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
Edward Alport
High up, out of reach,
on a branch, no, more a twig,
a little wizened, shrunken face leers down.
Colin Pink
not the kind you eat with
but useful to turn the soil
root out potatoes or carrots
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Vote now for the May 2025 Pick of the Month!
Joseph Blythe
Jo Farrant
Martin Figura
Marissa Glover
Mofiyinfoluwa O.
Jennie E. Owen
Word & Image
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
they spread over March like
Tama Impala, lost in it
and grates that cannot block the city
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Vote now for the May 2025 Pick of the Month!
Joseph Blythe
Jo Farrant
Martin Figura
Marissa Glover
Mofiyinfoluwa O.
Jennie E. Owen
Word & Image

Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
they spread over March like
Tama Impala, lost in it
and grates that cannot block the city
Filmpoems

Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Previously featured
Edward Alport
High up, out of reach,
on a branch, no, more a twig,
a little wizened, shrunken face leers down.
Colin Pink
not the kind you eat with
but useful to turn the soil
root out potatoes or carrots
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Vote now for the May 2025 Pick of the Month!
Joseph Blythe
Jo Farrant
Martin Figura
Marissa Glover
Mofiyinfoluwa O.
Jennie E. Owen
by Elena Chamberlain is the April 2025 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Queer positivity
It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it.
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Reviews
In Praise Of…: Annie Brechin reviews ‘Divorcee Disco Music’ by Christopher Crawford
What is being questioned? Many things: relationships, reality, death, the society that binds us and fractures us at once.
In Praise of.. : Alison Hramiak Reviews ‘Songs For Wo(Men)’ by Mugabi Byenka
‘a journey which bleeds through the book, and which holds such a powerful and moving tale’
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.’