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LOUISIANA LOVING
September 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I would build a pyre
fill it with your bones
no need for forgiveness
pray for salvation
under my thumbs

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September 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Gill Horitz's poem 'Cyclamen' implicitly asks the question of what it means to cut back vegetation, both that which is dying and trying to survive.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/gill-horitz-2/

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March 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Elaine Baker's poem, 'To My Ovaries' is an unrhymed unmetered sonnet, an anti-love poem with comedic wit, an anti-ode for a complex muse.

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March 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
A horizon of possibilities spills out of Nigel King's 'Aquamarine', which evokes a stunning arctic environment as full and festering with life as it is bleak and hostile.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/nigel-king-3/

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February 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
@clarebryden.bsky.social's 'The long arc' explores alternative ways of knowing, paying respect to the ways in which coral knows history and its environment, and the power it has to communicate that knowledge.

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February 27, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Gail Webb's 'Something Missing' explores how the experience of medical intervention, even when engaged with under informed consent, can leave scars on our sense of self.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/gail-webb-2/

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February 26, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Kim Cullen's 'Being Morandi’s Bottle' interrupts the violence and cruelty of modern visual language media with a fun and artful engagement with a painting.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/kim-cullen/

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February 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Today's featured poem is Mark G. Pennington's haunting and surreal depiction of 'The sea organ city'.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/mark-g-penni...

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February 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Ivan McGuinness' 'Bourn Identity' meditates on how the movement of water affects a place and our relationship with it.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ivan-mcguinn...

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February 23, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Elizabeth Wilson Davies' 'Watermarked' reflects on the legacy of national resistance and protest in response, specifically the violence of forgetting.

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February 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Kay Feneley's 'Office Workers Against Sewage' ties the rhythms of a tiring working week to the record of regular and relentless sewage leakages in the UK.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/kay-feneley/

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February 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
Our latest Word and Image poem, Emily Coles' 'tangential light', ties the order made scientifically of star patterns to the transcendental feeling starlight evokes.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/emily-coles/

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February 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
David I. Hughes' 'The Cartographer' makes visible the power and violence of mapmaking.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/david-i-hughes

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February 20, 2026 at 10:06 AM
Anne Stewart's '03:41 Downstairs' is a lyrical shushing for the sleepless who are left to witness the peacefully dreaming.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/anne-stewart/

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February 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Set in Australia, Mark Czanik's 'Scavengers' remembers the companionship found between two struggling writers.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/mark-czanik-3/

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February 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Stephen Chappell's 'At the Barbers' is a loving portrait which pays close attention to the close attention its subject pays to her work and customers.

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

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February 17, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Tristan Moss' 'Faith' captures hope as a precipice which must be walked mindfully. @tristan-moss.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/tristan-moss...

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February 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM
Susan J. Atkinson's 'If It’s Really Love, Then You Have To Accept This, Too' is a heart-wrenching portrait of love shared in difficulty and sickness.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/susan-j-atki...

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February 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
Desiring to get closer to the Other, Peter Daniels' 'Changes' describes a series of metamorphoses. @peterdaniels.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/peter-daniel...

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February 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Paul Stephenson's 'Attraction' describes a menacing pattern of repetition.

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

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February 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Melanie Branton's 'Anorexia Nervosa' is a sonically accomplished compilation of energy and destruction. @melaniebranton.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/melanie-bran...

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February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
@coliverpoet.bsky.social Charlotte Oliver's 'Repeat' imagines two women, and both the destructive and constructive power of soothing repetitive rituals.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/charlotte-ol...

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February 9, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Peter Devonald's 'Father' is a rich portrait of a suffocating patriarch. @pdevonald.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/peter-devona...

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February 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
A unique take on portraiture, Anne Ryland's 'Self-Portrait as an Old Schoolhouse' imagines a second life for a derelict building which is visited by a new kind of liveliness.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/anne-ryland/

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February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM