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
Taḋg Paul
An algorithm guides me through the keys
Each stanza nested in a formal loop
Mat Riches
Hey kid, this won’t mean that much to you yet,
but I didn’t taste my first proper curry
till at least twenty-one . . .
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Abertawe’ by Andy Breckenridge is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2024. Read and hear it here.
‘flowing beautiful lines of emotion’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
//There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly.
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
Seaglass, Flint and Jasper
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Abertawe’ by Andy Breckenridge is the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2024. Read and hear it here.
‘flowing beautiful lines of emotion’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
//There is a new star in the eastern sky tonight, spilling fourteen prongs of light. I feel the first flutter in my belly.
Filmpoems
Kayleigh Jayshree
Seaglass, Flint and Jasper
Previously featured
Taḋg Paul
An algorithm guides me through the keys
Each stanza nested in a formal loop
Mat Riches
Hey kid, this won’t mean that much to you yet,
but I didn’t taste my first proper curry
till at least twenty-one . . .
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
And our Pick of the Month for September 2020 is ‘The Anatomy of Boys’ by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan's poem 'The Anatomy of Boys' spoke to so many, and it is for this reason that this 'fascinating' 'beautiful' and 'inspiring' poem is the IS&T Pick of the month for...
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...
Reviews
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,...
Zoë Wells reviews Mither Tongue by Jidi Majia
Mither Tongue – A love letter to translation Parallel translations always bring a certain kind of joy. I have fond memories of reading Pablo Neruda for the first time, original text on the left,...
Carla Scarano D’Antonio reviews ‘The Magpie Almanack’ by Simon Williams
An original approach to the description and contemplation of life, nature and universal stories...



