The Layman, Allan Horing
Robert Oster x Dino writes - Gilded Jade
Nolty A5
Kaweco Ice Sport <1.1> Yellow

I couldn't find anything about Allan Horing at all, but I saw this poem shared by tomsnarsky on insta last week.

#poetry #allanhoring #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia #30inks30days

My new Yueben Creative M6/A7 organiser, and Keyno fountain pen

Islands, Muriel Rukeyser
Dominant Industry (DI) - Daydream
DI Keyno Stay.tionery no.14 <F> Cherishment

Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) was an American poet, essayist, biographer, novelist, screenwriter, and political activist.

#poetry #murielrukeyser #americanliterature #fountainpensandink

The Tell, William Bronk
kobe ink- Mugunhwa Pink Purple
B7 natural
Kaweco x Akkerman AL sport <M> Akkerman Orange

A little poem of gratitude following a lovely parcel from a friend.

#Williambronk #americanliterature #poetry #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia

A Skeletal Dream, Kushal Poddar ( @kushalpoddar-poet.bsky.social )
Van Dieman's Ink - Beetroot Relish
Nolty A5
Vintage Pelikan <rolled nib>

I love Kushal's work. One of the few poets I'm actively following and engaging with on socials.

#poetry #kushalpoddar #indianliterature #fountainpensansink

Beside the Lake, Claire Orchard
Diamine - Nightfall
CRENA white olive
Monteverde MPV <omniflex> clear

This poem feels a bit haunted to me. Not in a scary way, but more a prickling of the senses/sharpened awareness.

#poetry #newzealandliterature #aotearoaliterature #30inks30days

Wake Up, Duoduo
Wearingeul Dracula
Midori Cream
Twsbi Go <F> Sapphire

Duo Duo (Li Shizheng, 1951- ) is a "Misty Poet" - 20th-century Chinese poets who reacted against the restrictions on art during the Cultural Revolution.

#poetry #duoduo #chineseliterature #fountainpensandink #30inks30days

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

It is the wound in Time. The century’s tides, chanting their bitter psalms, cannot heal it. Not the war to end all wars; death’s birthing place; the earth nursing its ticking metal eggs, hatching new carnage. But how could you know, brave as belief as you boarded the boats, singing? The end of God in the poisonous, shrapnelled air. Poetry gargling its own blood. We sense it was love you gave your world for; the town squares silent, awaiting their cenotaphs. What happened next? War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore; for we learn nothing from your endless sacrifice. Your faces drowning in the pages of the sea. Carol Ann Duffy, ‘The Wound in Time’ (2018)

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War.
History might as well be water, chastising this shore.

-Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War.
#everynightapoem

Heat Map, Richard Siken
Journalize- Evil Queen
Leuchtturm 80gsm
twsbi eco <magpie> heat

I'm never sure with poems like this if the line breaks should be exactly where they are, or if the intent is to maintain the visual appearance as a solid block of text.

#poetry #richardsiken #fountainpensandink

Extra photos showing the ink even manages to halo on absorbent paper like leuchtturm, and maintains its clarity of colours in partial lighting.

Mrs Winter's Jump, Jenny Bornholdt
Kitty Inkpot (Kitty Island) - Drifting Clouds and Dream Shadows
CRENA white olive

This poem refers to a piece composed by John Dowland (1563 - 1626ish)

"a short but cheerful lute piece meant to accompany a dance"

#poetry #jennybornholdt #fountainpensandink

The ink swatches are accurate, but the writing is a bit dark as its been in the pen a few weeks.

When the sun shines more years than fear, Janet Frame
Van Diemans - Moon Jellyfish
CRENA spark
Opus88 x Paper Mouse mini <F>

Janet Frame (1924-2004) may be familiar from "An Angel At My Table", a 1990 film of her life.

#poetry #janetframe #newzealandliterature #fountainpensandinks

A full page ink swatch of Dissipate the Mist from Kitty Inkpot, a bright turquoise/teal blue.

Day one of #30inks30days and I’m doing a full month of Kitty Inkpot inks for April. Kicking off with my favourite from their first season collection, Dissipate the Mist is a very pretty teal/turquoise blue with an unusual texture.

#fountainpens #inkswatches

Tuesday

The Sower, Victor Hugo
Wearingeul The Little Mermaid
CRENA Spark
Conklin misto <omniflex> green

Just a quick one as the sun was setting. I'll show this ink again in good light.

My friend sent this book "Rise Like Lions" edited by Ben Okri.

#poem #victorhugo #frenchliterature #fountainpensandink

I loved this one, it reminded me whole I devoured Stephen King books as a kid

Macbeth and the Witches by Iain Crichton Smith When the sun was white and wintry and drained of energy Macbeth met the witches under the rim of the sky. Why did you confirm my evil, he said. And the witches who were lighting thorns in the cold winter said, There is a play that one plays when the summer is over and you happened to be one of the cards in our hand, a deformed king with a coat too large for him and a crown that sizzled in the white wintry sky. These things are after all not important except to those who suffer, who are not important. Feeling belongs to the spring and the ignorance of lovers. Here in this wood it is a question of passing the time, and the abstract intellect constructs dramas with a queen and a pawn and the immortal joker who faces two ways at the frosty January gates. Let be, let be, it was quite a nice structure. And truth after all can be played with under the sun which is fading slowly towards a renaissance of leaves. Come, join us, join us, at the unimportant edge of things wearing your coat of blood with the hole in the breast. This is the west. The east has innocent wings.

When the sun was white and wintry and drained of energy
Macbeth met the witches under the rim of the sky…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “Macbeth and the Witches”
in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2021
#BookWormSat #poem #poetry #Shakespeare
www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017094...

Higher Purchase, Rita Ann Higgins
Kyo Iro - Soft snow of O'Hara
b6 52gsm TR
Montblanc Starwalker <M>

The title "Higher Purchase" reads like a child misunderstanding the term "hire purchase"

#poetry #ritaannhiggins #irishliterature #fountainpensandink #fountainpensaustralia

A poem for mothers and children and war by Mona Arshi from her Chatto collection Mouth.

I am panting, Anna Swir
Translator Czeslaw Milosz
Diamine - Glacier
Leuchtturm a5 80gsm
Twsbi Classic <B> mint

Why hold back for a tomorrow that might not come when today is here

Anna Swir (aka Świrszczyńska) was a Polish poet (1909 -1984)

#poetry #polishliterature #fountainpensandink
#annaswirf

A lil write up I did on instagram, but charecter limit here is much too short for.

The Photographer Francis Bacon and Sylvia Plath Stalk Big Game In Equatorial Africa, Judy Johnson
The Wet Pen No. 12 LE
B6 52gsm TR

The juxtaposition of Francis Bacon "the photographer" (a famous painter) and Sylvia Plath with her "bee box"

#poetry #judyjohnson #fountainpensandink

Ooh, like literally the birth itself? That fits well too! I was picturing more a swaddled baby