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
Hensley
Before the butcher touched bone, tendon, cartilage, hooks, scales, steel, he sat across from his wife with a blunt knife and waited for the butter to soften.
Anthony Lawrence
One had a ball of water that magnified the word shiver
on its cap, and one had been torn and thrown
against the wood, a soft bomb, leaving gills and skin.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Out of Place’ by Claire Lynn is the IS&T Pick of the Month for September
‘Love the squirmy awkwardness and the humour.’
‘It’s so relatable and conveys the awkwardness and the stiltedness with the rhythm and line breaks – love it’
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Neil Harris and Mimi
The cat is a pony,
Her nape is a mane.
The cat she is tiny but
belies her size.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Out of Place’ by Claire Lynn is the IS&T Pick of the Month for September
‘Love the squirmy awkwardness and the humour.’
‘It’s so relatable and conveys the awkwardness and the stiltedness with the rhythm and line breaks – love it’
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Neil Harris and Mimi
The cat is a pony,
Her nape is a mane.
The cat she is tiny but
belies her size.
Previously featured
Hensley
Before the butcher touched bone, tendon, cartilage, hooks, scales, steel, he sat across from his wife with a blunt knife and waited for the butter to soften.
Anthony Lawrence
One had a ball of water that magnified the word shiver
on its cap, and one had been torn and thrown
against the wood, a soft bomb, leaving gills and skin.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘On sunday morning you lay together laughing’ by Gabrielle Meadows is IS&T’s June 2026 Pick of the Month. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Something wholesome and devastating about this poem. It stayed with me – it grew inside me. It has a classic feel to it.’
‘A beautiful poem, that captures the importance of capturing those moments in time, as it stops for no-one’
‘Patterned with cows’ by Jackson is IS&T’s May 2026 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘The mixture of love, longing, nostalgia and its undercurrent of exasperation perfectly sums up the emotions involved in dealing with the loss and attendant tasks and duties when our parents die.’
‘Dear Iran’ from Sophie Lankarani is the IS&T April 2026 Pick of the Month!
‘An artful description of the feeling by simultaneous belonging and separation of second-generation immigrant from their ancestral homeland’
‘Beautiful imagery and gorgeous melancholy longing’
Reviews
In Praise of: Melissa Todd reviews ‘Memento Mori’ by Gareth Writer-Davies
‘Gareth Writer-Davies certainly keeps mortality in view, but this collection is distinguished by its insistence that death is encountered, not as an abstraction, but through the accumulated textures of ordinary living’
Antonia Saunders in Praise of ‘Tips for Collectors of the Macabre’ by Jennie E. Owen
‘[It] feels like a conversation between the living and the dead, between the body as curiosity and the body as inheritance.’
Jess Mookherjee Reviews ‘Pain Songs’ by Daniel Sluman
The collection’s emotional movement is almost invisible until suddenly it isn’t. What initially appears to be a book organised around chronic pain reveals itself to be a meditation on fertility, inheritance and continuation.