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
Mai Ishikawa
Taxi I took shelter under a tree, where you also sheltered. You looked at me awkwardly, as if to say Excuse me before shaking your feathers – a tiny droplet landed on my cheek. Suspended, we held each other responsible for the silence. We listened to the rain landing...
Lue Mac
Sad how things expire before you work out
what they mean. Like earlier I was noticing
the rose petals on the path, all damp and slick,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley is the September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and artworks have been published internationally.
Filmpoems
Jessamine O’Connor
Nerve Music
Sometimes I’m jittery
like this jittering
nervousness appears
as a tremor from somewhere
distant far away inside
and I’m on edge
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley is the September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Debbie Strange (Canada) is a chronically ill short-form poet and visual artist whose creative passions connect her more closely to the world and to herself. Thousands of her poems and artworks have been published internationally.
Filmpoems
Jessamine O’Connor
Nerve Music
Sometimes I’m jittery
like this jittering
nervousness appears
as a tremor from somewhere
distant far away inside
and I’m on edge
Previously featured
Mai Ishikawa
Taxi I took shelter under a tree, where you also sheltered. You looked at me awkwardly, as if to say Excuse me before shaking your feathers – a tiny droplet landed on my cheek. Suspended, we held each other responsible for the silence. We listened to the rain landing...
Lue Mac
Sad how things expire before you work out
what they mean. Like earlier I was noticing
the rose petals on the path, all damp and slick,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ by Robin Houghton is the June 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here.
‘Beautiful interweaving of nature and human concerns’
‘What Part of Me?’ by Jenny Mitchell is IS&T’s May 2024 Pick of the Month
It stopped me in my tracks. I was there by the graveside full of emotion and discomfort and – now I feel disturbed but compassionate
Read and hear April 2024’s Pick of the Month: ‘Limbo’ by Anna Mindel Crawford
‘Deft, dark, brilliantly written’
‘It really captures the idea of ‘the space between’.’
Reviews
In Praise of…: Anna Saunders Reviews ‘Blood Alluvium’ by S. Preston Duncan
A stunning collection with its own unique and redemptive music, written by the writer whose work novelist Tom Robbins described as ‘the feeling of having asked (and received) an autograph from starlight’.
Claire Booker In Praise of… ‘Birds Knit My Ribs Together’ by Phil Barnett
When poets write from the core of their beings, good things arise. Anyone fascinated by wild life and the wonderment it can inspire would do well to add this collection to their bookshelves.
Colin Harrington In Praise of… ‘Knock-knock’ by Owen Lewis.
Knock-knock is a beautiful and honorable portrait of accepting life’s later years, and ending, crafted very gracefully with kindness.