by Kate Birch | Oct 12, 2023 | News
APPLICATIONS FOR EDITING INTERNSHIPS FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2024 & EARLY 2025 (to end February) HAVE NOW CLOSED. We will open up for these again in January 2025. Ink Sweat & Tears inksweatandtears.co.uk is an online poetry and prose magazine that...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
I Think My Poem About You is Unfinished, says Sal. How so? I ask her, and she says, there are just things I want to add. Like how you suck your thumb, how you pace the room, and how you smudge your eyeliner when you cry, and your dresses, I’ve got...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 11, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Ulysses Loses Identity When a local mistakes your oar For a fan that winnows the grain You won’t have to search anymore, May your spirit abandon pain. Yes, the locals will take your oar For an artless winnowing fan! But until you have reached that...
by Helen Ivory | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Oz Hardwick is a European poet, photographer, occasional musician, and accidental academic, who has published ten chapbooks and collections, and loads more interesting stuff with other people. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University....
by Helen Ivory | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured, Poetry
Refugee I know the earth belongs to you in the same way the moon does. You’re the unspoken clause, the question nobody wants: how bad does it have to be to begin an inventory of what you can take: the clothes you stand up and lie down in, the...
