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
David Waters
When I was a child my mother’s hands were unremarkable. She never got her nails done or anything crazy like that.
Fran Hawthorne
It was only my second speech and debate tournament in high school, and I was coming home with a gold medal in Dramatic Interpretation and a silver in Extemp.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Welcome Fathima Zahra, IS&T’s latest Editing Intern
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet and performer based in London. She is a Barbican Young Poet and Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her debut pamphlet sargam/ swargam was selected as PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2021.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
a new year
we will meet again
on the other side
Filmpoems
Archive Feature: Bhumika Billa
Portraits of Cambridge
Girls here can
dream
dare
do
before they disappear into the
blue plaques of cam-boys-clubs
by the Eagle Pub.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Welcome Fathima Zahra, IS&T’s latest Editing Intern
Fathima Zahra is an Indian poet and performer based in London. She is a Barbican Young Poet and Roundhouse Poetry Collective alum. Her debut pamphlet sargam/ swargam was selected as PBS Pamphlet Choice in 2021.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
a new year
we will meet again
on the other side
Filmpoems
Archive Feature: Bhumika Billa
Portraits of Cambridge
Girls here can
dream
dare
do
before they disappear into the
blue plaques of cam-boys-clubs
by the Eagle Pub.
Previously featured
David Waters
When I was a child my mother’s hands were unremarkable. She never got her nails done or anything crazy like that.
Fran Hawthorne
It was only my second speech and debate tournament in high school, and I was coming home with a gold medal in Dramatic Interpretation and a silver in Extemp.
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
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...







