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Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sairah Ahsan & Kate Birch.
Sarah Boyd's 'Finely balanced' captures the precarity of old age and the unrelenting task of attending to one's health.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sarah-boyd

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January 23, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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Samantha Carr's 'Unexploded Bombs' tackles the intersection of medical anxiety and medical gaslighting. @samc4rr.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/samantha-carr/

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January 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM
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Thank you @inksweatandtears.co.uk & @jessmookherjee.bsky.social for your review of GREY TIME by @julwe1.bsky.social

'Elegy does not erase harm. Webb honours that contradiction.'
'Grey Time does not console. It stays. And that feels like truth.'

Read in full inksweatandtears.co.uk/jessica-mook...
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Samantha Carr's 'Unexploded Bombs' tackles the intersection of medical anxiety and medical gaslighting. @samc4rr.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/samantha-carr/

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January 22, 2026 at 9:33 PM
@jessicamookherjee.bsky.social's review of 'Grey Time' by @Julwe1.bsky.social elegantly takes us through a collection which deftly deals with the emotional complexities of trauma, grief, violence and motherhood while remaining unsentimental

inksweatandtears.co.uk/jessica-mook...

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January 22, 2026 at 9:13 AM
Helen Akers' Window of tolerance' works 'to construct a frame' within which enormous disruptive emotion can be fit and analysed, putting therapeutic language in close conversation with grounded imagery.

inksweatandtears.co.uk/helen-akers/

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January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Our latest word & image feature is three Plant Poems by @herr-morris.bsky.social. Each is a playful, flamboyant interpretation which provokes us to look at common foliage at a slant.

See them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/steph-morris...

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January 21, 2026 at 9:22 AM
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Chuffed that my poem is featured here today! Thank you to Helen Ivory and all at IS&T x
Jenny Robb's 'Strange Brew' evokes a menacing presence within a family embodied through the mysterious character of Anne. @jirobb.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jenny-robb-6/

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January 20, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Jenny Robb's 'Strange Brew' evokes a menacing presence within a family embodied through the mysterious character of Anne. @jirobb.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jenny-robb-6/

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January 20, 2026 at 9:50 AM
'I love the whimsical way this develops like a slowly falling snowflake'

Huge congratulations to @michelleadiaz.bsky.social whose poem 'Love Song for Snow' is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2025. To revisit the poem and for more voters' comments go to inksweatandtears.co.uk/december-202...
January 19, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Diane Webster's 'Revenge' sympathises with squirrels, embodying their hunger and wrath as something predatory.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/diane-webste...

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January 19, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Bill Jones' 'Three Jackdaws' is a wry meditation on ritual as the speaker watches birds.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/bill-jones/

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January 18, 2026 at 11:37 AM
Zumwalt's 'take this' serves justice to workplace politics with a humour which is wry and irreverent.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/zumwalt/

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January 17, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Anya Reeve's seasonal poem 'Walnut' enrobes a pip of liveliness kept within brutal winter imagery.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/anya-reeve/

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January 16, 2026 at 11:29 AM
John Grey's 'Your Town' calls attention to what might be mellow and existential within a jovial scene in a local pub.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/john-grey-4/

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January 15, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Antony Dunn's 'Plainsong' melds the past with future as its speaker wryly considers their death.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/antony-dunn/

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January 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Light is abundant in Lesley Curwen's 'Valentia Light', offering both protection from and disguising the dangers of an anticipated storm. @elcurwen.bsky.social

Watch it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/lesley-curwe...

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January 14, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Alex Scarborough's 'Hiking' considers alternative ways of mapping space, time and our relationships to others. @ascarborough.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/alex-scarbor...

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January 13, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Submissions are open for [email protected] until the 15th only with particular interest in submissions for our Holocaust Memorial Day feature where we hope to platform work which remembers the Holocaust and other genocides.

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January 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Myra Schneider's 'Cloud' uses the titular word to launch us from its technological associations into the age and tradition of the Romantic poets.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/myra-schneid...

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January 12, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Sef's poem provides pause to consider the body and its containment, as it exists in multitudes. @seaandfog.bsky.social

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sef/

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January 11, 2026 at 10:31 AM
It's time to choose the last IS&T Pick of the Month for 2025. Will December's be Toby Cotton, @michelleadiaz.bsky.social, @greeningpoet.bsky.social, Paula R. Hilton, Usha Kishore or @fionalarkin.bsky.social. More at inksweatandtears.co.uk/december-202...

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January 10, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Wayne F. Burke's minimalist poems contrast freedom with containment and limitation, presenting images of youth and potential, and bright, sonorous music.

Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/wayne-f-burke/

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January 10, 2026 at 9:50 AM
Jon Miller's atmospheric 'Moving In' appreciates both the disquieting and comforting realisation that a new home is haunted by its previous inhabitants.

Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jon-miller-4

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January 9, 2026 at 10:10 AM