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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Matt Alton
Homing I My mum used to say that when she died she wanted to come back as a well looked after cat. Two weeks before, for Christmas, I bought her a cat onesie. We assumed she would be spending plenty of time on the sofa with our tabbies – enough for the...
Robert Garnham
Cutting Through The tea-light flames would dance as if a modernist ballet were being staged in each of the glass dishes from expensive supermarket puddings. He had dotted them around his ground floor flat, on various pieces of unlikely furniture...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Sunday Mornings’ by Sally Festing is the March 2021 Pick of the Month.
It was so so close and rather like a race in which first one contender and then the other edges out into the lead. But...
Word & Image
Sepia Progressions of Form by Allison Palmer
Sepia Progressions of Form More than a few things had withered and died in the sunlight of the patio. At first...
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Isolation by Richard C. Bower
Isolation by Richard C. Bower Settle me With a restive hand of congregation One that makes me sit back and think again...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘Sunday Mornings’ by Sally Festing is the March 2021 Pick of the Month.
It was so so close and rather like a race in which first one contender and then the other edges out into the lead. But...
Word & Image

Sepia Progressions of Form by Allison Palmer
Sepia Progressions of Form More than a few things had withered and died in the sunlight of the patio. At first...
Video Channel

Isolation by Richard C. Bower
Isolation by Richard C. Bower Settle me With a restive hand of congregation One that makes me sit back and think again...
Previously featured
Matt Alton
Homing I My mum used to say that when she died she wanted to come back as a well looked after cat. Two weeks before, for Christmas, I bought her a cat onesie. We assumed she would be spending plenty of time on the sofa with our tabbies – enough for the...
Robert Garnham
Cutting Through The tea-light flames would dance as if a modernist ballet were being staged in each of the glass dishes from expensive supermarket puddings. He had dotted them around his ground floor flat, on various pieces of unlikely furniture...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Sunday Mornings’ by Sally Festing is the March 2021 Pick of the Month.
It was so so close and rather like a race in which first one contender and then the other edges out into the lead. But in the end it was Sally Festing’s ‘Sunday Mornings’ which triumphed, its...
‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals by Holly Chant is the IS&T Pick of the Month for February 2021
Our first shortlisted filmpoem is the first to be voted Pick of the Month and what a worthy winner it is. ‘Surprise’ by Mariam Varsimashvili with visuals from Sleep Never Comes To Me’s Holly Chant...
‘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...
Reviews
Zoë Wells reviews Mither Tongue by Jidi Majia
Mither Tongue – A love letter to translation Parallel translations always bring a certain kind of joy. I have fond memories of reading Pablo Neruda for the first time, original text on the left,...
Carla Scarano D’Antonio reviews ‘The Magpie Almanack’ by Simon Williams
An original approach to the description and contemplation of life, nature and universal stories...
David Clarke reviews ‘A Commonplace’ by Jonathan Davidson
Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace is an act of poetic generosity. Fully in the spirit of his entertaining and engaging essay-memoir On Poetry...