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.
We try to keep waiting-time short, but because of increased submissions, the current waiting time between submission and publication is around twelve weeks.
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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Andrea Holland
How Young Bodies Work Grace…in that light was a promise of balance – Joy Harjo O timeline drop us here the moment you step from the subway on 23rd the boy spinning on his back / popping air O body sharpening skin into spin solo show staged on asphalt...
Clare M Coombe
In love with You played Kylie Minogue and Lady Gaga on vinyl, because it was on trend again, and not just for our dads, and we thought it was cool to know all the words to Judas, because we’d studied theology and we had PhDs. And we danced...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Imagining myself as a bitter, old woman’ by Gurpreet Bharya is the IS&T April 2022 Pick of the Month
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: 'This poem takes you by surprise...' The...
Word & Image
Kate Rigby
Hyperhidrosis ephemeral tides of a faulty sweat-tap bits of rubbish wastepaper with...
Video Channel
George Duggan & Samuel Hart
me or the devil Ted Hankey asks, "Who's in charge? Me? Or the Devil?" Chilling and...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘Imagining myself as a bitter, old woman’ by Gurpreet Bharya is the IS&T April 2022 Pick of the Month
The poem is so inspiring and makes me feel empowered As another voter put it: 'This poem takes you by surprise...' The...
Word & Image

Kate Rigby
Hyperhidrosis ephemeral tides of a faulty sweat-tap bits of rubbish wastepaper with...
Video Channel

George Duggan & Samuel Hart
me or the devil Ted Hankey asks, "Who's in charge? Me? Or the Devil?" Chilling and...
Previously featured
Andrea Holland
How Young Bodies Work Grace…in that light was a promise of balance – Joy Harjo O timeline drop us here the moment you step from the subway on 23rd the boy spinning on his back / popping air O body sharpening skin into spin solo show staged on asphalt...
Clare M Coombe
In love with You played Kylie Minogue and Lady Gaga on vinyl, because it was on trend again, and not just for our dads, and we thought it was cool to know all the words to Judas, because we’d studied theology and we had PhDs. And we danced...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Listen to Manon Ceridwen James read the Pick of the Month poem for January 2022
… it’s so real. The movement of the poem without breath evokes exactly the situation it describes The wonderfully titled 'A Parishioner Complains at a Parish Church Council When We...
Listen to Abigail Flint read ‘Self portrait as Blackpool’, the IS&T December 2021 Pick of the Month.
So evocative and vivid Lovers of all things seaside and Blackpool pushed Abigail Flint’s ‘Self portait as Blackpool’ to the fore and she emerged as the winning Pick of the Month poet with her...
Listen to Subitha Baghirathan’s ‘Sari shop, Easton’ our the IS&T November Pick of the Month.
Beautiful, evocative and hits all my senses The words ‘evocative’ and ‘beautiful’ were used over and over again to describe Subitha Baghirathan's ‘Sari shop, Easton’ and it is for this reason...
Reviews
Janice Dempsey reviews ‘Performance Rites’ by Barry Smith
Barry Smith’s debut poetry collection is a cornucopia of his rich life and artistic experiences. These poems draw on his life as an educator, theatre director, music lover; Smith...
Tessa Strickland reviews ‘Light Makes it Easy’ by Rosie Jackson
Award-winning poet Rosie Jackson is in her element with her latest pamphlet, Light Makes it Easy. Richly informed by literary and spiritual antecedents, these poems are also completely...
Owen Lewis reviews ‘Bread without Butter Bara heb fenyn’ by Wendy French
From the Welsh Diaspora Bread without Butter Bara heb Fenyn explores the cultural and emotional heritage of poet...