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On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, we bring you Helen Boden, Sarah L Dixon and Penny Ayers

by Helen Ivory | Jan 1, 2021 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      Empties First of Jan, affluent suburb. Stockbridge, but it could be anywhere across the island, in Ely, Richmond, Beauly. In place of regretting they put their empties out, arranged by colour, size, acoustic property. Scores of bottles, neatened...

On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, we bring you Gareth Writer-Davies, Josie Moon, Sue Finch and Sam Garvan

by Helen Ivory | Dec 31, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      Twelfth Night the weather through the draped window dreich the fire spits and greetings cards make a merry flame as I the audient listen to the sermon of the grate that a living room is empty unless you let in a little light     Gareth...

On the Tenth Day of Christmas, we bring you Antony Owen, Mandy Macdonald and Ramona Herdman

by Helen Ivory | Dec 30, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas in the wasteland For Prof R Klein Bird foot snow arrows east Sun is oblong yolk spilt over elms I see Hiroshima setting and all is silent now. I see you in snow drift apparitions Bride not to be scattered to five winds I feel the chilblain frost and think of...

On the Ninth Day of Christmas, we bring you Josephine Corcoran, Nicholas McGaughey and Jack Houston

by Helen Ivory | Dec 29, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

        Parenting Book I wrote it down when they woke me at 3am to tell me they didn’t like ham anymore, only jam and cheese. How on the toilet is the best place to sing. I kept a notebook for years: the sore throat bad as three arrows sticking...

On the Eighth Day of Christmas, we bring you Andrea Holland, Sue Burge and Angela Topping

by Helen Ivory | Dec 28, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      Domain The fork garden is planted by hallmark, by taxonomic value from the tines down. Frost plates the handle, silver lip at the edge of soil, dug out in winter, dug out of winter, bringing up root and louse. If dirt bound and iced in the fork...

On the Seventh Day of Christmas, we bring you ML Eyres, Anna Blasiak and Finola Scott

by Helen Ivory | Dec 27, 2020 | Featured, Poetry, Twelve Days of Christmas

      Christmas Ritual, 1. After lunch she whispers to the carved mahogany table legs feels around for the mouse cut into the back of the armchair where her grandmother reads paperback mysteries. She names that mouse Moses. Then she slides away from the...
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We have a new Word&Image piece up now! This one is an unsettling poem by Dave Hubble (@dshubble). Read 'Untitled (Bible cut-up)' here https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/untitled-bible-cut-up-by-dave-hubble/

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More recently, Jay Bernard's 'Surge' poems give further testimony to the suffering and loss. Please listen to LKJ's poem today and also remember the bereaved, still waiting for justice.

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Forty years ago today, we remember the New Cross fire happened in Deptford, south London. It resulted in the deaths of thirteen young black people, with twenty-seven others seriously injured. To date, no charges have been made.

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what if we mixed
the smoke of my incense sticks
& the smoke of your rolled-up happiness
in a room only suitable for two? 🕯️

A series of ‘what-ifs’ from Antonela Pallini-Zemin (@PalliniZemin) in 'Mix & Match' https://inksweatandtears.co.uk/antonela-pallini-zemin/

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i had a poem picked up by the amazing ink sweat and tears which you can read online for FREE. it's about silica gel and love and other such poisons x https://twitter.com/InkSweatTears/status/1350755012847271936

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