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
Clara Howell
The way a halved peach breathes, then rots
from the inside out.
Luigi Coppola
Out of ten bars, by the fifth, half of us had flickered
out and by this ninth one, it ended up just him
and me. A matchstick balanced on a stool, he sat
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
Sarah James/Leavesley
There is a secret spot
in every town and city –
step in the right place
at the right time and pace
and the world disappears…
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
Sarah James/Leavesley
There is a secret spot
in every town and city –
step in the right place
at the right time and pace
and the world disappears…
Previously featured
Clara Howell
The way a halved peach breathes, then rots
from the inside out.
Luigi Coppola
Out of ten bars, by the fifth, half of us had flickered
out and by this ninth one, it ended up just him
and me. A matchstick balanced on a stool, he sat
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Hear Kayleigh Jayshree read ‘ON BEING GHOSTED BY A FAMOUS MUSICIAN’: your ‘IS&T July 2021 Pick of the Month!
… a very passionate and visceral story - takes your heart in its hand and gently squeezes the tension into it physically ‘ON BEING GHOSTED BY A FAMOUS MUSICIAN’ had impact and this is...
Listen to and Read ‘everyone’s version of heaven is different’ by Elisabeth Sennitt Clough, the IS&T Pick of the Month for June 2021
It reads like a simultaneous slap in the face, and a hug. I love it Sometimes you just have to laugh and that, together with the poem’s authenticity, relatability and its shape, language and...
’Twas a long summer of thin air by Jayant Kashyap is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2021
READ AND HEAR THE POEM HERE. Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s the near-apocalyptic world we are living in, the raging pandemic, the creep of global warming. Maybe it’s simply the depth, beauty and...
Reviews
Pat Edwards reviews ‘Be Feared’ by Jane Burn
Living in such a digital age, it is increasingly rare to not at least know something about a writer even before we read their work. I wanted to try to approach this collection by Jane Burn as...
Ra Sh reviews Sanjeev Sethi’s Wee Book ‘Bleb’
In just 31 wee poems of 10 lines each, Sanjeev Sethi, an Indian poet, creates a monumental work of grace from raw feelings. The themes are all too familiar, but the little chambers they...
Claire Booker reviews ‘These Mothers of Gods’ by Rachel Bower
Spoiler alert! This is a seriously good book, but it pulls no punches about the nuts and bolts of motherhood. No quaint, cooing here. Instead, there’s blood and milk; love and its...





