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
Play, National Poetry Day: Heather Hughes, Laura Webb, Jude Brigley
We searched so long for that clover.
Every time the sun shone we scoured
the fields and woods, running past
the children playing with skipping ropes
Play, For National Poetry Day: Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Dormandy, Lee Fraser
10 Children dart in the dark, screamers
streaming sweets and neon, their parents
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
they spread over March like
Tama Impala, lost in it
and grates that cannot block the city
Filmpoems
Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Elontra Hall Joins the IS&T Internship Programme. Welcome!
Elontra Hall is a Black-American poet based in Northampton.
Word & Image

Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
they spread over March like
Tama Impala, lost in it
and grates that cannot block the city
Filmpoems

Rachel Tennant
Slipping between acidic
and calcareous, crossing
the divide of counties
between childhood and now.
Previously featured
Play, National Poetry Day: Heather Hughes, Laura Webb, Jude Brigley
We searched so long for that clover.
Every time the sun shone we scoured
the fields and woods, running past
the children playing with skipping ropes
Play, For National Poetry Day: Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Dormandy, Lee Fraser
10 Children dart in the dark, screamers
streaming sweets and neon, their parents
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘When young boys go missing’ by Abu Ibrahim is the Pick of the Month for July 2024. Read and hear it here!
‘The poem speaks truth’
‘I’m looking through a lattice of magnolia’ by Robin Houghton is the June 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here.
‘Beautiful interweaving of nature and human concerns’
‘What Part of Me?’ by Jenny Mitchell is IS&T’s May 2024 Pick of the Month
It stopped me in my tracks. I was there by the graveside full of emotion and discomfort and – now I feel disturbed but compassionate
Reviews
In Praise Of…: Chaucer Cameron reviews ‘Love the Albatross’ by Deborah Harvey
Estrangement is a complex, brutal place, both to find yourself in and to inhabit. It’s also a dangerous place to write from, being fraught with exposure, stigma, judgment and misunderstanding; and...
In Praise of… David Pollard on ‘The Whole Island’ by Simon Maddrell
‘There are some diamonds that are mostly black because their unique crystalline structure absorbs most of the light. Change your perspective as you look at them and it seems that different parts flash with different qualities of light shrouded in shadows.
This pamphlet is a necklace made of such jewellery.’
In Praise of… Claire Dyer’s ‘The Adjustments’ by Vic Pickup
‘The poems within speak of multiple losses, grief – historic and new – and yet, the reader emerges from the pages with a fullness, a sense of calm completion – the sum of their own adjustments perhaps?’