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
Claire Harnett-Mann
Behind the block, the night tears in scrub-calls.
Fox kill scores the morning,
ripped by prints in muck.
Hedy Hume
Stepping into the opposing seat
I smile, and the look I receive
Makes me feel the antisocial one.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘A Town of Shadows’ by Joe Williams is the final Pick of the Month for 2024. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line’
‘Clear structure, directness, chilling emotion’
Word & Image
S. Niroshini
IRATTAM: A THEORY OF RED Irattam is a short excerpt from a longer practise-based work in progress mediating on...
Filmpoems
Martin Rieser
We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘A Town of Shadows’ by Joe Williams is the final Pick of the Month for 2024. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line’
‘Clear structure, directness, chilling emotion’
Word & Image
S. Niroshini
IRATTAM: A THEORY OF RED Irattam is a short excerpt from a longer practise-based work in progress mediating on...
Filmpoems
Martin Rieser
We came to the tree with open arms
in hope, with a feel for rain,
we left the forest’s endless charms
and the lost words, and the new alarms
for the great tree’s growing pains.
Previously featured
Claire Harnett-Mann
Behind the block, the night tears in scrub-calls.
Fox kill scores the morning,
ripped by prints in muck.
Hedy Hume
Stepping into the opposing seat
I smile, and the look I receive
Makes me feel the antisocial one.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Listen to Abigail Flint read ‘Self portrait as Blackpool’, the IS&T December 2021 Pick of the Month.
So evocative and vivid Lovers of all things seaside and Blackpool pushed Abigail Flint’s ‘Self portait as Blackpool’ to the fore and she emerged as the winning Pick of the Month poet with her...
Listen to Subitha Baghirathan’s ‘Sari shop, Easton’ our the IS&T November Pick of the Month.
Beautiful, evocative and hits all my senses The words ‘evocative’ and ‘beautiful’ were used over and over again to describe Subitha Baghirathan's ‘Sari shop, Easton’ and it is for this reason...
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...
Reviews
Tessa Strickland reviews ‘Light Makes it Easy’ by Rosie Jackson
Award-winning poet Rosie Jackson is in her element with her latest pamphlet, Light Makes it Easy. Richly informed by literary and spiritual antecedents, these poems are also completely...
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...








