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.
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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Kate Bailey
They’ve mended the park fence again,
patched it over with the usual ugly metalwork,
like a riot barricade.
Ibrar Sami
Across the barren land
where blood once played its savage Holi,
the fearless migratory birds
have returned again.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Wish Cycle
Filmpoems
Tamsyn Challenger
Fret
Soft droplets form on protrusions
Floating legs in front
A saline nest laps around
flesh traps underneath
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Wish Cycle
Filmpoems
Tamsyn Challenger
Fret
Soft droplets form on protrusions
Floating legs in front
A saline nest laps around
flesh traps underneath
Previously featured
Kate Bailey
They’ve mended the park fence again,
patched it over with the usual ugly metalwork,
like a riot barricade.
Ibrar Sami
Across the barren land
where blood once played its savage Holi,
the fearless migratory birds
have returned again.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Confessions to a neurologist’ by Ann Grant is the IS&T June 2023 Pick of the Month. Read, and Hear Ann Read It, Here!
‘Beautifully confessional, devastatingly true.’
‘Sometimes, a Man Could Cry’ by Matthew M.C. Smith is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2023. Read and Hear it Here.
‘Striking, moving imagist poem!’
‘When an albatross crash-lands in a dream’ by Deborah Harvey is the IS&T April 2023 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘It was the poem that kept coming back’
Reviews
Clare Morris reviews ‘Coalescence’ by Tim King
Coalescence by Tim King Lulu Press (230 pages of poetry) Tim King can always be relied on to provide the perfect poetry pick-me-up that every writer longs for. ‘Coalescence’ is a glorious...
Tim Kiely reviews ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ by Arji Manuelpillai
Improvised Explosive Device by Arji Manuelpillai Penned in the Margins (106 pages of poetry) The first time I heard a poem by Arji Manuelpillai, he was reading from this collection on BBC...
In Praise of: Jane Burn reviews ‘Love Leans over the Table’ by Rosie Jackson
Love Leans over the Table by Rosie Jackson Two Rivers Press, £10.99 (100 pages of poetry) This a long, fascinatingly dense collection that bears much careful study. I never set out to read any book...








