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
Matt Bryden
Now a blanket is spread, offerings
of chutney and shin bones,
a taper held to the fire
that heats the tar beneath our boats.
Kit Duke
I didn’t know then,
moving for a mouth
that refused to yield an inch,
what it wasn’t.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Pivotal’ by Tadhg Carey is the October 2025 Pick of the Month. Congratulations! Revisit the Poem and Hear it Read Here.
‘Beautiful, subtle merging of that moment of sporting destiny and the creative process’
‘This poem captures the momentum of sport, the exhilaration and tension, whilst also almost imperceptibly focuses our attention on the mechanics of writing poetry.’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Previously featured
Matt Bryden
Now a blanket is spread, offerings
of chutney and shin bones,
a taper held to the fire
that heats the tar beneath our boats.
Kit Duke
I didn’t know then,
moving for a mouth
that refused to yield an inch,
what it wasn’t.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Congratulations to the Joint Winners of the IS&T June 2022 Pick of the Month: Sanah Ahsan & Meg Pokrass. Read & hear their works here!
You as voters could not call it and, on reflection, neither could we, so for the first time since when we began our Picks of the Month in 2013, we have joint winners, a poem and a work of micro...
‘The Gods Are Addicts’ by Topher Allen is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2022. Read & hear it here!
Creative thinking outside the box ...describes perfectly the effect that Topher Allen’s ‘The Gods Are Addicts’ had on voters and it is for this reason, as well as the poet’s voice, his perspective,...
‘Imagining myself as a bitter, old woman’ by Gurpreet Bharya is the IS&T April 2022 Pick of the Month. Read & hear it here!
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: 'This poem takes you by surprise...' The title points you in one direction and then you follow it through to a...
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...