Ink Sweat & Tears is a UK based webzine which publishes and reviews poetry, prose, prose-poetry, word & image pieces and everything in between. Our tastes are eclectic and magpie-like and we aim to publish something new every day.
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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Lucy Heuschen
It is known: a woman like that
brings evil on board.
Carolyn Oulton
Heat on the window
baking my face like a biscuit.
I move some hair, look over
at moss and narcissi, in a pot –
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Abertawe’ by Andy Breckenridge is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2024. Huge Congratulations!
‘flowing beautiful lines of emotion’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and artworks have been published internationally.
Filmpoems
Moira McPartlin
Magnificence For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer What jewelled gifts are these, spliced and stacked on platters of...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Abertawe’ by Andy Breckenridge is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2024. Huge Congratulations!
‘flowing beautiful lines of emotion’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and artworks have been published internationally.
Filmpoems
Moira McPartlin
Magnificence For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer What jewelled gifts are these, spliced and stacked on platters of...
Previously featured
Lucy Heuschen
It is known: a woman like that
brings evil on board.
Carolyn Oulton
Heat on the window
baking my face like a biscuit.
I move some hair, look over
at moss and narcissi, in a pot –
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Abertawe’ by Andy Breckenridge is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2024. Huge Congratulations!
‘flowing beautiful lines of emotion’
‘When young boys go missing’ by Abu Ibrahim is the Pick of the Month for July 2024. Read and hear it here!
‘The poem speaks truth’
‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ by Robin Houghton is the June 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here.
‘Beautiful interweaving of nature and human concerns’
Reviews
In Praise of… David Pollard on ‘The Whole Island’ by Simon Maddrell
‘There are some diamonds that are mostly black because their unique crystalline structure absorbs most of the light. Change your perspective as you look at them and it seems that different parts flash with different qualities of light shrouded in shadows.
This pamphlet is a necklace made of such jewellery.’
In Praise of… Claire Dyer’s ‘The Adjustments’ by Vic Pickup
‘The poems within speak of multiple losses, grief – historic and new – and yet, the reader emerges from the pages with a fullness, a sense of calm completion – the sum of their own adjustments perhaps?’
In Praise of…: Anna Saunders Reviews ‘Blood Alluvium’ by S. Preston Duncan
A stunning collection with its own unique and redemptive music, written by the writer whose work novelist Tom Robbins described as ‘the feeling of having asked (and received) an autograph from starlight’.