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
Hedy Hume
Stepping into the opposing seat
I smile, and the look I receive
Makes me feel the antisocial one.
Jo Bardsley
The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
The IS&T Internship Programme
The IS&T intern is a paid editing position for poets who identify as Black, Asian, Latinx, Mixed or from another global majority ethnic group.
Word & Image
Nina Nazir
the egg woman
spends her days writing
she is alone again
she must find a way
to gather momentum
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
The IS&T Internship Programme
The IS&T intern is a paid editing position for poets who identify as Black, Asian, Latinx, Mixed or from another global majority ethnic group.
Word & Image
Nina Nazir
the egg woman
spends her days writing
she is alone again
she must find a way
to gather momentum
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
Hedy Hume
Stepping into the opposing seat
I smile, and the look I receive
Makes me feel the antisocial one.
Jo Bardsley
The little piece of newspaper, crisp and dark with age, flutters out of the gritty space between the fridge and the cabinet. I am cleaning the house while my wife is at school and at first I don’t understand.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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...
Celestine Stilwell’s ‘Little boy dream’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for April 2021
READ and HEAR their poem here. ‘Beautiful... and provoking’ Add memories of ‘long lost summers, childhood curiosity and innocence’ to that as well as an excellent metre, rhythms, imagery and...
Reviews
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...
Angela France reviews Everlove by Maggie Butt
Everlove is a title to live up to but the poems in Maggie Butt’s sixth collection are everloving in that they demonstrate her enduring and empathetic concern with the human condition. The collection...