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Poetry School MA ‘25 Obsidian Fellow, Watering Hole Fellow Griots Well Alumni Recent work in: Prairie Schooner, Magma, Shō Chapbook - in progress

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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#TheDeeperRead 38 features "When You Brother Dies You Want" by @cloudscholar.bsky.social from his @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social pamphlet Cathedral, twinned with "Endgame XX" from my Red Squirrel Press collection Crippled. suzannafitzpatrick.substack.com/p/the-deeper...
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Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
There are still a few tickets left for our workshop #conversingwiththeghazal on Tuesday 29th September 6-8 at the Club for Acts & Actors! Participants are invited to join the book launch for #Empirical afterwards. Booking link here: www.tickettailor.com/events/sindh... #UKPoets #PoetrySky
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Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Cathedral by Elontra Hall takes the basketball court as a site of devotion, where sweat, craft, and repetition become forms of prayer. www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 14/01/2026
Answer today’s trivia question from Bonnie Tsui’s article about how muscles carry “memories” of strengthening and weakening. Check your response and sign up for Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day: theatln.tc/GveM6jcp
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm being subtle on the bus
My hand holding a copy of Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. I am next to a bus window, you can tell it's slightly chilly outside lol
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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Excellent night for the launch of @blackirispoetry issue 5. Every reading was an absolute banger, including Glyn Maxwell and the @poetryschool.bsky.social MA guest readers. Huge thanks to Lauren Thomas and Sarah Gibbons for editing, organising and MCing. www.blackirispoetry.com/issue-5
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 31/10/2025
Elontra @cloudscholar.bsky.social we appreciate so much your four months with us – your superb editing and curation of submissions, your compelling and personal social media posts, and the way you think outside of the box (or hoop!) An absolute privilege. #InkSweatandTears #EditingInternships
Close up image of a basketball against a black background.

Ink Sweat & Tears interns logo lower left.

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ELONTRA (upper right)

Thank you! (in italics and with a small heart)
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 01/11/2025
Tamara Evans' poem, 'Return,' is filled with imagery and memory, focusing on the fine details that a person might rely on to help them find their way back. @cadicarterbrown.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/tamara-evans/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission
Title: Return

Author: Tamara Evans

Excerpt: Travel West. Submerge yourself/
in the M4's homeward drift.

Description: Two swallows fly over a green field.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 21/10/2025
In 'Art Exhibit', Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal's associations and metaphors push and pull much like the crashing and wombing of the ocean. Full of surrealism and sound, it's a great wave to ride. @cuatemochi.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/luis-cuauhte... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry
Background image: crashing waves

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Art Exhibit

I hear the roar of
the ocean. I hear
a series of shrieks
and long screams.

Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 17/10/2025
Antonia Kearton's poem, 'Elements', doubles as both a meditation on elements and alchemy and an exploration of human inquiry and desire. @antoniakearton.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/antonia-kear... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission
Title: Elements

Author: Antonia Kearton

Excerpt: On my son's desk lies/the periodic table of the elements./ I look. Amongst the arcane names/ I recognise, easy as breathing./
carbon, oxygen, gold, beloved of kings.

Description: A number of graduated cylinders and beakers and phials set across a glass countertop.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 17/10/2025
In Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad's word & image poem, 'A zuihitsu of strings', there is music, memory, pain and healing all at once. It is a beautiful piece of work full of strong imagery and musicality. @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social inksweatandtears.co.uk/40824-2/ #InkSweatandTears #WordandImage
Title: A zuihitsu of strings

Author: Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad

Excerpt: A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights-a vision of serenity.

Description: A harp stands alone on a stage with a stool and music stand.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 12/10/2025
Welcome to pre-season! October is a special month as it not only - sadly - marks Elontra Hall / @cloudscholar.bsky.social 's last month with IS&T but also the start of basketball season and we are looking for poems, etc, on this beautiful game! More details at inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/
Title: Passing the Torch

Author: Elontra Hall

Excerpt: At one time or other, I have studied: Shaq's jump-hook, Iverson's crossover,
Garnett's snarl, Kobe's pull-up & footwork.

