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
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Paul Stephenson
Voicemail Sarah is away next week so would like to speak to me today if it’s convenient and not too much trouble. She wants to go over some of the finer details and explain how things will generally go from here. Sarah needs to check she’s...
Olga Dermott
Seagulls They would shred morning open from 3 a.m, jangling keys in their beaks, an hour after the last scatter of drunks had sung their way home. Every layer of black plastic flayed, pavements strewn with rot, the week split open like the belly...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
March 2021 Pick of the Month
VOTING HAS CLOSED AND OUR PICK FOR MARCH 2021 WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY 19th APRIL at 5PM BST. You might call our...
Word & Image
Summer Grass by Dan Dorman
Dan Dorman teaches creative writing and circulates library books. His writing can be found at jubilat, Word...
Video Channel
Out On The World by Catriona Knapman
Out On The World by Catriona Knapman Out on the world, out on the gentle crater edge there is a journey made by...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
March 2021 Pick of the Month
VOTING HAS CLOSED AND OUR PICK FOR MARCH 2021 WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON MONDAY 19th APRIL at 5PM BST. You might call our...
Word & Image

Summer Grass by Dan Dorman
Dan Dorman teaches creative writing and circulates library books. His writing can be found at jubilat, Word...
Video Channel

Out On The World by Catriona Knapman
Out On The World by Catriona Knapman Out on the world, out on the gentle crater edge there is a journey made by...
Previously featured
Paul Stephenson
Voicemail Sarah is away next week so would like to speak to me today if it’s convenient and not too much trouble. She wants to go over some of the finer details and explain how things will generally go from here. Sarah needs to check she’s...
Olga Dermott
Seagulls They would shred morning open from 3 a.m, jangling keys in their beaks, an hour after the last scatter of drunks had sung their way home. Every layer of black plastic flayed, pavements strewn with rot, the week split open like the belly...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ Haiku Series is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2020
Beauty and an underlying sadness is what ultimately saw Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ being voted as the Pick of the Month for December 2020 and marks the first time that a haiku sequence has achieved...
Congratulations to Mariam Saidan who is our IS&T Pick of the Month poet for November 2020
'this poem is of a few words but very deep feelings' Voters loved its beauty, its simplicity and its truth and this is why, from a superb group of shortlisted poems, Mariam Saidan's 'Lies' is the...
Your October 2020 Pick of the Month is ‘Here Come the Crows’ by Amy Rafferty
An overwhelming response to our October Pick of the Month vote sees Amy Rafferty's 'Here Come the Crows' as the ultimate winner. This beautiful, moving 'ethereal and yet beautifully observed' poem...
Reviews
Rebecca Lowe reviews ‘The Ear of Eternity’ by Xavier Panades I Blas
Xavier Panades i Blas, a Catalan-born poet now living in Wales, is passionate about two things: The first is his Catalan language and culture. The second is his writing, which comes...
Emma Storr reviews ‘The Peregrine Falcons of York Minster’ by Carole Bromley
Carole Bromley’s fourth collection contains poignant and reflective poems that demonstrate her skills of close observation, humour and pathos. She is also admirable in...
Lynn Woollacott reviews ‘FOREST moor or less’ by Dawn Bauling and Ronnie Goodyer
A joint collection from two widely published poets opens with, ‘Crescent Moon Over Cookworthy Forest’ which introduces their personal love story – hidden for most of their lives – like...