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
Marjory Woodfield
On Kinley’s Lane, quince tree, wild blackberries, branches of feijoa reaching over a fence, fallen fruit.
Ian Seed
What was the Welsh for ‘hedgehog’? That was what he wanted to know.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
A Warm Welcome to Sairah Ahsan, IS&T’s Newest Editing Intern!
The Heart and the Stomach
Fists of smooth muscle curl in sleep
clutch at hunger.
Sticky with a sick feeling
they anticipate the winter tundra
of empty cupboards…
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
A Warm Welcome to Sairah Ahsan, IS&T’s Newest Editing Intern!
The Heart and the Stomach
Fists of smooth muscle curl in sleep
clutch at hunger.
Sticky with a sick feeling
they anticipate the winter tundra
of empty cupboards…
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Previously featured
Marjory Woodfield
On Kinley’s Lane, quince tree, wild blackberries, branches of feijoa reaching over a fence, fallen fruit.
Ian Seed
What was the Welsh for ‘hedgehog’? That was what he wanted to know.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘A very small thing’ by Ann Heath is the IS&T November 2023 Pick of the Month
‘A tiny thing, an absolute punch to the gut though.’
Read and Hear ‘The Sorry Letter’ by Michelle Diaz, 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’
Reviews
Tim Kiely reviews ‘We Saw It All Happen’ by Julian Bishop
Writing successful ecopoetry is harder than it looks.
In Praise of: Kevin Densley reviews ‘crows at dusk’ by James Roderick Burns
In Burns’ crows at dusk, we have an impressive haiku collection of considerable intelligence and power, written by a person with a splendid eye for detail.
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...