Description: A basketball hovers just above the mouth of a basketball rim in a crowded arena.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 11/10/2025
Today, @sarahleavesley.bsky.social explores the violence perpetuated on women by society, sometimes done in the name of protection. Moving and brutal, the poem highlights how thin the line between thought and reality. inksweatandtears.co.uk/sarah-james-le… #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions
Title: The art of cutting and stitching

Author: Sarah James/Leavesley

Excerpt: My mother's knife made the first cuts -/she removed my fertile light bullbs,/ then stuffed my womb with shredded tissues.

Description: A striped tropical fish swims with fins extended, in blue water against a speckled background.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 07/10/2025
Day six of Ink Sweat & Tears' celebration of National Poetry Day: Play! Today's poets - Rachel Burns, Catherine Sweeney, MD Bier - all take a look at childhood and play through a nostalgic lens. inksweatandtears.co.uk/md-bier/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #NationalPoetryDay
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 08/10/2025
Day seven of our celebration of National Poetry Day and its theme of Play, and the focus shifts again. Lee Fraser, Charlotte Dormandy and Suzanna Fitzpatrick look to children and their awe, wonder and imagination. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat... #InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay
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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Thanks @cloudscholar.bsky.social for selecting this for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play'. Also up today is my @poetryschool.bsky.social MA colleague Charlotte Dormandy, will share her poem shortly. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...
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Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Fellow @poetryschool.bsky.social MA student Charlotte Dormandy for @inksweatandtears.co.uk on the @poetrysociety.org.uk #nationalpoetryday theme of 'Play', selected by @cloudscholar.bsky.social. The best short poems Every nook in this opens into big questions. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat...
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 06/10/2025
Welcome to day five of National Poetry Day at Ink Sweat & Tears! We hope that you enjoy today’s poets - Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Ruth Aylett, Brian Comber - and their examination of imaginary/creative Play: inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat... #InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 04/10/2025
Day three of our National Poetry Day celebration has arrived, and with it three new poets - David A. Lee, Seán Street, Oenone Thomas - with great poems! Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #NationalPoetryDay
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 05/10/2025
Day four of our National Poetry Day celebration! Again, today's poets - Wendy Klein, Robin Houghton, Judith Shaw, Jennifer A McGowan - all have wonderful takes on the theme of Play. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat... #InkSweatandTears #Submissions #NationalPoetryDay
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 03/10/2025
Welcome to day two of our celebration of National Poetry Day! @poetrydayuk.bsky.social Today, we have three new poets - Gayathiri Kamalakanthan, Paul Stephenson, Jem Henderson - all exploring: Play. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat... #InkSweatandTears #NationalPoetryDay
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 02/10/2025
Welcome to National Poetry Day! Today we have four poets - Elena Brake, Eleanor Holmes, John Mole, Karen Downs-Barton - with different takes on this year's theme: Play. inksweatandtears.co.uk/play-for-nat... #InkSweatandTears #NationaPoetryDay
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 26/09/2025
In 'weeks after being stabbed', Jacob McKibbin explores themes of violence, pride, connection and the price of masculine bravado. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jacob-mckibb... or via the link in bio to our homepage. #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission
Image of ambulance racing down street at night.

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weeks after being stabbed

my brother saw his attacker 
at a petrol station

Jacob McKibbin copyright
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 28/09/2025
In his prose poem, 'My Mother's Hands', David Waters explores a plethora of themes through the speaker's relationship with their mother. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/david-waters... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 01/10/2025
In 'Glimmers', Jade Wright's speaker tracks moments of beauty and reconsiders the way that they measure what makes life worth living. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jade-wright/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 30/09/2025
In Ruth Lexton's 'Watching January 2021', the speaker ponders the moon in all of its power and beauty and the impact that it has on all of us. By the end though, our familiar satellite finds itself in a very novel situation. inksweatandtears.co.uk/ruth-lexton-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry
Image of a full moon over urban rooftops

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Watching, January 2021

The new year slouches forward, unlovable,
barely acknowledged but for tired, gritty eyes
and a muffled scream into the kitchen towel.

