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
Louella Lester on National Flash Fiction Day
Keep an Eye Out
That’s what the father said before he went for a nap, but it wasn’t clear who he was actually talking to as he climbed the stairs.
Nick Cooke
If when you go to the barber today
He asks if you’d like him to ‘tidy up your ears’,
Think of all the wildest sprawling vegetation
That will never be tidied, or trimmed, by clippers or shears,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Read and hear it here!
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being...
Word & Image
Uprising & Resistance: Jess Nash
This image is called ‘The chefs’ and refers to those the designated to learn how to slip poison into meals should they ever be captured and appointed as cook. Jess Nash was inspired by references, such as the one below, in the Lloyd’s Lists to Captains being poisoned on the ships and the subsequent undermining of the slaving voyages.
Filmpoems
The Boxer by Tom Stockley
(content warning for mental illness) the boxer by Tom Stockley three months ago, i was stood here wishing more than...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Becky May’s ‘My Swallows’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November. Read and hear it here!
So poignant, beautiful and deep. It is full of light and dark. Haunting and memorable. With the word ‘beautiful’ being...
Word & Image

Uprising & Resistance: Jess Nash
This image is called ‘The chefs’ and refers to those the designated to learn how to slip poison into meals should they ever be captured and appointed as cook. Jess Nash was inspired by references, such as the one below, in the Lloyd’s Lists to Captains being poisoned on the ships and the subsequent undermining of the slaving voyages.
Filmpoems

The Boxer by Tom Stockley
(content warning for mental illness) the boxer by Tom Stockley three months ago, i was stood here wishing more than...
Previously featured
Louella Lester on National Flash Fiction Day
Keep an Eye Out
That’s what the father said before he went for a nap, but it wasn’t clear who he was actually talking to as he climbed the stairs.
Nick Cooke
If when you go to the barber today
He asks if you’d like him to ‘tidy up your ears’,
Think of all the wildest sprawling vegetation
That will never be tidied, or trimmed, by clippers or shears,
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
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