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
Siân Bentham
She doesn’t know what she is doing.
She chops and boils, snacks and sneezes, sits.
Classical radio plays, imbuing
the scene with comic dignity and wit.
J.P. Lancaster
Ivy thrives
despite dependency.
It hangs on, has its other day.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Ma Yongbo & Romit Berger
I want to remember the way back.
It seems Orion has the compass’ foot,
Swinging his other leg out into the dark
With the confidence of a man who walks on stars.
Filmpoems
Joanna Jowett
How Grief Sometimes Sits
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Ma Yongbo & Romit Berger
I want to remember the way back.
It seems Orion has the compass’ foot,
Swinging his other leg out into the dark
With the confidence of a man who walks on stars.
Filmpoems
Joanna Jowett
How Grief Sometimes Sits
Previously featured
Siân Bentham
She doesn’t know what she is doing.
She chops and boils, snacks and sneezes, sits.
Classical radio plays, imbuing
the scene with comic dignity and wit.
J.P. Lancaster
Ivy thrives
despite dependency.
It hangs on, has its other day.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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’
Read and hear it here: Rosie Garland’s ‘Poem inspired by an imaginary painting by Leonora Carrington’ IS&T’s Summer 2023 Pick!
‘Such vibrant imagery, and sense of movement’
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...