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September 25, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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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
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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.

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Garden and groundskeeper. Title: 'Cyclamen'. Quotes: 'I woke to workers with blades' and 'along the verge, yellow-jacketed'. Poet: Gill Horitz.
March 9, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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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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Abstract Motion Speed Light with Night City Background. Title: To My Ovaries. Quotes: 'Relay racers. Nightmares wished upon stars' and 'In my brain you're pendula on speed'. Poet: Elaine Baker.
March 7, 2026 at 10:35 AM
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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.

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Crack in ice-sheets over ocean water. Text overlaying photo reads: Sea lillies filter-feed anchored on wrecks. Title reads: Aquamarine Bottom text reads: Nigel King (C)
February 28, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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@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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Bright coral. Text overlayed on photo reads: history heaps sheering waves shattering across reefs. Title reads: The long arc Bottom text reads: Clare Bryden (c)
February 27, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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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.

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February 26, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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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.

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Shelves of unglazed, pale clay vases. Text overlayed on photo reads: I spread butter-yellow tights up my legs, Title reads: Being Morandi's Bottle Bottom text reads: Kim Cullen (c)
February 25, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Today's featured poem is Mark G. Pennington's haunting and surreal depiction of 'The sea organ city'.

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Branches of an olive tree against a pale blue sky. Text overlayed on photo reads: the nightjars roost on ram-tarmacked roads. Title reads: The sea organ city Bottom text reads: Mark G. Pennington (c)
February 24, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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Ivan McGuinness' 'Bourn Identity' meditates on how the movement of water affects a place and our relationship with it.

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A watermill. Text overlayed on photo reads: Pool falls over rock riffles into deeper ways. Title reads: Bourn Identity. Bottom text reads: Ivan McGuinness (c)
February 23, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Elizabeth Wilson Davies' 'Watermarked' reflects on the legacy of national resistance and protest in response, specifically the violence of forgetting.

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A temperate valley. Text overlayed on photo reads: concreted over cemetery, only eight bodies exhumed, Title reads: Watermarked. Bottom text reads: Elizabeth Wilson Davies (C)
February 22, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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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.

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People working in an office together. Text overlaying photo reads: Some days the smell lingers, stomach turns Title reads: Office Workers Against Sewage Bottom text reads: Kay Feneley (C)
February 21, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Our latest Word and Image poem, Emily Coles' 'tangential light', ties the order made scientifically of star patterns to the transcendental feeling starlight evokes.

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Image of beige tracing paper over which bold black circles are intersected by connecting lines. Text overlayed on photo reads: clear skies nightfall, constellations, spool. a regular pattern. metrical rhythm not simply read but sung. Title reads: tangential light Bottom text reads: Emily Coles (C)
February 21, 2026 at 1:45 PM
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David I. Hughes' 'The Cartographer' makes visible the power and violence of mapmaking.

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David I. Hughes' 'The Cartographer' makes visible the power and violence of mapmaking. Read it here: https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/david-i-hughes #FeaturedPoem #InkSweatAndTears
February 20, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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Anne Stewart's '03:41 Downstairs' is a lyrical shushing for the sleepless who are left to witness the peacefully dreaming.

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A grey and white cat sleeping. Text overlayed on photo reads: Sleep, hyenas, sleep. There, there... Title reads: 03:42 Downstairs. Bottom text reads: Anne Stewart (C)
February 19, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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Set in Australia, Mark Czanik's 'Scavengers' remembers the companionship found between two struggling writers.

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A shiny red typewriter. Text over photo reads: I spent hours then lonely as a wound. Title reads: Scavengers. Bottom text reads: Mark Czanik (c)
February 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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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.

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A barber's tools. Text over photo reads: at fifteen learned the grammar of heads. Title reads: At the Barbers. Bottom text reads: Stephen Chappell (c)
February 17, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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Tristan Moss' 'Faith' captures hope as a precipice which must be walked mindfully. @tristan-moss.bsky.social

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A square stairwell shot from above. Text over photo reads: I try not to think about my daughter’s condition. Title reads: Faith. Bottom text reads: Tristan Moss (c)
February 16, 2026 at 11:45 AM
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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.

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Blister packets of bright pills. Text overlayed on photo reads: patience and tenderness wring their hands. Title reads: If It’s Really Love, Then You Have To Accept This, Too. Bottom text reads: Susan J. Atkinson (c)
February 15, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Desiring to get closer to the Other, Peter Daniels' 'Changes' describes a series of metamorphoses. @peterdaniels.bsky.social

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Cells in various stages of mitosis with their DNA stained dark purple. Text over photo reads: look at the change in him, look at what he wants again. Title reads: Changes. Bottom text reads: Peter Daniels (C)
February 14, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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Paul Stephenson's 'Attraction' describes a menacing pattern of repetition.

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Menacing photo of a carousel horse against a dark background. Text overlayed on photo reads: round in circles sliding up and down a pole. Title reads: Attraction. Bottom text reads: Paul Stephenson (C)
February 13, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Melanie Branton's 'Anorexia Nervosa' is a sonically accomplished compilation of energy and destruction. @melaniebranton.bsky.social

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A mine. Text over photo reads: Arson, via an ex. Ore. A ravine. Title reads: Anorexia Nervosa. Bottom text reads: Melanie Branton (c)
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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@coliverpoet.bsky.social Charlotte Oliver's 'Repeat' imagines two women, and both the destructive and constructive power of soothing repetitive rituals.

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A ticket fed into a parking meter. Text over photo reads: I feel the edge of their curve over and over like a chant. Title reads: Repeat. Bottom text reads: Charlotte Oliver (C)
February 9, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Peter Devonald's 'Father' is a rich portrait of a suffocating patriarch. @pdevonald.bsky.social

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A smoky cigar and glass of whisky. Text overlayed on photo reads: olives and kale, The Telegraph and Magritte's pipe. Title reads: Father. Bottom text reads: Peter Devonald (c)
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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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.

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An old schoolhouse painted white. Text over photo reads: pitted beams, capable supports. A half-roof peeled off. Title reads: Self-Portrait as an Old Schoolhouse. Bottom text reads: Anne Ryland (C)
February 7, 2026 at 12:30 PM