Marnie Cockrill brings a sharp medical eye to her poem, 'Clerking notes'.
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Marnie Cockrill brings a sharp medical eye to her poem, 'Clerking notes'.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/marnie-cockr...
'Salvage' by Ashley Mangtani is a prose breath of fresh air...
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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...
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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.
#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
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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].
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.
Truth in all its 'beautiful horror'. 'Deliverance' from Nina Nazir for IS&T's weeklong National Poetry Day feature. inksweatandtears.co.uk/wonder-nina-...
🎶 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.
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#Wonder continues ! Today brings you 'egg' by Geraldine Stoneham, 'Matryoshka' by Guinevere Clark / @guinevereclarkpoet.bsky.social and 'Hale-Bopp' by Annette Skade.
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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.
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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...
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.
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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.
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Sometimes you only need a little poem to capture a big moment. Ken Cockburn illustrates this in his poem, 'Duomo'
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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.
'Balancing' by Tim Dwyer asks a question that will consume your thoughts: 'do corvids feel pride?'
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'When we die, do we' by Genna Gardini is a poem that zooms out further and further until we are just tiny, wonderful specks.
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'Sunflowers' by Fran Hayden is the little pick-me-up you need, we promise.
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'At Sea' by Betty Doyle might leave you feeling slightly adrift, but in a sea of your own longing if you've lost somebody...
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