong. Our first day of #Wonder brings you poems from Philippa Greasley, Cindy Botha and Niklas Pettersson.

Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-one-of-w...

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #NationalPoetryDay

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Text: Wonder Day 1

Philippa Greasley 
Cindy Botha
Niklas Pettersson
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 30, 2026, 10:15 PM

Emma Dandy's 'I found it particularly hard as a dad' bites at a broken system in a formidable prose poem that will lay on your heart.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/emma-dandy/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

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Text: I found it particularly hard as a dad.’  

I’ve been staring at the blank page of this notebook for an hour. I close my eyes and breathe in for four, hold for four and out for eight, then repeat three times.

Emma Dandy
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 30, 2026, 9:00 AM

Sometimes you only need a little poem to capture a big moment. Ken Cockburn illustrates this in his poem, 'Duomo'

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ken-cockburn/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

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Text: Duomo

We slept as best we could on the night train.
Leaving the station we walked empty streets

aimlessly until turning a corner
there it was, silent and vast as the moon.

Ken Cockburn
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 28, 2026, 4:00 PM

Satya Bosman reviews 'The Lives We Had Before' by Vanessa Napolitano / @moette.bsky.social and is strongly drawn to this 'remarkable' collection: Part of our 'In Praise of...' series.

inksweatandtears.co.uk/satya-bosman...

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Review

Cover of Vanessa Napolitano's 'The Lives We Had Before' showing a woman's hand rising from an assortment of pale daisy-like flowers.

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'Each poem is a story, an empathy machine, a portal into her rich and vivid imagination’

Review by Satya Bosman
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 28, 2026, 9:05 AM

'Balancing' by Tim Dwyer asks a question that will consume your thoughts: 'do corvids feel pride?'

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/tim-dwyer-5/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Image: two birds against a grey background surrounded by a black background

Text: Balancing 

On the pitch of the roof
a jackdaw holds a twig
longer than its wingspan—
do corvids feel pride?

Tim Dwyer
@inksweatandtears.co.ukSep 27, 2026, 9:05 AM

'When we die, do we' by Genna Gardini is a poem that zooms out further and further until we are just tiny, wonderful specks.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/genna-gardini/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Image: shooting stars surrounded by a cream border

Text: When we die, do we

go back, small cell, atom
slit by light. It takes up 
space, an ocean, a planet, a 
god. Too large to understand 
the scale, although we accept
the concept. Constellations,

Genna Gardini
@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/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

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/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

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
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