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Staff picks for National Poetry Day!🌀

Megan, our Publishing Intern, chose Later Emperors by Evan Jones.

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we are having a 25% flash sale across our entire website! Use the code POETRYWEEK at checkout: www.carcanet.co.uk/
October 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
alisonlittle.bsky.social
Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free and revisit Liverpool’s colourful past! ✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/20...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana
The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free: A Liverpool Superlambanana Poem
Discover The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free, a poem celebrating Liverpool’s unforgettable 2008 Go Superlambanana trail. Written by artist Alison Little for National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme o…
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October 7, 2026 at 3:27 PM
inksweatandtears.co.uk
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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Black image with a single wavy white line to the left and the following text torn lantern -- gathering the night's emptiness Outer text on an ombre black to grey border National Poetry Day 'Wonder' Word & Image Salil Chaturvedi ‎
October 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
inksweatandtears.co.uk
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...

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Image: a worm against a hot pink background surrounded by a navy blue border Text: Wonder Day 7 Helen Anderson Sue Johns
October 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
carcanet.bsky.social
Staff picks for National Poetry Day!🛶

Alan, our Sales and Rights Director, chose Red River Valley by Ian McMillan.

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October 6, 2026 at 4:00 PM
welshbollocks.bsky.social
I am a little collier and gweithio underground
The rhaff will never torri when I go up and down
It's bara when I'm hungry
And cwrw when I'm dry
It's gwely when I'm tired
And nefoedd when I die
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October 6, 2026 at 3:59 PM
inksweatandtears.co.uk
#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
October 6, 2026 at 12:15 PM
alisonlittle.bsky.social
Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free — inspired by Liverpool’s unforgettable 2008 ✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/20...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana
October 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
dchandbells.bsky.social
It's #NationalPoetryDay today so here's Wilfred Wilson Gibson's narrative poem (alongside specially composed music) about Flannan Isle lighthouse mystery when all lighthouse keepers stationed on Scotland’s Flannan Isles disappeared in year 1900
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Flannan Isle - Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ensembles
YouTube video by DCHandbells
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October 6, 2026 at 6:32 AM
carcanet.bsky.social
Staff picks for National Poetry Day!🐚

Zoë, our Marketing and Events Manager, chose Killing Spree by Jorie Graham.

To celebrate #NationalPoetryDay, we are having a 25% flash sale across our entire website! Use the code POETRYWEEK at checkout: www.carcanet.co.uk/
October 5, 2026 at 4:00 PM
alisonlittle.bsky.social
Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free ✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/20...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana
October 5, 2026 at 1:01 PM
suefinch.bsky.social
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 Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 3d
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 @miriamo77@bsky.social.

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#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry
Image: wooden figurines moving worlds, tinted blue, surrounded by a blue border Text: Wonder Day 5 Shanta Acharya Sue Finch Miriam Otto
October 5, 2026 at 9:58 AM
inksweatandtears.co.uk
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 @miriamo77@bsky.social.

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#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Poetry
Image: wooden figurines moving worlds, tinted blue, surrounded by a blue border Text: Wonder Day 5 Shanta Acharya Sue Finch Miriam Otto
October 5, 2026 at 9:50 AM
ninanazir.bsky.social
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 Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 3d
Truth in all its 'beautiful horror'. 'Deliverance' from Nina Nazir for IS&T's weeklong National Poetry Day feature. inksweatandtears.co.uk/wonder-nina-...

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#InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay #Wonder
Part section of word and image consisting of a collage of shredded brightly coloured paper, with the cut out text (see below) superimposed. It's valuable vulnerable work telling the truth in all its beautiful horror Social media text: National Poetry Day 'Wonder' Word & Image Nina Nazir
October 4, 2026 at 9:35 PM
inksweatandtears.co.uk
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
Part section of word and image consisting of a collage of shredded brightly coloured paper, with the cut out text (see below) superimposed. It's valuable vulnerable work telling the truth in all its beautiful horror Social media text: National Poetry Day 'Wonder' Word & Image Nina Nazir
October 4, 2026 at 7:07 PM
hemeronwaters.bsky.social
In honor of a #nationalpoetryday
October 4, 2026 at 6:47 PM
whalesorg.bsky.social
This week we celebrated #NationalPoetryDay (1st October). So, to add to your relaxing Sunday vibes, here are some lovely lines from our resident poet, Matt Harvey all about the true value of whales. Thanks to the amazing people at Hot Poets. Sit back with a tea and dream about whales in the sea👇
Humpback whale beneath the ocean surface
October 4, 2026 at 1:16 PM
inksweatandtears.co.uk
🎶 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
Image: the moon in purple sky surrounded by a dusty pink border Text: Wonder Day 4 Rupert Loydell Nick Cooke Dave Hubble
October 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM
stcatharines.bsky.social
It was #NationalPoetryDay this week so we couldn't resist sharing our Fellow Prof. Richard Dance (1997) reading the opening lines of 'Beowulf', in both Modern & Old English. Catz students at @department-asnc.bsky.social enjoy studying this epic poem >1000 years after it was first written.
October 4, 2026 at 8:30 AM
mornawriter.bsky.social
Latest blogpost #nationalpoetryday

mornawriter.blogspot.com/2026/10/just...
Just Wonderful!
Thursday was celebrated as National Poetry Day, with the theme of 'wonder' this year. It coincided with me attending a local apple fair mark...
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October 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
alisonlittle.bsky.social
Remember when Liverpool was overrun by Lambananas? 🐑🍌
For National Poetry Day 2026 and its theme of Wonder, I’ve written The Year the Lambananas Roamed Free — inspired by Liverpool’s! ✨
👉 alisonlittle.blog/2026/10/02/t...
#NationalPoetryDay #Liverpool #Superlambanana
October 3, 2026 at 4:18 PM
sandymcintosh.bsky.social
National Poetry Day 2026 celebrates the power and emotion of the written and spoken word.

It invites everyone—from seasoned writers to curious beginners—to honor the craft, share stories, and enjoy a poem.

#NationalPoetryDay
October 3, 2026 at 11:46 AM
inksweatandtears.co.uk
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
Image: a magical swirl surrounded by a blue border Text: Wonder Day 3 Math Jones Jean Atkin Kate Noakes
October 3, 2026 at 10:05 AM
gwill2k.bsky.social
To Autumn by William Blake
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To Autumn William Blake 1757 - 1827 O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit Beneath my shady roof; there thou mayst rest, And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe, And all the daughters of the year shall dance! Sing now the lusty song of fruits and flowers. "The narrow bud opens her beauties to The sun, and love runs in her thrilling veins; Blossoms hang round the brows of Morning, and Flourish down the bright cheek of modest Eve, Till clust'ring Summer breaks forth into singing, And feather'd clouds strew flowers round her head. "The spirits of the air live on the smells Of fruit; and Joy, with pinions light, roves round The gardens, or sits singing in the trees." Thus sang the jolly Autumn as he sat; Then rose, girded himself, and o'er the bleak Hills fled from our sight; but left his golden load.
October 2, 2026 at 8:49 PM
guinevereclarkpoet.bsky.social
🩷Thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk - wonderful to have my poem 'Matryoshka' featured as part of National Poetry Day Wonder themed portfolio!
Read here ➡️https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/day-two-of-wonder-for-npd-geraldine-stoneham-guinevere-clark-and-annette-skade/
#nationalpoetryday #poetry #mother
inksweatandtears.co.uk Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 6d
#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
October 2, 2026 at 8:32 PM