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
Tim Dwyer
Unexpectedly
My neighbour
opens her window
for fresh salty air
Paul Moclair
Their shore leave over,
. . . the spirits of the dead are bid farewell
until that time next year, when ritual
grants them reprieve again.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025. Read and Hear It Here!
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
‘A cry that defies repression and a spirit that refuses to be silenced.’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Ma Yongbo & Romit Berger
I want to remember the way back.
It seems Orion has the compass’ foot,
Swinging his other leg out into the dark
With the confidence of a man who walks on stars.
Filmpoems
Helen Percival
Byte
When it comes to technology, I’m no savvy geek
I’d choose a book over a kindle any day of the week…
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘A Cry’ by Mariam Saidan is the IS&T Pick of the Month for November 2025. Read and Hear It Here!
‘I have lived this. I believe every woman from Iran who reads her words will feel every line of the poems she writes.’
‘A cry that defies repression and a spirit that refuses to be silenced.’
Word & Image
Helen Pletts, Ma Yongbo & Romit Berger
I want to remember the way back.
It seems Orion has the compass’ foot,
Swinging his other leg out into the dark
With the confidence of a man who walks on stars.
Filmpoems
Helen Percival
Byte
When it comes to technology, I’m no savvy geek
I’d choose a book over a kindle any day of the week…
Previously featured
Tim Dwyer
Unexpectedly
My neighbour
opens her window
for fresh salty air
Paul Moclair
Their shore leave over,
. . . the spirits of the dead are bid farewell
until that time next year, when ritual
grants them reprieve again.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘What Part of Me?’ by Jenny Mitchell is IS&T’s May 2024 Pick of the Month
It stopped me in my tracks. I was there by the graveside full of emotion and discomfort and – now I feel disturbed but compassionate
Read and hear April 2024’s Pick of the Month: ‘Limbo’ by Anna Mindel Crawford
‘Deft, dark, brilliantly written’
‘It really captures the idea of ‘the space between’.’
‘A Bad Spell’ by Lynn Valentine is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March. Read it! Listen to it!
‘This poem is pure enchantment. The captivating vocabulary intensely immersive imagery had the hairs on the back of my neck prickled from the outset.’
Reviews
Colin Harrington In Praise of… ‘Knock-knock’ by Owen Lewis.
Knock-knock is a beautiful and honorable portrait of accepting life’s later years, and ending, crafted very gracefully with kindness.
Kayleigh Jayshree reviews ‘Makeover’ by Laurie Bolger
‘Makeover’ is a fun, stirring, and comforting pamphlet, with a variety and uniqueness in tone that makes Laurie Bolger a poet to watch.
Kayleigh Jayshree In Praise Of… ‘Bright Fear’ by Mary Jean Chan
The title of this collection has never felt so poignant. As the years get more and more sweltering, and queer people’s rights become discussed as if it’s a matter of opinion, I feel bright and afraid most of the time.