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.
If you have come here looking for more information on our ‘Uprising & Resistance’ Project in conjunction with Spread the Word and Black Beyond Data, please go here.
IS&T Shop
Buy Ink Sweat & Tears Publishing books and pamphlets here.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Amirah Al Wassif
Beneath my armpit lives a Sinbad the size of a thumb.
His imagination feeds through an umbilical cord tied to my womb.
Now and then, people hear him speaking through a giant microphone—
Singing,
Cracking jokes,
Mark Smith
In the portacabin that morning, men smoked
and looked at last week’s paper again.
There was no water to fill the urn.
The first job – to get connected
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
by Elena Chamberlain is the April 2025 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Queer positivity
It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it.
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Wish Cycle
Filmpoems
Moira McPartlin
Magnificence
For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer
What jewelled gifts are these,
spliced and stacked on platters
of smeared glass?
A universe of micro.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
by Elena Chamberlain is the April 2025 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Queer positivity
It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it.
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Wish Cycle
Filmpoems
Moira McPartlin
Magnificence
For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer
What jewelled gifts are these,
spliced and stacked on platters
of smeared glass?
A universe of micro.
Previously featured
Amirah Al Wassif
Beneath my armpit lives a Sinbad the size of a thumb.
His imagination feeds through an umbilical cord tied to my womb.
Now and then, people hear him speaking through a giant microphone—
Singing,
Cracking jokes,
Mark Smith
In the portacabin that morning, men smoked
and looked at last week’s paper again.
There was no water to fill the urn.
The first job – to get connected
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘The Interior’ by Michał Choiński is October 2022’s Pick of the Month. Read, and hear it, here!
Silent scream over passing and decay. Describes dramatic events in delicate, calm and mundane way. Words that say it all and illustrate why ‘The Interior’ by Michał Choiński is the IS&T Pick of...
Jenny Pagdin is our September 2022 Pick of the Month Poet. Read and hear her poem here!
Evocative, timely and poignant Jenny Pagdin’s ‘Before the market town with the Pepper Pot building’ resonated with so many of you. You loved that you knew the place but understood, too, the...
‘Maungawhau’ by Camille McCawley is the August 2022 IS&T Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Climber and volcano - the fusion of imagery. Power of grit and determination. You know when a work of art or literature takes you to another place, to the limits? Well Camille...
Reviews
Anna Saunders, In Praise of ‘Fool’s Paradise’ by Zoe Brooks
To craft poetry that remains impactful and affecting whilst avoiding emotive, didactic writing is a real art. And Fool’s Paradise by Zoe Brooks is a rare example of this type of artistry –a...
Anthony Salandy, In Praise of ‘Erebus’ by Elizabeth Lewis Williams
In 1958, geophysicist A. G. Lewis travelled to the Antarctic to investigate the landscapes and skies of that vast and icy continent. Now Elizabeth Lewis Williams traces her father’s journeys,...
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...







