Hannah Ward's 'Under The Plum Tree' uses language economically while evoking the disorientation of waking from a dream. Read it here: https://t.co/WdqKKwnf4G #InkSweatAndTears #WilliamCarlosWilliams #FruitPoetry

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 #InkSweatandTears #FeaturedPoem #BirdPoem

Submissions close tomorrow. Poetry publishers (in particular) don't miss out. Pamphlets, anthologies, self published all welcome!

Usha Kishore's 'Chant' is a lyrical interrogation of patriarchal threads interwoven in tradition. @kilipaatu Read it here: https://t.co/cVDScs36PO #FeaturedPoetry #InkSweatAndTears #Poem

Jane Frank's 'Wake' uses poetry to give shape to the ineffable absence left in the wake of loss. @jane_e_frank Read it here: https://t.co/qPCm9h5Tzb #InkSweatAndTears #Grief #FeaturedPoem

Clara Howell's 'The Basement' holds us on the moment of anticipation. Read it here: https://t.co/Wwk0D0MP4C #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #FruitPoem

As we head towards the glitter and glitz, let's take one last look back at November. Will you choose Mariam Saidan, Taḋg Paul / @tigger04, Antony Owen, Andy Humphrey, Tamara Evans or Mallika Bhaumik as your #PickoftheMonth? #InkSweatandTears #FeaturedPoetry

Luigi Coppola's 'Prometheus Burns Down The Last Bar Of The Pub Crawl' describes a night of camaraderie spent with the Titan who brought mankind flame. @MrLuigiCoppola Read it here: https://t.co/8Cjx4k3GVk #InkSweatAndTears #GreekMythology #FeaturedPoem

Jon Wesick's 'A Fistful of Cake' is a playful reimagining of the Western, which preserves the genre's melodrama. Read it here: https://t.co/DK2HSYnda5 #InkSweatAndTears #FeaturedPoem #Cowboys

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 #InkSweatAndTears #Poetry #LouisaMayAlcott

In Lee Campbell's 'ONE DAY', hope builds and builds, embodied by pistachios, for future happiness. @leejjcampbell Watch it here: https://t.co/qMFgXrQKUR #FilmPoem #InkSweatAndTears

Alice Huntley's 'The tenderness of beans' is an intimate and sensual reflection on shelling beans from a pod, which evokes a tenderness usually reserved for infants. Read it here: https://t.co/Z9ZMQrq5JZ #InkSweatandTears #PoemOfTheDay #Gardening

Rhonda Melanson's 'Holy Ground' meditates on gardening, particularly the more spiritual fruits of labour and earth. Read it here: https://t.co/eVYTzaoZtx #InkSweatandTears #Gardening #NatureWriting

Clive Donovan's 'Three Winds' explores space and the emotive, even transformative, force of nature. Read it here: https://t.co/I6nsYfaEpP #FeaturedPoem #InkSweatandTears #NaturePoetry

Gary Akroyde's 'Cracks in the Concrete' looks at urban scenery with the intent of finding beauty in the mundane and dirty. Read it here: https://t.co/M06xv72bTd #InkSweatandTears #UrbanNature #Poetry

Revisiting 'Reconnaître', exquisite Word & Image from Helen Pletts and Romit Berger originally published on IS&T in November 2017, and this time accompanied by Ma Yongbo's fine translation. https://t.co/W3QENVMQwc #InkSweatandTears #WordandImage #Translation

Borrowing its title from the PhD of Brian May, Nathan Curnow's 'A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud' marries the wonder and vertigo of scientific discovery with that of music making. https://t.co/YvWcbrrt9n #InkSweatandTears #SciencePoetry #BrianMayQueen

Delighted to have an audio of my poem available here on @InkSweatTears

Mic drop! Heading into December, we now look back at our winning September and October Picks of the Month. You can now hear @ClaraLaeila Laudette read 'The purpose' at https://t.co/RK8deF9qla and we've a fine recording of @TadhgCarey's 'Pivotal' here https://t.co/oZFvS4XTXt

So chuffed to have Midnight Swingball out with @InkSweatTears 🤩