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
Steven Taylor
A very long time ago
Stephen Fry’s godfather, the
Justice, Sir Oliver Popplewell
Who chaired the inquiry
Into the Bradford City
Amirah Al Wassif
Beneath my armpit lives a Sinbad the size of a thumb.
His imagination feeds through an umbilical cord tied to my womb.
Now and then, people hear him speaking through a giant microphone—
Singing,
Cracking jokes,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
A Warm Welcome to Sairah Ahsan, IS&T’s Newest Editing Intern!
The Heart and the Stomach
Fists of smooth muscle curl in sleep
clutch at hunger.
Sticky with a sick feeling
they anticipate the winter tundra
of empty cupboards…
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Evacuation
our shutters open
Filmpoems
Helen Percival
Byte
When it comes to technology, I’m no savvy geek
I’d choose a book over a kindle any day of the week…
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
A Warm Welcome to Sairah Ahsan, IS&T’s Newest Editing Intern!
The Heart and the Stomach
Fists of smooth muscle curl in sleep
clutch at hunger.
Sticky with a sick feeling
they anticipate the winter tundra
of empty cupboards…
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
Evacuation
our shutters open
Filmpoems
Helen Percival
Byte
When it comes to technology, I’m no savvy geek
I’d choose a book over a kindle any day of the week…
Previously featured
Steven Taylor
A very long time ago
Stephen Fry’s godfather, the
Justice, Sir Oliver Popplewell
Who chaired the inquiry
Into the Bradford City
Amirah Al Wassif
Beneath my armpit lives a Sinbad the size of a thumb.
His imagination feeds through an umbilical cord tied to my womb.
Now and then, people hear him speaking through a giant microphone—
Singing,
Cracking jokes,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
by Elena Chamberlain is the April 2025 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Queer positivity
It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it.
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Reviews
In Praise Of…: Annie Brechin reviews ‘Divorcee Disco Music’ by Christopher Crawford
What is being questioned? Many things: relationships, reality, death, the society that binds us and fractures us at once.
In Praise of.. : Alison Hramiak Reviews ‘Songs For Wo(Men)’ by Mugabi Byenka
‘a journey which bleeds through the book, and which holds such a powerful and moving tale’
In Praise of: Carolyn Oulton reviews ‘The Horse And The Girl’ and ‘Maiden Mother Crone’ by Madeleine White
‘Both collections speak to the tradition of the quest narrative, as the female speaker draws on nature and spiritual histories to navigate 21st century problems.’








