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
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Topher Allen
The Gods Are Addicts It’s better to be cremated, the only way to heaven is as smoke. Burials are the devil’s idea to harvest bones, to set them ablaze and raise hell. Volcanic eruptions are his failed attempts to ascend. Kerosene-lamps know this,...
Andrea Holland
How Young Bodies Work Grace…in that light was a promise of balance – Joy Harjo O timeline drop us here the moment you step from the subway on 23rd the boy spinning on his back / popping air O body sharpening skin into spin solo show staged on asphalt...
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News
Remembering Grant Tarbard
Poem for Grant my body is no place to be stuck in (Grant Tarbard: A Rosary of Ghosts) Each time you went away,...
Word & Image
Louise Warren & Jane McAllister
North Sea Frequency Louise Warren has published A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo with...
Video Channel
Revisiting Runaways London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSG5IkAWgFs&t=8s Since 21st October of last year when we launched...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Remembering Grant Tarbard
Poem for Grant my body is no place to be stuck in (Grant Tarbard: A Rosary of Ghosts) Each time you went away,...
Word & Image

Louise Warren & Jane McAllister
North Sea Frequency Louise Warren has published A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo with...
Video Channel

Revisiting Runaways London
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSG5IkAWgFs&t=8s Since 21st October of last year when we launched...
Previously featured
Topher Allen
The Gods Are Addicts It’s better to be cremated, the only way to heaven is as smoke. Burials are the devil’s idea to harvest bones, to set them ablaze and raise hell. Volcanic eruptions are his failed attempts to ascend. Kerosene-lamps know this,...
Andrea Holland
How Young Bodies Work Grace…in that light was a promise of balance – Joy Harjo O timeline drop us here the moment you step from the subway on 23rd the boy spinning on his back / popping air O body sharpening skin into spin solo show staged on asphalt...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Imagining myself as a bitter, old woman’ by Gurpreet Bharya is the IS&T April 2022 Pick of the Month
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: 'This poem takes you by surprise...' The title points you in one direction and then you follow it through to a...
Congratulations to Hiram Larew whose poem ‘Hardly’ is the Pick of the Month for March 2022. Read and Hear It Here
It is spare, subtle and profound. These words that really do sum up Hiram Larew’s superb poem ‘Hardly’ and are an illustration of why it has been voted as the Pick of the Month for March 2022....
Listen to Fizza Abbas read ‘How Inferiority Complex Talks to A Writer Whose Mother Tongue is Urdu’, February 2022’s Pick of the Month
It almost feels like my life has been sort of summed up in verse. We are always in awe of those who speak more than one language fluently, even more so when a poet writes in...
Reviews
Susan Castillo Street reviews ‘Swimming to Albania’ by Sue Hubbard
On reading Sue Hubbard’s collection Swimming to Albania, the concept that comes to mind is saudade. A. F. G. Bell writes in his study In Portugal, published in 1912:‘The famous saudade...
Stephen Payne reviews ‘Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter’ by Sarah Mnatzaganian
"If music be the food of love" is one of Uncle Hagop’s favourite lines, so we are told in ‘Uncle Hagop in Stratford-upon-Avon’. But for his niece, Sarah, the food of love is food...
Helen Moore reviews ‘an/other pastoral’ by Tjawangwa Dema with illustrations by Tebogo Cranwell
“For the leadwood trees of Mmadikola. Ya matswere a Mmadikola” is the dedication that award-winning New Generation African poet TJ Dema offers at the start of this excellent chapbook...