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
Edward Alport
High up, out of reach,
on a branch, no, more a twig,
a little wizened, shrunken face leers down.
Colin Pink
not the kind you eat with
but useful to turn the soil
root out potatoes or carrots
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Read and Hear ‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley: IS&T’s September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Word & Image
Nina Nazir
the egg woman
spends her days writing
she is alone again
she must find a way
to gather momentum
Filmpoems
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Read and Hear ‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley: IS&T’s September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Word & Image
Nina Nazir
the egg woman
spends her days writing
she is alone again
she must find a way
to gather momentum
Filmpoems
Previously featured
Edward Alport
High up, out of reach,
on a branch, no, more a twig,
a little wizened, shrunken face leers down.
Colin Pink
not the kind you eat with
but useful to turn the soil
root out potatoes or carrots
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Congratulations to the Joint Winners of the IS&T June 2022 Pick of the Month: Sanah Ahsan & Meg Pokrass. Read & hear their works here!
You as voters could not call it and, on reflection, neither could we, so for the first time since when we began our Picks of the Month in 2013, we have joint winners, a poem and a work of micro...
‘The Gods Are Addicts’ by Topher Allen is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2022. Read & hear it here!
Creative thinking outside the box ...describes perfectly the effect that Topher Allen’s ‘The Gods Are Addicts’ had on voters and it is for this reason, as well as the poet’s voice, his perspective,...
‘Imagining myself as a bitter, old woman’ by Gurpreet Bharya is the IS&T April 2022 Pick of the Month. Read & hear it here!
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: 'This poem takes you by surprise...' The title points you in one direction and then you follow it through to a...
Reviews
Zannah Kearns, in praise of ‘The Plumb Line’ by Hélène Demetriades
Hélène Demetriades’ debut collection, The Plumb Line, charts a life in three sections. The act of ordering gives rise to measured reflection. Complicated experiences are held up to the...
Introducing ‘In Praise of’ and some basic guidelines for reviewing
Publisher's note: Leah’s thoughtful words have inspired IS&T to designate many of our reviews as ‘In Praise of’ pieces where, while still demanding thoughtful analysis as described below, we...
Peter Clarke reviews ‘Idiolect’ by P.W Bridgman
Peter Clarke Reviews Idiolect by P.W. Bridgman P.W. Bridgman’s second collection, Idiolect, has been sitting on my desk for a while now. This has allowed me to dip into it from...