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
Francesco Palma
A speck of dust fights with glitter on the floor of my school’s gymnasium. A wrestling match rolling from corner to corner of the green linoleum, invisible to most.
Adam Strickson
He couldn’t play rugby – the oval slithered away
whenever he touched it and he fell in the mud
or more often was pushed with some viciousness.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Katie Beswick
Asemic (adjective): using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Wallpaper’ by Joseph Blythe is the May 2025 Pick of the Month. Hear it read here now!
‘Vivid, precisely imagined, powerful’
‘This poem is the rawest I’ve read in a while.’
Word & Image
Jonathan Edis
Like macabre isobars
the plaster cast lines
of the Old Doctor’s hand
Filmpoems
Katie Beswick
Asemic (adjective): using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning.
Previously featured
Francesco Palma
A speck of dust fights with glitter on the floor of my school’s gymnasium. A wrestling match rolling from corner to corner of the green linoleum, invisible to most.
Adam Strickson
He couldn’t play rugby – the oval slithered away
whenever he touched it and he fell in the mud
or more often was pushed with some viciousness.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘A very small thing’ by Ann Heath is the IS&T November 2023 Pick of the Month
‘A tiny thing, an absolute punch to the gut though.’
Read and Hear ‘The Sorry Letter’ by Michelle Diaz, the October 2023 Pick of the Month!
‘It’s so straightforward, so devastating.’
Tim Relf’s ‘…walking’ is the September 2023 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘it’s upbeat, joyous and just carries you along’
Reviews
Kayleigh Jayshree In Praise Of … ‘when the flies come’ by Fahad Al-Amoudi
‘a one-of-a-kind pamphlet, with echoing defamiliarisation, poems linked by their causality, and meditations on music, change, and belief’
Silas Curtis reviews Noor Hindi’s ‘Dear God, Dear Bones, Dear Yellow’ (2022) and Mohammed el-Kurd’s ‘Rifqa’ (2021) on Holocaust Memorial Day
‘What’s real is us’
Tim Kiely reviews ‘We Saw It All Happen’ by Julian Bishop
Writing successful ecopoetry is harder than it looks.