Ruth Lexton copyright
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 29/09/2025
In 'Dehydration', Claire Booker's speaker wonders at the efficiency and efficacy of the medical practitioner assisting them. @clairebooker.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/claire-booker/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Title: Dehydration

Author: Caire Booker

Excerpt: Never has there been so much interest/ in the humble tongue. It peek-a-boos from my/mouth like the little man in a weather clock.

Description: A doctor or nurse tends to a patient who is lying on a bed.
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 27/09/2025
Fran Hawthorne's 'Gold Medal is everything but predictable. Exploring themes of relationships, recognition and visibility, you'll never see the end coming. @hawthornewriter.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/fran-hawthor... #InkSweatandTears #FlashFiction #Submission
Title: Gold Medal

Author: Fran Hawthorne

Excerpt: It was only my second speech and debate tournament in high school, and I was coming home with a gold medal in Dramatic Interpretation and a silver in Extemp.

Description: A small cloud of multi-coloured confetti hangs in the air.
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Fran Hawthorne @hawthornewriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Thank you to Ink Sweat & Tears! This is my 1st-ever piece of Creative Nonfiction. (I usually write novels & used to write standard nonfiction)
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 24/09/2025
In 'Child's Innocence in Gaza', Syed Anas S looks at the Gazan landscape through the eyes of a child on the ground. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/syed-anas-s/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of an explosion against a black background.

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Child’s Innocence in Gaza

We are the ones
who see big crackers
burst every day—

Syed Anas S©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 25/09/2025
Janet Hatherly's poem, 'The night before their wedding, Dad tells Mum two things', explores relationships, trust, revelations and discovery. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/hatherly-2/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of a couple sitting slightly apart both holding their heads in their hands 

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The night before their wedding, Dad tells Mum two things

He's ten years older than he'd said, which makes him twenty-eight years older, not eighteen.

Janet Hatherly copyright
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 23/09/2025
In Dharmavadana's 'Tinkerbell on Queensway', the speaker provides us with an update on a familiar childhood presence. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/dharmavadana/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Tiny pink flower peeping up through crack in pavement.

Tinkerbell on Queensway

She barely glances at you when you chink
your spare coins in her upturned cap, but still
spreads a spell among the pavement footfalls,

Dharmavadana©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 22/09/2025
Marking the beginning of Autumn, Tim Dwyer's 'Shedding' depicts one of the more noticeable markers of the return of the season. @Timtjdwyer Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/tim-dwyer-ma.... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #AutumnEquinox
Close up of chestnut tree branch with conkers

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Shedding

It begins high up
the chestnut tree

Tim Dwyer©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 21/09/2025
Gopal Lahiri's Speaker in 'Triplet' moves from light into darkness, and also seemingly towards a more sombre end of a relationship. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/gopal-lahiri... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image: Purple flowers with green leaves and blurred background of Inthanin flower, Queen's flower Queen's crape myrtle, Pride of India, Jarul, Pyinma/ Lagerstroemia

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Triplet

From this far-side apartment
you watch jarul leaves darkening with the seasons

Gopal Lahiri
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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 20/09/2025
I’ve been getting back into reading traditional books by picking up a book of poetry every morning and night. This one is a must-have for #PoetryPeople and #BlackSky and anyone who loves truth and beauty.
This is the honey by Kwame Alexander
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 20/09/2025
Adam Kelly's 'Drumbledrane', is an image rich and sincere ode to some unsung heroes of the natural world. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-kelly/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image: A large hairy bumblebee (a drumbledrane?) on a pink flower

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Drumbledrane

Determined, you smash against the window
I have to admire you in your striped suit

Adam Kelly©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 19/09/2025
In Sandra Noel's 'The Sea Happens to Me Today', we are taken to the sea for balance and to 'reassemble', and come away with more. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sandra-noel-2/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of hard rain upon a dark sea with darkening clouds.

The sea happens to me today

not because I’m the woman in the bakers
brusque turned rude
or the peaches              still hard in the bowl

Sandra Noel©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 17/09/2025
In Miriam Swales' 'Dinosaur Footprints', the speaker reflects on memory and how positive remembrances can be used to help a person to get through challenging times. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/miriam-swales/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission
Image of the Tennyson Monument, a needle like cross, on the Isle of Wight from afar. The landscape is bare with only a partial view of a single tree to the right.

