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
Julia Biggs
Word & Image, Julia Biggs
all beautiful things begin to pall, if
Jemma Walsh
Siberian Larkspur Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘The Sorry Letter’ by Michelle Diaz is the October 2023 Pick of the Month!
‘It’s so straightforward, so devastating.’
Word & Image
Julia Biggs
At the Ballet: I all things beautiful begin to pall if fixed for ever in the dumb enormity of performance...
Filmpoems
Filmpoems from the Archives: ‘Golden Hour’ by Celestine Stilwell.
Golden Hour Over great absences speckled with birds wings, a spell is lifted – dusk like a...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘The Sorry Letter’ by Michelle Diaz is the October 2023 Pick of the Month!
‘It’s so straightforward, so devastating.’
Word & Image
Julia Biggs
At the Ballet: I all things beautiful begin to pall if fixed for ever in the dumb enormity of performance...
Filmpoems

Filmpoems from the Archives: ‘Golden Hour’ by Celestine Stilwell.
Golden Hour Over great absences speckled with birds wings, a spell is lifted – dusk like a...
Previously featured
Julia Biggs
Word & Image, Julia Biggs
all beautiful things begin to pall, if
Jemma Walsh
Siberian Larkspur Jemma Walsh is an Irish poet based in London. She is currently doing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her work has been published in The Irish Times, Moth Magazine, HOWL Magazine, Crossways...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘The Sorry Letter’ by Michelle Diaz is the October 2023 Pick of the Month!
‘It’s so straightforward, so devastating.’
Tim Relf’s ‘…walking’ is the September 2023 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘it’s upbeat, joyous and just carries you along’
Read and hear it here: Rosie Garland’s ‘Poem inspired by an imaginary painting by Leonora Carrington’ IS&T’s Summer 2023 Pick!
‘Such vibrant imagery, and sense of movement’
Reviews
In Praise of: Kevin Densley reviews ‘crows at dusk’ by James Roderick Burns
crows at dusk by James Roderick Burns Red Moon Press (USA) www.redmoonpress.com $20 (USA) (112 pages) The first thing one notices when looking at James Roderick Burns’ haiku collection crows at dusk...
In Praise of: Charlie Baylis reviews ‘suddenly, it’s now’ by Blossom Hibbert
suddenly, it's now by Blossom Hibbert Leafe Press, £7.00 (28 pages of poetry) suddenly, it’s now is a fun, dazzling and provocative debut pamphlet from a bright green voice in poetry. Blossom...
Helen Moore reviews ‘Federal Gods’ by Clare Saponia
Federal Gods by Clare Saponia Palewell Press (112 pages of poetry) Clare Saponia’s reputation for radically engaged poetry, characterised by a boldly provocative and satirical style, was already...