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.
We try to keep waiting-time short, but because of increased submissions, the current waiting time between submission and publication is around twelve weeks.
If you have come here looking for more information on our ‘Uprising & Resistance’ Project in conjunction with Spread the Word and Black Beyond Data, please go here.
IS&T Shop
Buy Ink Sweat & Tears Publishing books and pamphlets here.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
Previously featured
Max Wallis
god grant us the serenity / to accept the things we cannot change / the courage to change the / things we can / and the wisdom to know el differencio /
Play, National Poetry Day: Heather Hughes, Laura Webb, Jude Brigley
We searched so long for that clover.
Every time the sun shone we scoured
the fields and woods, running past
the children playing with skipping ropes
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
by Elena Chamberlain is the April 2025 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Queer positivity
It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it.
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Wish Cycle
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
by Elena Chamberlain is the April 2025 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
Queer positivity
It was so moving! I feel a bit numb upon finishing it.
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Wish Cycle
Filmpoems
Katie Beswick
Asemic (adjective): using lines and symbols that look like writing, but do not have any meaning.
Previously featured
Max Wallis
god grant us the serenity / to accept the things we cannot change / the courage to change the / things we can / and the wisdom to know el differencio /
Play, National Poetry Day: Heather Hughes, Laura Webb, Jude Brigley
We searched so long for that clover.
Every time the sun shone we scoured
the fields and woods, running past
the children playing with skipping ropes
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.








