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
Daniel Hill
On her first day home, she took
to plucking the sky with tweezers—
latched on to clouds and waited
Sheila Saunders
Which is the subject?
Limp-leaved yucca
reluctantly dying,
the foreground figure
in its stony pot?
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Love Song for Snow’ By Michelle Diaz is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2025. With Audio!
I love the whimsical way this develops like a slowly falling snowflake
The snow is always real, tangible, down to the pleasure of making a snow angel and the numbness of hands; the sense of personal loss runs like a watermark through it; and the grief we are beginning to feel for a planet we are overheating haunts us with its presence too.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
winterberry
the first holiday
alone
Filmpoems
Sarah Raybould
dad would take us sledging on the hills behind our house,
we’d ride the sleeping-slopes of
/ round-back / giants,
flushed with fever-thrill and
when he capsized
we / lurched /
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Love Song for Snow’ By Michelle Diaz is the IS&T Pick of the Month for December 2025. With Audio!
I love the whimsical way this develops like a slowly falling snowflake
The snow is always real, tangible, down to the pleasure of making a snow angel and the numbness of hands; the sense of personal loss runs like a watermark through it; and the grief we are beginning to feel for a planet we are overheating haunts us with its presence too.
Word & Image
Debbie Strange
winterberry
the first holiday
alone
Filmpoems
Sarah Raybould
dad would take us sledging on the hills behind our house,
we’d ride the sleeping-slopes of
/ round-back / giants,
flushed with fever-thrill and
when he capsized
we / lurched /
Previously featured
Daniel Hill
On her first day home, she took
to plucking the sky with tweezers—
latched on to clouds and waited
Sheila Saunders
Which is the subject?
Limp-leaved yucca
reluctantly dying,
the foreground figure
in its stony pot?
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘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’
‘Something about this’ by Stephen Keeler is the Pick of the Month for November 2024. Read and hear it here!
I love how his poetry replicates the fragmentary and impressionistic nature of memory… and then there’s the heart-breaking ending.
Read and Hear ‘The Last Person on Earth’ by Carole Bromley: IS&T’s September 2024 Pick of the Month!
‘Excellent title, and it all comes together in those final lines. The smell of the aftershave that couldn’t be washed off…’
Reviews
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...
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.’