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
Esha Volvoikar
The earth cracks and we are left
with the same shared moon.
She peers through my lattice window
and hides behind your city’s smoke.
Violeta Zlatareva
The neighbor is a devout woman.
She bakes bread and lights candles
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image
Deborah Nash
Cross Hot Burns
Filmpoems
Moira McPartlin
Magnificence
For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer
What jewelled gifts are these,
spliced and stacked on platters
of smeared glass?
A universe of micro.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News

Bob King is IS&T’s February 2025 Pick of the Month Poet. Read the poem and hear it here!
‘Richly written human experience’
‘The gut punching wisdom of the last line feels like something I will think of often in my life.’
Word & Image

Deborah Nash
Cross Hot Burns
Filmpoems

Moira McPartlin
Magnificence
For Spike Walker, Photomicrographer
What jewelled gifts are these,
spliced and stacked on platters
of smeared glass?
A universe of micro.
Previously featured
Esha Volvoikar
The earth cracks and we are left
with the same shared moon.
She peers through my lattice window
and hides behind your city’s smoke.
Violeta Zlatareva
The neighbor is a devout woman.
She bakes bread and lights candles
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘Confessions to a neurologist’ by Ann Grant is the IS&T June 2023 Pick of the Month. Read, and Hear Ann Read It, Here!
‘Beautifully confessional, devastatingly true.’
‘Sometimes, a Man Could Cry’ by Matthew M.C. Smith is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2023. Read and Hear it Here.
‘Striking, moving imagist poem!’
‘When an albatross crash-lands in a dream’ by Deborah Harvey is the IS&T April 2023 Pick of the Month. Read and hear it here!
‘It was the poem that kept coming back’
Reviews
In Praise of: Charlie Baylis reviews ‘suddenly, it’s now’ by Blossom Hibbert
suddenly, it's now by Blossom Hibbert Leafe Press, £7.00 (28 pages of poetry) suddenly, it’s now is a fun, dazzling and provocative debut pamphlet from a bright green voice in poetry. Blossom...
Helen Moore reviews ‘Federal Gods’ by Clare Saponia
Federal Gods by Clare Saponia Palewell Press (112 pages of poetry) Clare Saponia’s reputation for radically engaged poetry, characterised by a boldly provocative and satirical style, was already...
Clare Morris reviews ‘Coalescence’ by Tim King
Coalescence by Tim King Lulu Press (230 pages of poetry) Tim King can always be relied on to provide the perfect poetry pick-me-up that every writer longs for. ‘Coalescence’ is a glorious...