From microscopic tardigrades to the macroscopic ice age or glacier, Charlotte Holm and Jennifer A McGowan's poems reveal some of the many worlds of Earth. Read them here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/charlotte-ho... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Environment #NewKnowledge

James McDermott's 'Samsara' poem longs for a father in his next incarnation of life. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/james-mcderm... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions

Cath Holland's poem, 'The Jumble Sale', takes the reader into the strange and wonderful allure of bargain finds. @caththewriter.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/cath-holland... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #JumbleSale

As a poetry co-editor for the Morning Star, I want to feature poets who are often marginalised. Except they seem to be marginalising themselves by not sending their work. Send poems for June! I'd be grateful to receive them at: [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-...

Delighted to have my poem 'Index' published by @inksweatandtears.co.uk (a dream come true) My son's little scar on his index finger, from a suction he gave himself by sucking his own finger in the womb, is what inspired the poem. I hope you enjoy it. inksweatandtears.co.uk/cheryl-snell...

Exploring the #ManyWorlds of #Families are the poets Cheryl Snell, Alice Gregario and @plpoetry.bsky.social. The poems express vastly different perspectives and experiences yet also speak to each other when read in sequence. inksweatandtears.co.uk/cheryl-snell... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

The good people at Ink Sweat & Tears indulged my fleeting obsession with Sabrina Carpenter’s House Tour and published the resulting poem.

Are the houses in Tom Blake's 'After Gaston Bachelard and Sabrina Carpenter' a metaphor, analogy or something else? The speaker tells us one thing, but you decide. @tomblake17.bsky.social Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/tom-blake/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Houses

Kate Bonfield's poem 'May long weekend' is a meditation on a house that became stifling to several of the creatures inside it. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/kate-bonfield/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions

'Beautiful imagery and gorgeous melancholy longing' Huge congratulations to Sophie Lankarani, whose poem 'Dear Iran' is the IS&T #PickoftheMonth for April 2026. Revisit the poem and read more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/april-2026-p... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

'Mother Misery' by Precious Ejim explores a mother-daughter relationship, lack of affection and care. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/precious-ejim/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #MotherDaughter

Jackson's poem 'Patterned with cows' begins a conversation with a mother, who has died, through the items that she left behind. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jackson-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Loss #Cooking #ConversationsWithTheDead

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Kath Mckay's poem, 'How to become two-dimensional' explores a process of love, loss, detachment and grief. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/kath-mckay/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Loss #Grief

@suejohns.bsky.social on @zoebrooks.bsky.social's 'Something in Nothing', finds an 'assured storyteller whose work is steeped in the oral tradition' and fairy tales reimagined. Read the review here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sue-johns-re... #InkSweatandTears #Review

Start your day (or end your week?) with this songlike – and sobering – abecedarian by Cindy Botha.

Cindy Botha's poem 'a grief of ghosts' memorialises some of the species no longer with us. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/cindy-botha-6/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Extinction #Grief

'Messages, Signs, Codes' by Jasmine Gibbs is a poem where music is an entry point into a revelry and a kind of cosmic attunement that alters to the speaker's surroundings. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jasmine-gibbs/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Music

'Skin' by Jane Pearn attends to the largest organ of the human body, what it absorbs and holds together. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jane-pearn-3/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Skin #Swimming

Robin Lindsay Wilson's ekphrastic poem 'Miss Betina Wauchope Disappears' explores painting as an act of erasure. The poem is in response to the painting ‘Interior: Orange Blind’ by FCB Cadell. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/robin-lindsa... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Ekphrasis

Ian Hickey's poem doesn't ask for a pause but a complete cessation. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ian-hickey/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions

April has been and gone and we need your vote for IS&T's #PickoftheMonth! Will you choose Tim Dwyer, Susan Elizabeth Hale, Christtie Jay, Karina Jutzi, Sophie Lankarani or @seanstreet.bsky.social ? More details at inksweatandtears.co.uk/april-2026-p... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Vote

We will be announcing the Shortlist for the IS&T #PickoftheMonth in just under an hour's time. In the meantime you can revisit March's winning 'Buried' read by the poet Tamara Salih. inksweatandtears.co.uk/march-2026-p... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Audio

Rose Lennard's 'How to master the air walk dance craze' explores dance as an energy that makes up the universe. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/rose-lennard... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Dance

'Outsider' by @lsheahen.bsky.social explores that uncomfortable feeling of being excluded, being expected to say the right word and falling short. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/laura-sheahen #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Outsider

