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.
We try to keep waiting-time short, but because of increased submissions, the current waiting time between submission and publication is around twelve weeks.
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Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
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Jaden Pierce
Bath Soak me in an acid bath As I seek to test my limits For pain I do not fear And want to conquer Like the great warriors who have Come before me Performing magnificent feats Showing mind over muscle Sitting in the midst of a blaze Yet calm and...
Jamie Woods
PTSD / IET Guidance Notes for Registered Electricians Too many residual memory devices Trip again, over and over Breaking circuits with synaptic transmission Neurons activating Molotov cocktails She says: Love yourself Be kind to...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Critique, Dissent, and Resistance: A Suite of Poems for the Jubilee
At its height, the British empire was the largest in history, and for over a century, was the foremost global...
Word & Image
Louise Warren & Jane McAllister
North Sea Frequency Louise Warren has published A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo with...
Video Channel
Hear Me, Hear My Silence Poetry Special: Lee Campbell
Let Rip: The Beautiful Game From the live euphoria of football, to homosexual desire and the...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Critique, Dissent, and Resistance: A Suite of Poems for the Jubilee
At its height, the British empire was the largest in history, and for over a century, was the foremost global...
Word & Image

Louise Warren & Jane McAllister
North Sea Frequency Louise Warren has published A Child’s Last Picture Book of the Zoo with...
Video Channel

Hear Me, Hear My Silence Poetry Special: Lee Campbell
Let Rip: The Beautiful Game From the live euphoria of football, to homosexual desire and the...
Previously featured
Jaden Pierce
Bath Soak me in an acid bath As I seek to test my limits For pain I do not fear And want to conquer Like the great warriors who have Come before me Performing magnificent feats Showing mind over muscle Sitting in the midst of a blaze Yet calm and...
Jamie Woods
PTSD / IET Guidance Notes for Registered Electricians Too many residual memory devices Trip again, over and over Breaking circuits with synaptic transmission Neurons activating Molotov cocktails She says: Love yourself Be kind to...
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Listen to Subitha Baghirathan’s ‘Sari shop, Easton’ our the IS&T November Pick of the Month.
Beautiful, evocative and hits all my senses The words ‘evocative’ and ‘beautiful’ were used over and over again to describe Subitha Baghirathan's ‘Sari shop, Easton’ and it is for this reason...
Listen to Julie Stevens’ Poem ‘Insomnia’ our IS&T October 2021 Pick of the Month
Speaks directly and painfully, sharp images ‘Insomnia’ by Julie Stevens spoke to many voters, whether it was an anguish experienced only occasionally or bound up and endemic to a chronic...
Listen to Ofem Ubi’s ‘and so it goes…’ the September 2021 Pick of the Month
He has such a powerful way with words. An innate talent. Voters responded to the truth of Ofem Ubi’s poem, its simplicity, relatability and finesse; it for these reasons and more that 'and so it...
Reviews
Owen Lewis reviews ‘Bread without Butter Bara heb fenyn’ by Wendy French
From the Welsh Diaspora Bread without Butter Bara heb Fenyn explores the cultural and emotional heritage of poet...
Carole Bromley reviews ‘My Name is Mercy’ by Martin Figura
I was intrigued when I saw on social media that Martin Figura was regularly staying in a haunted inn in Salisbury during lockdown. I used to live there, taught at the boys’ grammar school and...
Claire Booker reviews ‘History of Forgetfulness’ by Shahé Mankerian
Beirut, 1975. I remember the news bulletins, the disbelief that anyone, let alone children, could survive the horrors of a bloody civil war. But they can, and Shahé Mankerian’s...