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
Krishh Biswal
You did not ask for knees —
They found the floor themselves.
Not from command,
But gravity.
Tamara Salih
That winter the snow kept rising,
a slow white wall climbing the windows,
each morning untouched,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Reimagination of Gravity’ by Paul Chuks is July’s Pick of the Month! Read and Hear it Here.
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it.
Wonderful way of observation
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Mashed Deborah Nash lives in Brighton, S.E. England. She studied visual...
Filmpoems
Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
CW: flashing lights
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Reimagination of Gravity’ by Paul Chuks is July’s Pick of the Month! Read and Hear it Here.
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it.
Wonderful way of observation
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Mashed Deborah Nash lives in Brighton, S.E. England. She studied visual...
Filmpoems
Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
CW: flashing lights
Previously featured
Krishh Biswal
You did not ask for knees —
They found the floor themselves.
Not from command,
But gravity.
Tamara Salih
That winter the snow kept rising,
a slow white wall climbing the windows,
each morning untouched,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Shakiah K Johnson’s ‘What Comes After Death?’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2023. Read and hear it here!
Written beautifully with a deep message and theme that crosses multiple paradigms A spare elegant poem but one with deeper meanings. And a duck. This unique poem made voters think. They kept going...
‘This Oh So Bearable Lightness’ by Zoe Piponides is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2022. Read and hear it here.
excruciatingly beautiful Two words that capture voters’ response to Zoe Piponides' 'This Oh So Bearable Lightness' and illustrate why it is the Pick of the Month for December 2022. Voters found the...
Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Read and hear it here!
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being repeated again and again in comments, it is no surprise that Becky May’s ‘My...
Reviews
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s ‘Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency’
The School of Try Again: In Praise Of Chen Chen’s Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced An Emergency (Bloodaxe, 2022) by Helen Bowell When I read Chen Chen’s first book, When I Grow Up I Want To Be...
Ankit Raj Ojha In Praise Of ‘Strokes of Solace’ by Sanjeev Sethi
The title of Sanjeev Sethi’s sixth book of poetry, Strokes of Solace, proclaims a promise. And Sethi delivers, singing the universal human comedy from a personal vantage point while...
Rachael Clyne, In Praise of ‘Notes From A Shipwreck’ by Jessica Mookherjee
Jessica Mookherjee’s third collection, Notes From A Shipwreck is an epic voyage filled with maritime references. It weaves the poet’s Bengali Hindu heritage with classic European tales and alludes...