🚨 new poem alert!! this one is close to my heart and describes, I think, one of the main reasons why I choose to write at all. so grateful to Ink Sweat & Tears for publishing it <3 (nb: better to view it on a bigger screen - phone screen messes with the line breaks)

Love and hate in equal measure as we present two fine poems from UEA Literature@UEA 2023/2024 Poetry MA Scholars Badriya Abdullah (Birch Family Scholarship) and Dana Collins (IS&T Scholarship). inksweatandtears.co.uk/badriya-abdull…

Dark and intriguing work from Fokkina McDonnell Fokkina McDonnell, today on the website. Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in our bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/fokkina-mcdonn…

Many thanks to Helen Ivory for selecting my prose poem Aposematism / Honest warning signals.

Join us on 5th October at the Black British Book Festival, Barbican Centre, London! Meet stars like Eve, Diane Abbott, and more, plus 150+ Black British authors. Get your £10 tickets now at; barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/… Don’t miss out! 🎟️📚

Bryan Marshall's 'The Lung Men' is textured; you'll want to peel away the layers. Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in our bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/bryan-marshall…

Thrilled to be a part of this. Tickets available here barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2024/…

Underneath sadness, there's a quiet joy. Discover it in 'The Small and Many Forms of Sadness' by Jude Mason. Read the full poem through the link below, or through the link in our bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/jude-mason/

As part of our excellent 'In Praise of...' series, David Pollard / David Pollard reviews 'The Whole Island' (Valley Press) by Simon Maddrell / Simon Maddrell and finds a diamond of a different sort. inksweatandtears.co.uk/david-pollard-…

Thanks so much to Ink Sweat & Tears for publishing David Pollard’s kind, generous and incisive review of my @valleypress pamphlet, ‘The Whole Island’ supported by Culture Vannin — available direct, from the publisher, etc. (link in bio) David Pollard #poetry #manx IoM Arts Council

Hayden Hyams on the website today, with 'The rain is expected to stop in 8 minutes and start again in 29 minutes'. Quiet and tender. Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in our bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/hayden-hyams/

Searing and unexpected. 'Some Hope' by Paul Murgatroyd on the website today. Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in bio: inksweatandtears.co.uk/paul-murgatroy…

Lisa Falshaw's Lisa Falshaw poem 'A mother teaches her Neurodiverse child colours' is desperately hopeful, and deeply empathetic. Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in our bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/lisa-falshaw/

Carole Bromley Carole Bromley gives us unsettling insight into women's experience of the workplace in 'The Last Person on Earth'. Read the full poem at the link below, or through the link in bio. inksweatandtears.co.uk/carole-bromley/

CS Crowe's fascinating prose poem 'Lines' on the website today. Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in our bio: inksweatandtears.co.uk/37837-2/

Jeanette Burton The Writing School invites us to travel with her through grief, and the joy in remembering. Read the full poem at the link below or through the link in our bio: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jeanette-burto…