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
Molly Knox
I count:
four cows in the meadows. Made
friends with them this Spring.
Ervin Brown for Day three of our Invisible and Visible Disabilities feature and for the last day of Autism Acceptance month
I ran to the gym instructor, a tall man. He had a bumpkin’s voice and wore a jersey like he played football. He leaned against the school wall with his buddies. I tugged at his arm and pointed at the boy who wouldn’t leave me alone, but he waved me off. This was not the first time I had been bullied for my autism.
I walked past the playground into a wooded area, trekking along the fence line until I reached the opposite end of the schoolyard. This spot is where the yard spilled into the main road. I took one step off the grass and felt a rainbow of delight explode from my chest. I was no longer on school property.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature
‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’
– Holly Winter-Hughes
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Julian Dobson
17 small acts of ending
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature
‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’
– Holly Winter-Hughes
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant
Word & Image
Filmpoems
Julian Dobson
17 small acts of ending
Previously featured
Molly Knox
I count:
four cows in the meadows. Made
friends with them this Spring.
Ervin Brown for Day three of our Invisible and Visible Disabilities feature and for the last day of Autism Acceptance month
I ran to the gym instructor, a tall man. He had a bumpkin’s voice and wore a jersey like he played football. He leaned against the school wall with his buddies. I tugged at his arm and pointed at the boy who wouldn’t leave me alone, but he waved me off. This was not the first time I had been bullied for my autism.
I walked past the playground into a wooded area, trekking along the fence line until I reached the opposite end of the schoolyard. This spot is where the yard spilled into the main road. I took one step off the grass and felt a rainbow of delight explode from my chest. I was no longer on school property.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Read and hear it here! ‘Lovely Feet’ by Maureen Jivani is IS&T’s final Pick of the Month for 2023!
‘Lyricism, surreal beauty, authentic capturing of love & loss’
‘A very small thing’ by Ann Heath is the IS&T November 2023 Pick of the Month
‘A tiny thing, an absolute punch to the gut though.’
Read and Hear ‘The Sorry Letter’ by Michelle Diaz, the October 2023 Pick of the Month!
‘It’s so straightforward, so devastating.’
Reviews
Alan Peat In Praise Of… ‘Faunistics: A Collection of Wild Haiku and Illustrations’
In both style and compass Thomas demonstrates a subtle modernity… His poems are steeped in the nature-tradition of the haiku world.
Kayleigh Jayshree In Praise Of … ‘when the flies come’ by Fahad Al-Amoudi
‘a one-of-a-kind pamphlet, with echoing defamiliarisation, poems linked by their causality, and meditations on music, change, and belief’
Silas Curtis reviews Noor Hindi’s ‘Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow’ (2022) and Mohammed el-Kurd’s ‘Rifqa’ (2021) on Holocaust Memorial Day
‘What’s real is us’