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
Three poems on Counting for National Poetry Day: Max Wallis, Julie Anne Jenson, Brian Kelly
I don’t wear them
or have any
but you gave me a pair
of seven-inch goth platform heels.
Fizza Abbas
They say change is a constant,
but this constant became a coefficient
always racing to catch me
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Poetry from UEA MA Scholars 2023/2024: Badriya Abdullah and Dana Collins
Oranges with Bibi
Don’t hold the knife like that!
the first love lesson
from my grandmother…
– Badriya Abdullah
*
pulp
just once I want
you sprayed over pavement
I split my knuckles swinging…
– Dana Collins
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo, Romit Berger
with Calypso与卡吕普索同在
No horizon will comfort you.
See that faint line I pencilled in,
Around your heart. Stop short.
Filmpoems
Janet Lees
https://youtu.be/q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and high white and hard as a...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Poetry from UEA MA Scholars 2023/2024: Badriya Abdullah and Dana Collins
Oranges with Bibi
Don’t hold the knife like that!
the first love lesson
from my grandmother…
– Badriya Abdullah
*
pulp
just once I want
you sprayed over pavement
I split my knuckles swinging…
– Dana Collins
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Mǎ Yongbo, Romit Berger
with Calypso与卡吕普索同在
No horizon will comfort you.
See that faint line I pencilled in,
Around your heart. Stop short.
Filmpoems
Janet Lees
https://youtu.be/q0nStafY1GI Nine Moons Physic The moon changes size Tonight it is small and high white and hard as a...
Previously featured
Three poems on Counting for National Poetry Day: Max Wallis, Julie Anne Jenson, Brian Kelly
I don’t wear them
or have any
but you gave me a pair
of seven-inch goth platform heels.
Fizza Abbas
They say change is a constant,
but this constant became a coefficient
always racing to catch me
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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’.’
‘A Bad Spell’ by Lynn Valentine is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March. Read it! Listen to it!
‘This poem is pure enchantment. The captivating vocabulary intensely immersive imagery had the hairs on the back of my neck prickled from the outset.’
Reviews
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.
Kayleigh Jayshree reviews ‘Makeover’ by Laurie Bolger
‘Makeover’ is a fun, stirring, and comforting pamphlet, with a variety and uniqueness in tone that makes Laurie Bolger a poet to watch.