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
Claire Booker
Never has there been so much interest
in the humble tongue. It peek-a-boos from my mouth
like the little man in a weather clock.
David Waters
When I was a child my mother’s hands were unremarkable. She never got her nails done or anything crazy like that.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
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
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
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
The Moth Poem
She sees the little lost one everywhere,
eyes on the dead moths curled on her windowsill…
Previously featured
Claire Booker
Never has there been so much interest
in the humble tongue. It peek-a-boos from my mouth
like the little man in a weather clock.
David Waters
When I was a child my mother’s hands were unremarkable. She never got her nails done or anything crazy like that.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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...
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...
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...





