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.
We try to keep waiting-time short, but because of increased submissions, the current waiting time between submission and publication is around twelve weeks.
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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Mick Gidley
Home Front For days after the children leave for their homes in the South we discover unexcavated battlefields, nonsensical as Towton. Small formations of infantrymen guard the lower book-case shelves, lone snipers lurk behind the curtains, and...
Alison Cohen
Roses The postman was my friend, rang the bell, wouldn’t leave until he’d reached me, handed me broken stems of roses — thorny with their heads at crooked angles, buds that tried but only turned to rusty paper. They’d found you by the postbox...
Recent Prose
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News
A Poem from Fahad Al-Amoudi, IS&T’s Next Editing Intern
6am in Bole airport (after eight years) The inevitability of currency changing hands; multiples of six just...
Word & Image
Sepia Progressions of Form by Allison Palmer
Sepia Progressions of Form More than a few things had withered and died in the sunlight of the patio. At first...
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Isolation by Richard C. Bower
Isolation by Richard C. Bower Settle me With a restive hand of congregation One that makes me sit back and think again...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

A Poem from Fahad Al-Amoudi, IS&T’s Next Editing Intern
6am in Bole airport (after eight years) The inevitability of currency changing hands; multiples of six just...
Word & Image

Sepia Progressions of Form by Allison Palmer
Sepia Progressions of Form More than a few things had withered and died in the sunlight of the patio. At first...
Video Channel

Isolation by Richard C. Bower
Isolation by Richard C. Bower Settle me With a restive hand of congregation One that makes me sit back and think again...
Previously featured
Mick Gidley
Home Front For days after the children leave for their homes in the South we discover unexcavated battlefields, nonsensical as Towton. Small formations of infantrymen guard the lower book-case shelves, lone snipers lurk behind the curtains, and...
Alison Cohen
Roses The postman was my friend, rang the bell, wouldn’t leave until he’d reached me, handed me broken stems of roses — thorny with their heads at crooked angles, buds that tried but only turned to rusty paper. They’d found you by the postbox...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
March 2021 Pick of the Month
VOTING HAS CLOSED AND OUR PICK FOR MARCH 2021 WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY 19th APRIL at 5PM BST. You might call our choices for March 2021, a shortlist of two halves. Subtle delicate poems that...
‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals by Holly Chant is the IS&T Pick of the Month for February 2021
Our first shortlisted filmpoem is the first to be voted Pick of the Month and what a worthy winner it is. ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals from Sleep Never Comes To Me’s Holly Chant...
‘Vanishing Mother’ by Jenny Mitchell is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2021
The subject matter is important and is expressed with grace and craft - the pressure of whiteness and what passes for beauty. A comment that encapsulates why Jenny Mitchell’s deeply personal...
Reviews
Zoë Wells reviews Mither Tongue by Jidi Majia
Mither Tongue – A love letter to translation Parallel translations always bring a certain kind of joy. I have fond memories of reading Pablo Neruda for the first time, original text on the left,...
Carla Scarano D’Antonio reviews ‘The Magpie Almanack’ by Simon Williams
An original approach to the description and contemplation of life, nature and universal stories...
David Clarke reviews ‘A Commonplace’ by Jonathan Davidson
Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace is an act of poetic generosity. Fully in the spirit of his entertaining and engaging essay-memoir On Poetry...