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
James McDermott
if samsara’s concrete please don’t come back
as black jackal for I live in Norwich
nor spineless worm as I don’t have a lawn
Cath Holland
The entry fee for the jumble sale at the homeless mission costs 20 pence or a pair of men’s jeans. I don’t have a pair of jeans with me would you believe. My quiet piece of silver plinks into the plastic bucket, and I reflect what you can’t get for 20 pence these days.
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
Steph Morris
Eupatorium maculatum Acer pseudoplatanus Quercus robur About the plant...
Filmpoems
Lesley Curwen
‘There are storms on the way…’
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
Steph Morris
Eupatorium maculatum Acer pseudoplatanus Quercus robur About the plant...
Filmpoems
Lesley Curwen
‘There are storms on the way…’
Previously featured
James McDermott
if samsara’s concrete please don’t come back
as black jackal for I live in Norwich
nor spineless worm as I don’t have a lawn
Cath Holland
The entry fee for the jumble sale at the homeless mission costs 20 pence or a pair of men’s jeans. I don’t have a pair of jeans with me would you believe. My quiet piece of silver plinks into the plastic bucket, and I reflect what you can’t get for 20 pence these days.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
‘Arrival’ by Rosie Jackson is the Pick of the Month for January 2025. Read and hear it here.
‘Stripped of sentimentality, raw and beautiful.’
‘Authentic, deceptively simple and relatable’
‘A Town of Shadows’ by Joe Williams is the final Pick of the Month for 2024. Read and Hear it Here!
‘Evocative portrait of a mining town. Killer last line’
‘Clear structure, directness, chilling emotion’
Reviews
In Praise Of…Dennis Tomlinson reviews ‘Window’ by Yuko Minamikawa Adams
This poet has a talent for transforming the familiar world through the power of her imagination and, moreover, doing so in plain, down-to-earth language. Things are personified and persons are thingified, as in the poem ‘Ironing’, which reaches far beyond the ordinary domestic chore of its title.
In Praise Of…: Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary reviews ‘High Jump as Icarus Story’ by Gustav Parker Hibbett
As readers, we understand that the poems build towards liberation. Gustav Parker Hibbitt sees the high jump as a place to embrace their femininity, like “Ice Princess”, where they are “floral”, a “queen wear[ing] feathers”.
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...