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
Royal Rhodes
Perhaps the friends of Lazarus, who died
and slipped his shroud, on seeing him might swoon
or rush to hear the tales of that beyond
they hoped and feared to face.
Dmitry Blizniuk for World Poetry Day
God in his worn, greasy jeans like a car mechanic
is lighting a new life from an old one.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Which Poem Will You Choose as the February 2025 Pick of the Month?
Oliver Comins
Steph Ellen Feeney
Bob King
Julie Sheridan
Maxine Sibihwana
Ellora Sutton
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo & Romit Berger for World Poetry Day
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves
悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团
Filmpoems
Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Which Poem Will You Choose as the February 2025 Pick of the Month?
Oliver Comins
Steph Ellen Feeney
Bob King
Julie Sheridan
Maxine Sibihwana
Ellora Sutton
Word & Image

Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo & Romit Berger for World Poetry Day
the plane tree entertains the circus of doves
悬铃木款待鸽子的马戏团
Filmpoems

Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
Previously featured
Royal Rhodes
Perhaps the friends of Lazarus, who died
and slipped his shroud, on seeing him might swoon
or rush to hear the tales of that beyond
they hoped and feared to face.
Dmitry Blizniuk for World Poetry Day
God in his worn, greasy jeans like a car mechanic
is lighting a new life from an old one.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Which Poem Will You Choose as the February 2025 Pick of the Month?
Oliver Comins
Steph Ellen Feeney
Bob King
Julie Sheridan
Maxine Sibihwana
Ellora Sutton
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
‘A Town of Shadows’ by Joe Williams is the final Pick of the Month for 2024. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line’
‘Clear structure, directness, chilling emotion’
Reviews
In Praise of: Carolyn Oulton reviews ‘The Horse And The Girl’ and ‘Maiden Mother Crone’ by Madeleine White
‘Both collections speak to the tradition of the quest narrative, as the female speaker draws on nature and spiritual histories to navigate 21st century problems.’
In Praise of: Jean Atkin reviews ‘Janus’ by Catherine Ayres
“There’s a generosity about this collection, laid right alongside the vulnerability that Ayres chooses to share with us.’
In Praise Of…Dennis Tomlinson reviews ‘Window’ by Yuko Minamikawa Adams
This poet has a talent for transforming the familiar world through the power of her imagination and, moreover, doing so in plain, down-to-earth language. Things are personified and persons are thingified, as in the poem ‘Ironing’, which reaches far beyond the ordinary domestic chore of its title.