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
Catherine Shonack
when confronted with vast, endlessness of the ocean
who wouldn’t go mad?
Ansuya Patel
Women scrape coins from their purse,
count pennies, one lifts up a watermelon
in mid-air like raising a newborn to light.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Mashed Deborah Nash lives in Brighton, S.E. England. She studied visual...
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image

Deborah Nash
Mashed Deborah Nash lives in Brighton, S.E. England. She studied visual...
Filmpoems

Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Previously featured
Catherine Shonack
when confronted with vast, endlessness of the ocean
who wouldn’t go mad?
Ansuya Patel
Women scrape coins from their purse,
count pennies, one lifts up a watermelon
in mid-air like raising a newborn to light.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
‘A Town of Shadows’ by Joe Williams is the final Pick of the Month for 2024. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line’
‘Clear structure, directness, chilling emotion’
Reviews
In Praise of.. : Alison Hramiak Reviews ‘Songs For Wo(Men)’ by Mugabi Byenka
‘a journey which bleeds through the book, and which holds such a powerful and moving tale’
In Praise of: Carolyn Oulton reviews ‘The Horse And The Girl’ and ‘Maiden Mother Crone’ by Madeleine White
‘Both collections speak to the tradition of the quest narrative, as the female speaker draws on nature and spiritual histories to navigate 21st century problems.’
In Praise of: Jean Atkin reviews ‘Janus’ by Catherine Ayres
“There’s a generosity about this collection, laid right alongside the vulnerability that Ayres chooses to share with us.’