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
Cormac Culkeen
the sun is a
white coin
lifted
from the sea
Maurice Devitt
Yes, you gave us your elegant hands
and capricious smile, but as I make my way
to the chiropodist this morning,
it’s your feet I’m thinking of . . .
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
J.I. Kleinberg
Here,
the rain
collaged
The first
mud
allegory.
The
uncertain
fields
the
gravel
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

J.I. Kleinberg
Here,
the rain
collaged
The first
mud
allegory.
The
uncertain
fields
the
gravel
Filmpoems

Kayleigh Jayshree
The Moth Poem
She sees the little lost one everywhere,
eyes on the dead moths curled on her windowsill…
Previously featured
Cormac Culkeen
the sun is a
white coin
lifted
from the sea
Maurice Devitt
Yes, you gave us your elegant hands
and capricious smile, but as I make my way
to the chiropodist this morning,
it’s your feet I’m thinking of . . .
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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...
Mary Ford Neal is the IS&T Pick of the Month poet for May 2020
One of our voters when asked 'Tell us why this gets your vote' after selecting Mary Ford Neal's poem simply replied 'Jane' and that really sums up this poem of the same name being chosen as May...
Congratulations to Beth Booth whose poem ‘To the Occupier’ is the Pick of the Month for April 2020
There are a myriad of reasons as to why voters chose 'To the Occupier' by Beth Booth as the IS&T Pick of the Month for April 2020 which is a tribute to the many layers in this fine poem. Some...
Reviews
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...
David Clarke reviews ‘A Commonplace’ by Jonathan Davidson
Jonathan Davidson’s A Commonplace is an act of poetic generosity. Fully in the spirit of his entertaining and engaging essay-memoir On Poetry...