How do you bridge the distance between yourself and home? Word & Image by Sabine Wilson-Patrick looks like a postcard but where the image and words merge. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sabine-wilso... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #PostcardPoem #Home

The father in Marilyn Ricci's poem 'Short-lived' takes a creative and unusual approach to carrying grief, making something that's often hidden achingly visible. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/marilyn-ricci/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #ChildLoss

The filmpoem 'Outside A Parisian Café' by Panya Banjoko explores what it feels like to be seen as outside the parameters of 'youth'. View it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/panya-banjoko/ #InkSweatandTears #FilmPoem #Submission #Aging

Wendy Clayton's poem 'Everything Changed except our Way of Thinking' ponders connection and timeless relationship questions. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/wendy-clayton/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Relationships

Show us worlds within worlds, hidden or under explored locales, stretch our imaginations, play with scale. (All other themes still welcome.) Email Zakia / @zcarpenterhall.bsky.social: [email protected] More details at inksweatandtears.co.uk/submissions/

Kate Leah Hewett's, 'Web' is a lovely poem that considers the smaller inhabitants of the world and what might aid their living. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/kate-leah-he... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission

Are foreign flowers accepted in ways that people are not? Winifred Mok's poem seems to offer a wildflower's perspective. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/winifred-mok/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #Wildflowers #Belonging

Col Fleetwood's 'Muckle Flugga', takes the reader on a rocky and picturesque journey along the Scottish island. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/col-fleetwood/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #MuckleFlugga

'Morning Beach in Gopalpur', by Amlanjyoti Goswami explores a seaside in Odisha, India and a 'fisherman immersed in morning'. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/amlanjyoti-g... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #Fishermen

Brian Kirk's poem 'Reflex' proceeds kind of like the impromptu involuntary action after which it was named but with the twists and turns of memory. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/brian-kirk-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission

@dawnllsands.bsky.social in 'Prevention Science' resurrects Mary Shelley and explores what impact the present can have on the past. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/dawn-sands-2/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #MaryShelleyFrankenstein

Sipke Shaughnessy's poem 'Morning mis-en-scène' explores the accidental artfulness of everyday life. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sipke-shaugh... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #ASliceOfLife

Ken Evans' poem 'Octopus' questions and also implicates its speaker in the strangeness of this digital and multi-tentacled age. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/ken-evans-3/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #SocialMedia #AI

Sally Denning's poem 'Before It Had a Name' responds to an implicit question, 'How did the addiction start?' inksweatandtears.co.uk/sally-denning #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #Addiction

Thank you so much #inksweatandtears and esp Zakia for publishing my poem! ❤️

The wonderful @inksweatandtears.co.uk have accepted one of my poem to publish in June. Thanks so much @helenivory.bsky.social for accepting it and generally being such a supportive editor.

Mary Mulholland's 'This Poem is a Secret' explores a poem's reluctance to reveal itself and a poet eagerly waiting to receive it. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/mary-mulholl... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission

Have you ever yearned for a slow or a no news day? Then Afolabi Ezra's poem 'The Day Nothing Happened' is for you. It offers a chance to relish in the absence of urgency and loss. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/afolabi-ezra/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #NoNews #SlowNewsDay

'Lot's Wife' by Karina Jutzi is a poem that prods at the edges of gendered expectations, all the while practicing a rebellion of being, witnessing and curiosity. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/karina-jutzi/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #LotsWife

On Earth Day, we have Isabelle Thompson's poem in celebration of attentiveness to the natural world. The poem's takes its title from a quote by Jo Bell, 'Attention, after all is prayer'. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/isabelle-tho... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #EarthDay #Attention

'It captures the silence and stillness of childhood snow, and all it can mask and hide, beautifully' 🎆🎆🎆Tamara Salih's 'Buried' is the IS&T #PickoftheMonth for March 2026. Revisit the poem and see more voters' comments at inksweatandtears.co.uk/march-2026-p... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry

Roger Robinson's 'Pipeline' is in the succinct Japanese form of a tanka and rich in sensory detail from the visual, textural, flavour and sound. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/roger-robins...

Amirah Al Wassif's poem 'The Double' personifies reflection as a conversation that happens between one person and a 'photo negative'- like being. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/amirah-al-wa... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #Reflection

Sophie Lankarani's 'Dear Iran' is a poem of longing for a country that is present within the speaker's life and heritage yet conversely out of reach. Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/sophie-lanka... #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submission #Iran

If two people could have an argument through painting, 'Marseilles Road' by Mark A. Hill is an example of that. The poem explores painting as a conversation and clash of differences. inksweatandtears.co.uk/mark-a-hill/ #InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Painting #PaintingasConversation