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
Jason Ryberg
Sometimes I’d swear that
the ancient box fan I’ve hauled
around with me for
years is a receiver for
the conversations of ghosts
Peter Wallis
Dead in a chest,
are folded matinee jackets, bonnets, bootees and mitts.
Tissue sighs like the sea at Lowestoft,
always Third week in August
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature
‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’
– Holly Winter-Hughes
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Beware the Phantom Limbo Dancer
beware
the phantom limbo dancer
who steals in unawares
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
Seaglass, Flint and Jasper
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature
‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’
– Holly Winter-Hughes
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Beware the Phantom Limbo Dancer
beware
the phantom limbo dancer
who steals in unawares
More Word & Image
Kayleigh Jayshree
Seaglass, Flint and Jasper
Previously featured
Jason Ryberg
Sometimes I’d swear that
the ancient box fan I’ve hauled
around with me for
years is a receiver for
the conversations of ghosts
Peter Wallis
Dead in a chest,
are folded matinee jackets, bonnets, bootees and mitts.
Tissue sighs like the sea at Lowestoft,
always Third week in August
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Listen to Julie Stevens’ Poem ‘Insomnia’ our IS&T October 2021 Pick of the Month
Speaks directly and painfully, sharp images ‘Insomnia’ by Julie Stevens spoke to many voters, whether it was an anguish experienced only occasionally or bound up and endemic to a chronic...
Listen to Ofem Ubi’s ‘and so it goes…’ the September 2021 Pick of the Month
He has such a powerful way with words. An innate talent. Voters responded to the truth of Ofem Ubi’s poem, its simplicity, relatability and finesse; it for these reasons and more that 'and so it...
Listen to ‘Peace Pipe’ by Konstandinos Mahoney, the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2021!
Deceptively simple, emotionally intense In a shortlist of poems revolving around conflict, it was Konstandinos Mahoney’s ‘Peace Pipe’ that voters reached for, with many commenting on its powerful...
Reviews
Owen Lewis reviews ‘Bread without Butter Bara heb fenyn’ by Wendy French
From the Welsh Diaspora Bread without Butter Bara heb Fenyn explores the cultural and emotional heritage of poet...
Carole Bromley reviews ‘My Name is Mercy’ by Martin Figura
I was intrigued when I saw on social media that Martin Figura was regularly staying in a haunted inn in Salisbury during lockdown. I used to live there, taught at the boys’ grammar school and...
Claire Booker reviews ‘History of Forgetfulness’ by Shahé Mankerian
Beirut, 1975. I remember the news bulletins, the disbelief that anyone, let alone children, could survive the horrors of a bloody civil war. But they can, and Shahé Mankerian’s...