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
Raluca David
You said you’d never die
here.
Tony D’Arpino
like a lover
the bee visits the tree
every day
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Patterned with cows’ by Jackson is IS&T’s May 2026 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘The mixture of love, longing, nostalgia and its undercurrent of exasperation perfectly sums up the emotions involved in dealing with the loss and attendant tasks and duties when our parents die.’
Word & Image
Kathleen Bryson
I am the dreaming herpetogaster chimera and
I am part-and-parcel of the impossible animals project.
Filmpoems
Erin Coppin and Dr Jo Scott
British Columbia, Canada, 2021: We are surviving the vagaries of climate change
1. Heat dome: I’ve had to water my plants two times a day so they don’t die.
2. Five hundred and ninety-five people died as a direct result of extreme heat.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Patterned with cows’ by Jackson is IS&T’s May 2026 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘The mixture of love, longing, nostalgia and its undercurrent of exasperation perfectly sums up the emotions involved in dealing with the loss and attendant tasks and duties when our parents die.’
Word & Image
Kathleen Bryson
I am the dreaming herpetogaster chimera and
I am part-and-parcel of the impossible animals project.
Filmpoems
Erin Coppin and Dr Jo Scott
British Columbia, Canada, 2021: We are surviving the vagaries of climate change
1. Heat dome: I’ve had to water my plants two times a day so they don’t die.
2. Five hundred and ninety-five people died as a direct result of extreme heat.
Previously featured
Raluca David
You said you’d never die
here.
Tony D’Arpino
like a lover
the bee visits the tree
every day
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.. : Alison Hramiak Reviews ‘Songs For Wo(Men)’ by Mugabi Byenka
‘a journey which bleeds through the book, and which holds such a powerful and moving tale’
In Praise of: Carolyn Oulton reviews ‘The Horse And The Girl’ and ‘Maiden Mother Crone’ by Madeleine White
‘Both collections speak to the tradition of the quest narrative, as the female speaker draws on nature and spiritual histories to navigate 21st century problems.’
In Praise of: Jean Atkin reviews ‘Janus’ by Catherine Ayres
“There’s a generosity about this collection, laid right alongside the vulnerability that Ayres chooses to share with us.’