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Dinosaur Footprints

I’m waiting for news I don’t want to talk about
and scrolling through old photos to escape.
After some swipes, I see you walking away.

Miriam Swales©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 18/09/2025
In Grace Lynn's 'My Little LeBron', the speaker explores relationships, disability, and the innocence of childhood, with a sprinkling of basketball. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/grace-lynn/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of two hands, adult holding that of a child by their forefinger.

Text:

My Little LeBron

Sunlight saunters in long, thin wires through the fallow field
of my bedroom. You approach, a migrating heron
in a runny yolk collar and suntanned shorts, a white-light emissary
of hope. 

Grace Lynn©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 18/09/2025
Warm and witty, this has 'Byte'. See the rest of Helen Percival's filmpoem up on the site now. inksweatandtears.co.uk/helen-perciv... #InkSweatandTears #Submissions #Filmpoem
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 31/08/2025
In 'The Day We Got the News', Cath Holland / @caththewriter.bsky.social tracks a couple after receiving important news. Touching on themes of loss, grief, and relationships, this flash piece has some real fire. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/cath-holland/ #InkSweatandTears #Flash #Submission
Close up image of a couple holding hands.

Text:

The Day We Got the News

Let’s say we have that afternoon again. Itchy for autumn. Me in pale orange lipstick and you your best tweed with leather buttons, facts mouthed at us in a room with no room to move. 

Cath Holland©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 08/09/2025
In 'The Purpose', Clara-Læïla Laudette's speaker reveals a number of surprises and in so doing, takes us through a range of emotions. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/clara-laeila/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of a couple seated together in a restaurant.

The Purpose

I’m six days late
and this is known as a
delinquent period.


Clara-Læïla Laudette©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 10/09/2025
In Paul Goodman's 'Stanage', things reveal themselves more clearly as they progress, but the tension mounts until the end. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-goodman/ #InkSweatandTears #Flash #Submission
Image of a mountain climber going up a vertical rock face. Sunrise and forest in the distance.

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Stanage

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages. 

Paul Goodman©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 11/09/2025
In 'An Eight Year Old's May Altar', John Coburn's speaker goes on a journey through childhood faith, devotion and fracture. @johncoburn.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/john-coburn/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 13/09/2025
In Sue Spiers' 'Compline', the speaker explores the beauty, spiritual nature and rituals of nature itself. @spiropoetry.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sue-spiers-5/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of an owl in a tree at daybreak.

Text:

Compline

A woodpigeon calls
his five-note matins.

Sue Spiers©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 14/09/2025
In 'Awaiting Update', Adam Horovitz's speaker narrates a surreal rail experience. Exploring loss, relationships and nature, the poem doesn't take long to get moving. @adamhorovitz.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/adam-horovit... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of a train on grubby city tracks

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Awaiting Update

We cannot update you yet, other than to say we are caught
in a doldrums between stations and that your father can wait
as he has been waiting these past two years

Adam Horovitz©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 15/09/2025
In 'What Was Lost', Angela France uses the seemingly mundane to carry us with her speaker on a journey through memory and the senses. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/angela-franc... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of a glove and wallet abandoned or lost on a track in the woods

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What was Lost

Perhaps some small creature fallen
from where it should be. I am unsure
whether I saw it move.

Angela France©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 16/09/2025
Chris Hardy's 'Waking Up', follows a speaker and their partner as they travel together and share experiences, before waking up and throwing those experiences into doubt. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/chris-hardy/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of harbour ferry with urban skyline

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Waking Up

The night before we left we smoked opium
for the first time and didn’t sleep.

Chris Hardy©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 12/09/2025
In Alison Jones's 'Redwood', the speaker provides a unique vantage point in examining the trees and their lives. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/alison-jones... #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
Image of redwoods reaching to the sky with the sun poking through the leaves.

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Redwood

Distance from the ground has become
a way of reminding myself,
how the earth turns her swaying tilt

Alison Jones©
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Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk · 09/09/2025
In Joe Wright's poem, 'Sir Godfric gets canonised', Sir Godfric himself shares his thoughts on canonization, and the modern world. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/joe-wright/ #InkSweatandTears #PoetryCommunity #Submission
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