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
Gary Akroyde
We searched for it
through the tarmac in every rain-bruised sky
in dark Pennine shadows where great mills
spewed out ringlets of ghost-grey fog
Nathan Curnow
I like to think it’s a story about himself and Einstein
floating in zero gravity, Albert sailing through the capsule
toward his drifting pipe, Brian playing We Will Rock You—
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Read and Hear ‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley: IS&T’s September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
a new year
we will meet again
on the other side
Filmpoems
Julian Dobson
17 small acts of ending
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Read and Hear ‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley: IS&T’s September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
a new year
we will meet again
on the other side
Filmpoems
Julian Dobson
17 small acts of ending
Previously featured
Gary Akroyde
We searched for it
through the tarmac in every rain-bruised sky
in dark Pennine shadows where great mills
spewed out ringlets of ghost-grey fog
Nathan Curnow
I like to think it’s a story about himself and Einstein
floating in zero gravity, Albert sailing through the capsule
toward his drifting pipe, Brian playing We Will Rock You—
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
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...
Rebecca Lowe reviews ‘The Ear of Eternity’ by Xavier Panades I Blas
Xavier Panades i Blas, a Catalan-born poet now living in Wales, is passionate about two things: The first is his Catalan language and culture. The second is his writing, which comes...





