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
Carolyn Oulton
Vaccination Day At the surgery my mother doesn’t want to wait in the car, keeps opening the door. It’s deadly out there, and all I can think is she’s going to say Yoohoo! It’s Mrs … yoohoo! No one is actually warm enough. Mr Poole never does turn...
Carla Scarano D’Antonio
A safe den When my girlfriends come we delineate our territories. I build a fence with a cradle, two chairs and a stool, a cut-out space that protects and defines against trespassing. Knitted blankets cover my baby dolls, rags are my curtains. I arrange...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘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...
Word & Image
ONCE by Catherine Gander
ONCE sunlight splashed like wine across our table where you knelt at work on crayon glyphs announcing your creations...
Video Channel
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili (illustrations and animation created by Sleep Never Comes To Me) Open the...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘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...
Word & Image

ONCE by Catherine Gander
ONCE sunlight splashed like wine across our table where you knelt at work on crayon glyphs announcing your creations...
Video Channel

Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili
Surprise by Mariam Varsimashvili (illustrations and animation created by Sleep Never Comes To Me) Open the...
Previously featured
Carolyn Oulton
Vaccination Day At the surgery my mother doesn’t want to wait in the car, keeps opening the door. It’s deadly out there, and all I can think is she’s going to say Yoohoo! It’s Mrs … yoohoo! No one is actually warm enough. Mr Poole never does turn...
Carla Scarano D’Antonio
A safe den When my girlfriends come we delineate our territories. I build a fence with a cradle, two chairs and a stool, a cut-out space that protects and defines against trespassing. Knitted blankets cover my baby dolls, rags are my curtains. I arrange...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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 yet...
Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ Haiku Series is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2020
Beauty and an underlying sadness is what ultimately saw Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ being voted as the Pick of the Month for December 2020 and marks the first time that a haiku sequence has achieved...
Congratulations to Mariam Saidan who is our IS&T Pick of the Month poet for November 2020
'this poem is of a few words but very deep feelings' Voters loved its beauty, its simplicity and its truth and this is why, from a superb group of shortlisted poems, Mariam Saidan's 'Lies' is the...
Reviews
Rebecca Lowe reviews ‘The Ear of Eternity’ by Xavier Panades I Blas
Xavier Panades i Blas, a Catalan-born poet now living in Wales, is passionate about two things: The first is his Catalan language and culture. The second is his writing, which comes...
Emma Storr reviews ‘The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster’ by Carole Bromley
Carole Bromley’s fourth collection contains poignant and reflective poems that demonstrate her skills of close observation, humour and pathos. She is also admirable in...
Lynn Woollacott reviews ‘FOREST moor or less’ by Dawn Bauling and Ronnie Goodyer
A joint collection from two widely published poets opens with, ‘Crescent Moon Over Cookworthy Forest’ which introduces their personal love story – hidden for most of their lives – like...