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.
We try to keep waiting-time short, but because of increased submissions, the current waiting time between submission and publication is around twelve weeks.
If you have come here looking for more information on our ‘Uprising & Resistance’ Project in conjunction with Spread the Word and Black Beyond Data, please go here.
IS&T Shop
Buy Ink Sweat & Tears Publishing books and pamphlets here.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Rhonda Melanson
The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.
Clive Donovan
I go to the top of the risen hill,
above the trees, beyond the grass,
where only hard ground lives
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Word & Image
Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Word & Image
Janina Diller
collection of three Relicts in chalk flickering in random directions I am para-cosmic body unlearning ...
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Previously featured
Rhonda Melanson
The magic of growing things, its tangible beauty, I did not understand.
Clive Donovan
I go to the top of the risen hill,
above the trees, beyond the grass,
where only hard ground lives
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Vanishing Mother’ by Jenny Mitchell is the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2021
The subject matter is important and is expressed with grace and craft - the pressure of whiteness and what passes for beauty. A comment that encapsulates why Jenny Mitchell’s deeply personal...
Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ Haiku Series is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2020
Beauty and an underlying sadness is what ultimately saw Kashiana Singh’s ‘Origami’ being voted as the Pick of the Month for December 2020 and marks the first time that a haiku sequence has achieved...
Congratulations to Mariam Saidan who is our IS&T Pick of the Month poet for November 2020
'this poem is of a few words but very deep feelings' Voters loved its beauty, its simplicity and its truth and this is why, from a superb group of shortlisted poems, Mariam Saidan's 'Lies' is the...
Reviews
Too Young Too Loud Too Different, an anthology by the writers of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen
Too Young Too Loud Too Different edited by Maisie Lawrence and Rishi Dastidar ISBN 978-1-4721-5506-1 Few collectives have had a profound impact on the contemporary poetry landscape in...
Tom Wilson reviews This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman
This Kilt of Many Colours by David Bleiman Dempsey & Windle ISBN: 9781913329457 This collection of 24 poems is a celebration of multiple identity. It’s also funny, moving, mocking, sad...
Rachael Smart Reviews The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen
The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen Printed Authority Edition, 2021 Limited Edition (Sold Out) The Catalogue of Unsatisfied Desires by Isabella Streffen is an exquisitely...





