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

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 . . .

David Sapp

Aimless between
Dropping out
Of art school
And absolutely no
Friggin’ money . . .

Debbie Strange

Evacuation
our shutters open

Gareth Writer-Davies

it’s a special kind of empty
the footed earth, saluting the sky

Sam Szanto

It beckons from between plasters and hand cream,
the box bright-white, the lettering green.

Previously featured

Adam Horovitz

We cannot update you yet, other than to say we are caught
in a doldrums between stations and that your father can wait
as he has been waiting these past two years . . .

read more

Recent Prose

Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

Cheryl Snell

I am all hair, glittering with diamond-glass. A forehead streaked with blood, rubies and roses crisscrossing the tangerine flaps of a ripped collar.

Recent Haiku

Diane Webster

lightning flashes
everyone stands
still

Chen-ou Liu on International Haiku Poetry Day

end-of-day catch
our wicker basket full
of salmon sunset

Deborah Karl-Brandt

With every book I sell, with every piece of clothing I give away . . .

Clare Bryden

how do I begin?

R.C. Thomas

The Universe dreamed I’d come to its restaurant. I needed to pass the time before my train home.

News

Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature

Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature

‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’

– Holly Winter-Hughes

Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant

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Word & Image

Ilias Tsagas

Ilias Tsagas

  Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English as a second language. His poems have appeared in journals like:...

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Filmpoems

Gravitational Lensing

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3Okx29x9s&ab_channel=InkSweat%26Tears     Gravitational Lensing...

read more

Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day

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 . . .

David Sapp

Aimless between
Dropping out
Of art school
And absolutely no
Friggin’ money . . .

Debbie Strange

Evacuation
our shutters open

Gareth Writer-Davies

it’s a special kind of empty
the footed earth, saluting the sky

Sam Szanto

It beckons from between plasters and hand cream,
the box bright-white, the lettering green.

News

Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature

Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature

‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’

– Holly Winter-Hughes

Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant

read more

Word & Image

Ilias Tsagas

Ilias Tsagas

  Ilias Tsagas is a Greek poet writing in English as a second language. His poems have appeared in journals like:...

read more

Filmpoems

Gravitational Lensing

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ew3Okx29x9s&ab_channel=InkSweat%26Tears     Gravitational Lensing...

read more

Previously featured

Adam Horovitz

We cannot update you yet, other than to say we are caught
in a doldrums between stations and that your father can wait
as he has been waiting these past two years . . .

read more

Recent Prose

Paul Goodman

They approach in hungry morning light, treading the path to the ridge and the row of giant’s teeth grown crooked with the ages

Neil Weiner

Chad, an aspiring author, sank into his easy chair and drifted into a
reverie.

Stephanie Aspin on ‘Why Words Help’ for Mental Health Awareness Week

Writing is both a way of making life more liveable and of making ourselves more whole. Words have a being-ness: when we write poetry, we tap into a network of resonances.

Cheryl Snell

I am all hair, glittering with diamond-glass. A forehead streaked with blood, rubies and roses crisscrossing the tangerine flaps of a ripped collar.

Recent Haiku

Diane Webster

lightning flashes
everyone stands
still

Chen-ou Liu on International Haiku Poetry Day

end-of-day catch
our wicker basket full
of salmon sunset

Deborah Karl-Brandt

With every book I sell, with every piece of clothing I give away . . .

Clare Bryden

how do I begin?

R.C. Thomas

The Universe dreamed I’d come to its restaurant. I needed to pass the time before my train home.

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