Ink Sweat & Tears

@inksweatandtears.co.uk

Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 10, 2026, 3:11 PM

'Samaras' by David Lukens is an eerier reflection on nature but no less enchanting.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/david-lukens/

#InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Image: a sycamore tree surrounded by a green border

Text: Samaras

Everywhere you look these whips of sycamore, living
where they fell, rooting out some well of nourishment
in a wall, a bed, a yoghurt pot of rotting leaves.

David Lukens

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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...

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@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 9, 2026, 5:00 AM

Cited many times by the young editing interns we work with and an absolute legend! 🎊🎊🎊

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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

Image: some bottles surrounded by a grey-green border

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.uk Oct 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

Outer text on an ombre black to grey border

National Poetry Day
'Wonder'

Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi ‎

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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.uk Oct 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

Image: a stack of papers surrounded by a dusty pink border

Text: Wonder Day 6

Martin McKenna
Emma Dandy

@jmatkin.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 6:20 AMReposted by @inksweatandtears.co.uk

'Carry no metal as you walk onto the wooden bridge
built without nails.'
Thanks @inksweatandtears.co.uk
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@mathjones.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 2:03 PMReposted by @inksweatandtears.co.uk

Day Three of Wonder, celebrated by @inksweatandtears.co.uk

Poems by myself, by @jmatkin.bsky.social (really marvellous) and by @katenoakes.bsky.social (also truly marvellous).

And see their other days of celebration on site (4 so far)

#PoetrySky

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@suefinch.bsky.social Oct 5, 2026, 9:58 AMReposted by @inksweatandtears.co.uk

Delighted to have my poem 'The Plough' included here. Especially since it was written for #NationalPoetryDay AND it's a love poem!

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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].

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Text: Wonder Day 5

Shanta Acharya
Sue Finch
Miriam Otto

@ninanazir.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 9:35 PMReposted by @inksweatandtears.co.uk

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.uk Oct 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.uk Oct 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.uk Oct 3, 2026, 10:05 AM

Day 3 of our NPD celebrations brings you 'Numinous' by @mathjones.bsky.social, 'The Folklore of Bridges' by @jmatkin.bsky.social and 'The forager’s spell' by @katenoakes.bsky.social
Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-three-of...

#InkSweatsndTears #Wonder #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry

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Text: Wonder Day 3

Math Jones
Jean Atkin
Kate Noakes

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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

Image: matryoshka dolls

Text: Wonder Day 2

Geraldine Stoneham
Guinevere Clark
Annette Skade

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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.
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#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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

Image of crate covered in different clippings, texts and fonts.

Text:

National Poetry Day
'Wonder'

Word & Image
Rachel Carney

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Oct 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

Image: a bear surrounded by grass

Text: Wonder Day 1

Philippa Greasley
Cindy Botha
Niklas Pettersson

@inksweatandtears.co.uk Sep 30, 2026, 10:45 PM

My inbox is open again and I'm excited to read more. This time around I'm looking for filmpoems on the theme of 'transit'. I am also accepting submissions of poetry, flash, word & image and reviews. Email me at [email protected]. --Sabine

inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/

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