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
Tim Dwyer
Unexpectedly
My neighbour
opens her window
for fresh salty air
Paul Moclair
Their shore leave over,
. . . the spirits of the dead are bid farewell
until that time next year, when ritual
grants them reprieve again.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Zakia Carpenter-Hall is the Newest IS&T Editing Intern. A Huge Welcome!
Zebra Print
Gridlines project across my body
as I become part of a painting made to scale.
I bloom with tipsy sunflowers, so bright
that I forget their maker was morose.
Word & Image
Emily Coles
clear skies
nightfall,
constellations, spool.
Filmpoems
Brian Johnstone and Steve Smart on Holocaust Memorial Day
Place of Graves
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, a Jewish actress returns to her ancestral shtetl in Eastern Europe to seek evidence of her family’s former life.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Zakia Carpenter-Hall is the Newest IS&T Editing Intern. A Huge Welcome!
Zebra Print
Gridlines project across my body
as I become part of a painting made to scale.
I bloom with tipsy sunflowers, so bright
that I forget their maker was morose.
Word & Image
Emily Coles
clear skies
nightfall,
constellations, spool.
Filmpoems
Brian Johnstone and Steve Smart on Holocaust Memorial Day
Place of Graves
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, a Jewish actress returns to her ancestral shtetl in Eastern Europe to seek evidence of her family’s former life.
Previously featured
Tim Dwyer
Unexpectedly
My neighbour
opens her window
for fresh salty air
Paul Moclair
Their shore leave over,
. . . the spirits of the dead are bid farewell
until that time next year, when ritual
grants them reprieve again.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Read and Hear it Here: Clara-Læïla Laudette’s ‘The purpose’ is our Pick of the Month for September 2025. Huge Congratulations!
‘Quietly devasting poem’
‘Fresh, alive, original, funny’
Read, and Hear, ‘sclerenchyma’ by John Bartlett – the IS&T Pick of the Month for August 2025!
‘Evocative, descriptive, challenging and uplifting’
‘The eloquence of phrase and sentiment and timing is brilliant.’
‘Reimagination of Gravity’ by Paul Chuks is July’s Pick of the Month! Read and Hear it Here.
This poem was as unexpected as a story plot! I loved it.
Wonderful way of observation
Reviews
In Praise of… : Arup K. Chatterjee reviews ‘A Different Story’ by Amlanjyoti Goswami
A Different Story conjures a subject that resists acts of dumping trauma, instead alchemizing them into dry humor and decorous irreverence, sans complacency or arrogance
In Praise Of…: Fathima Zahra reviews ‘this too is a glistening’ by Pratyusha, Jessica J. Lee, Alycia Pirmohamed and Nina Mingya Powles
Moving between immersive and sensory details from their walks, swims and time together, the writing switches between present and past recollections.
In Praise Of…: Setareh Ebrahimi reviews ‘Where the Land Forgets Itself’ by Connor Sansby
Where the Land Forgets Itself is both humorous and subversive. It leaves the reader questioning: What is material? What is reality? It is a fundamental quizzing of everything where nothing is assumed but pain, and beauty.