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
Clara Howell
The way a halved peach breathes, then rots
from the inside out.
Luigi Coppola
Out of ten bars, by the fifth, half of us had flickered
out and by this ninth one, it ended up just him
and me. A matchstick balanced on a stool, he sat
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Rachael Clyne’s ‘Homeland’ is the June 2025 Pick of the Month! Read and hear it here.
‘Diaspora dialogue; the place and the displaced’
‘Thought provoking. A rich, reflective poem that carries itself well.’
‘The way the land responds to human tragedy’
Word & Image
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
they spread over March like
Tama Impala, lost in it
and grates that cannot block the city
Filmpoems
Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
CW: flashing lights
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Rachael Clyne’s ‘Homeland’ is the June 2025 Pick of the Month! Read and hear it here.
‘Diaspora dialogue; the place and the displaced’
‘Thought provoking. A rich, reflective poem that carries itself well.’
‘The way the land responds to human tragedy’
Word & Image
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş
they spread over March like
Tama Impala, lost in it
and grates that cannot block the city
Filmpoems
Pariolodo for World Poetry Day
I Am a Poet
Unruly, rebellious like a song of protest
History unfurls at the tip of my pen
I am breaking out of the matrix
This piece is a chain reaction
CW: flashing lights
Previously featured
Clara Howell
The way a halved peach breathes, then rots
from the inside out.
Luigi Coppola
Out of ten bars, by the fifth, half of us had flickered
out and by this ninth one, it ended up just him
and me. A matchstick balanced on a stool, he sat
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Read, and hear, ‘Pomegranate’ by Sue Burge, the IS&T Pick of the Month for January 2024
‘It is so spare – every word used to the max – beautiful, slow, confident, visceral words. I love it!’
Read and hear it here! ‘Lovely Feet’ by Maureen Jivani is IS&T’s final Pick of the Month for 2023!
‘Lyricism, surreal beauty, authentic capturing of love & loss’
‘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.’
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.








