Light is abundant in Lesley Curwen's 'Valentia Light', offering both protection from and disguising the dangers of an anticipated storm.
Watch it here: https://t.co/1KTCB9S0Ko
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Andrea Small's 'Night Out' puts into language the inertia of a freeze response experienced by a girl under threat during a night out.
Read it here: https://t.co/2Pu0qlhjzw
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Paula R. Hilton's 'Eating Apple Pie with Louisa May Alcott' is a comedy of desire and memory.
Read it here: https://t.co/N1ji15r5rM
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Rhonda Melanson's 'Holy Ground' meditates on gardening, particularly the more spiritual fruits of labour and earth.
Read it here: https://t.co/eVYTzaoZtx
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Jena Woodhouse's 'The Kelpie' uses myth and memory to make sense of present-day suffering and illness.
Read it here: https://t.co/MHvxoQk3Bw
#ChronicIllness#Poetry#InkSweatandTears
Ibrar Sami's 'Return' explores the theme of resurgence in both its destructive and constructive iterations.
Read it here: https://t.co/LE8qH82iyg
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'Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process'
Huge Congrats to @TadhgCarey whose poem 'Pivotal' is the IS&T #PickoftheMonth for Oct 2025. To revisit the poem & for more voters' comments go to https://t.co/oZFvS4XTXt
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Whatupdoe Detroit!!!
I finally made a Youtube video about my trip to the 313!!! It's premiering soon so hopefully see you in the chat!!! Please.. like and subscribe!!! See you in the chat!
It's my first time really posting on Youtube so I'm nervous 🤣
https://t.co/MwLdAM0Dsi
Hedy Hume's 'Manchester Piccadilly -> Wolverhampton' laments over a moment of alienation on public transport.
Read it here: https://t.co/cIxnG0XJe0
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This is your annual reminder that the only one who decides when you're done submitting to a magazine is YOU 🫵
Never give up. Never surrender.
Submit to these lit mags here: https://t.co/1T2C6PBhAm...
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This Saturday, I'll be leading an online poetry writing workshop, where we'll read together and write together. This is through Scotland's Push the Boat Out Festival. 9am PT/12pm ET. https://t.co/BxW2xwNkTb
Matthew F. Amati's 'Hands Said To Head' is a hilarious personification of different body parts as they try to attribute blame to each other.
Read it here: https://t.co/SpsBc9xplp
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Meg Pokrass's 'Cat Swarm' is a meditation on the way we regard the ageing population, rife with playful feline imagery.
Read it here: https://t.co/qDg4Do7Df7
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This hurts. 'A Cry' from Mariam Saidan, a response to female singing as a ‘forbidden act' (Article 638 of the Islamic Penal Code).
Read it here: https://t.co/yrUIVK4lts
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