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
Daniel Sluman
just as the night sky shifts
beyond the minds
of the animals outside
the ceilings
we are pressed beneath change
in aspect & colour
Farah Ali
Notes from nature on how to survive this:
1. Learn crypsis and mimesis be a gecko or a mossy frog
2. Method actors sway like dead-leaf mantises on branches
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi
Fog
a fog descends
a sulphur smell
swallows the house across the street
Filmpoems
Janet Lees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi
Fog
a fog descends
a sulphur smell
swallows the house across the street
Filmpoems
Janet Lees
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and...
Previously featured
Daniel Sluman
just as the night sky shifts
beyond the minds
of the animals outside
the ceilings
we are pressed beneath change
in aspect & colour
Farah Ali
Notes from nature on how to survive this:
1. Learn crypsis and mimesis be a gecko or a mossy frog
2. Method actors sway like dead-leaf mantises on branches
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
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...
Andrew McDonnell reviews ‘Fresh Out of The Sky’ by George Szirtes
Mary Borden, in her forward to her WW1 modernist memoir of prose poems, The Forbidden Zone, writes how her pieces are fragments of 'a great confusion'. The poems that make up a great part of...