@rachaelclyne.bsky.social you are on the longlist. 🎊🎊🎊🎊
Jeff Skinner's poem 'Hamlet in the Scanner' imagines the character's thoughts and restlessness while he's literally having his head examined.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/jeff-skinner...
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Hamlet #Examination
In 'Sabbatical' by Dylan Foster, the universe is conspiring to force the speaker into rest and stillness.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/dylan-foster/
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Rest #Stillness
Katherine Duffy's poem thinks of the 'Wake' as a record of travel and memories that dissipates.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/katherine-du...
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Travel
What can poor mental health feel like? The speaker in Chalice Am Bergris' poem 'The Insanity Ensemble' first explores what it is not, before arriving at what it is in this experience.
Read it here:
inksweatandtears.co.uk/chalice-am-b...
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #MentalHealth
The speaker in Audrey Cotterell's 'A November anniversary' lights a candle of remembrance and hints at some of the challenges in getting there.
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/audrey-cotte...
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Candle #Remembrance
On Father's Day, we have 'The Last Key', a prose piece by Joseph Marcel Ikhenoba. This explores a kind of inheritance that is easily overlooked and what it literally and figuratively opens up.
inksweatandtears.co.uk/joseph-marce...
#InkSweatandTears #Prose #Submissions #Keys #FathersDay
Sairah Ahsan reviews 'Unsafe' by @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social and finds in it a thoughtful boundlessness where the 'natural world exists in opposition to artificially imposed borders'.
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
inksweatandtears.co.uk/sairah-ashan...
#InkSweatandTears #Unsafe #Review
You can revisit @rachaelclyne.bsky.social's 'Homeland' here. inksweatandtears.co.uk/rachael-clyn...
High-Visibility by Piers Haben considers which is worse: childhood fears after losing loved ones or adult fears?
Read it here: inksweatandtears.co.uk/piers-haben/
#InkSweatandTears #Poetry #Submissions #Fear #Loss
Inspired by the encouragement of this year’s fantastic judging panel - Sarah Moss, Yomi Ṣode, Romalyn Ante, WN Herbert, & Michael Mullen - we’re delighted to be releasing our longlists for the very first time ahead of shortlist announcements in mid-July. Congratulations to all the longlisted poets!
