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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Sarah Crowe
they gave me the cold
cap to stop my chemo
hair falling out
Daniel Dean
A beastly man swallowing leeks. His throat
Is dirt, and yet his ghost could sit with Raphael
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Welcome Sofía Masondo, our New Editing Intern
Sofía Masondo is a poet and theatre-maker of Argentine heritage based in London. Her work often explores themes of connection and disconnection between people, place and culture, taking inspiration across different art forms and from an intercultural upbringing.
Word & Image
Giulio R.M. Maffii
1 There is one wondering what he will do he asks himself after passing a sliding door the bus stop in the rush hour in...
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
The Moth Poem
She sees the little lost one everywhere,
eyes on the dead moths curled on her windowsill…
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Welcome Sofía Masondo, our New Editing Intern
Sofía Masondo is a poet and theatre-maker of Argentine heritage based in London. Her work often explores themes of connection and disconnection between people, place and culture, taking inspiration across different art forms and from an intercultural upbringing.
Word & Image

Giulio R.M. Maffii
1 There is one wondering what he will do he asks himself after passing a sliding door the bus stop in the rush hour in...
Filmpoems

Kayleigh Jayshree
The Moth Poem
She sees the little lost one everywhere,
eyes on the dead moths curled on her windowsill…
Previously featured
Sarah Crowe
they gave me the cold
cap to stop my chemo
hair falling out
Daniel Dean
A beastly man swallowing leeks. His throat
Is dirt, and yet his ghost could sit with Raphael
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Lucy Atkinson is the IS&T Pick of the Month poet for August 2020
'Evocative and charming, a modern day folk tale', a comment on Lucy Atkinson's 'Sunspot', perfectly summing up why this fine poem is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2020. Lucy is a...
And Your Pick of the Month for July 2020 is ‘Eagle’ by Joanna Nissel
The importance of family connections prevailed in voters' minds and the wonderful 'Eagle' by Joanna Nissel is our Pick of the Month for July 2020, but it was an extraordinarily tight race with only...
And your Pick of the Month for June 2020 is ‘Tell me’ by Finola Scott
Hope springs eternal... and goes, in part, towards Finola Scott's 'Tell me' emerging as Ink Sweat & Tears' Pick of the Month for June 2020. 'Stunning', 'beautiful' and 'wonderful' were...
Reviews
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...
Tim Kiely Reviews Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi
Portrait of Colossus by Samatar Elmi Flipped Eye Publishing, 2021 ISBN: 9781905233618 £4.00 From the first poem of Samatar Elmi’s debut pamphlet, we know that this Colossus is also imagined as an...
Jane Maker reviews The Bone that Sang by Claire Booker
The Bone that Sang by Claire Booker Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2020 ISBN: 978-1-912876-39-6 £6.00 Bold, inventive, metaphorically rich – Claire Booker’s second poetry pamphlet, The Bone that Sang,...