Latest posts tagged with #FeaturedPoem on Bluesky
Garden and groundskeeper. Title: 'Cyclamen'. Quotes: 'I woke to workers with blades' and 'along the verge, yellow-jacketed'. Poet: Gill Horitz.
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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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.
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.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/elaine-baker...
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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)
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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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)
@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.
inksweatandtears.co.uk/clare-bryden...
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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.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/gail-webb-2/
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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)
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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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)
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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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)
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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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)
Elizabeth Wilson Davies' 'Watermarked' reflects on the legacy of national resistance and protest in response, specifically the violence of forgetting.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/elizabeth-wi...
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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)
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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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)
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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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
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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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)
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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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)
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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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)
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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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)
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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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)
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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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)
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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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)
Paul Stephenson's 'Attraction' describes a menacing pattern of repetition.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-stephen...
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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)
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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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)
@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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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)
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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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)
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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Basket of folded linen. Text overlaying photo reads: never broken a bone and will never. Title reads: Mausoleum. Bottom text reads: Collin Dardis (c)
Colin Dardis' 'Mausoleum' explores the tension between safety and restriction. @purelypoetry.bsky.social
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/colin-dardis/
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Shadow of a window caught on a wall draped with vines. Text overlaying photo reads: the walls lean in, listening for damage. Title reads: The House Keeps Score. Bottom text reads: May Garner (C)
May Garner's 'The House Keeps Score' imagines grief and regret as a physical space one can live within.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/may-garner
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Bowl of dry cereal spilt over a table. Text overlaying photo reads: a hangover along city roads, behind mountains. Title reads: Windless Day. Bottom text reads: Sally Spiers (c)
Sally Spiers' 'Windless Day' captures the abstract concept of stagnancy in concrete and sensorial language.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sally-spiers/
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Silhouette of three birds against a clouded sky. Title reads 'Flock'. Text overlayed on photo reads: A man worries a bus ticket into a thin white curl. Bottom text reads: Tim Brookes (C)
Tim Brookes' 'Flock' captures the texture of time, an ordinary day richly rendered.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/tim-brookes/
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Envelopes sealed with a red heart. Text overlayed on photo reads: You're a character, a Roman numeral, an internet meme. Title reads: Letter to L. Bottom text reads: Kim Waters (C)
Kim Waters' 'Letter to L' is a playful ode which delights in language and its very foundational building blocks.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/kim-waters/
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Mug and laptop on a white duvet. Text over photo reads: in day-old lashes, overslept, this duvet my cocoon. Title reads: Comfort Queens. Bottom text reads: Sylvie Jane Lewis (C)
Sylvie Jane Lewis' 'Comfort Queens' is a love letter to the queer community built through media and made possible through the internet.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sylvie-jane-...
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Evening image of an old town complex, lights giving off a golden glow. Text A Prayer for Rima evening folds around you a linen of mercy Maryam Alsaeid ©
Interwoven with lines from an Arabic Lullaby, Maryam Alsaeid's 'A Prayer for Rima' is a loving ode for peace and wellness.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/maryam-alsae...
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