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
Juliet Humphreys
Though I am not a painter
this is to be a portrait
of my parents and my sister.
Julian Dobson
You too I guess
have studied the surviving starlings
as they swoop and whistle
by the snack trailer at Moorfoot
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Read and Hear it Here: Clara-Læïla Laudette’s ‘The purpose’ is our Pick of the Month for September 2025. Huge Congratulations!
‘Quietly devasting poem’
‘Fresh, alive, original, funny’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Read and Hear it Here: Clara-Læïla Laudette’s ‘The purpose’ is our Pick of the Month for September 2025. Huge Congratulations!
‘Quietly devasting poem’
‘Fresh, alive, original, funny’
Word & Image
Oormila Vijayakrishnan Prahlad
A lacquer table, gloss under fingertips. A raised stage with dark linen. A young woman smiles with her hand-held harp, its nine strings glistening. The room swells with the cadence of her pearly notes. Beneath the pendant lights—a vision of serenity.
Filmpoems
Éloïse O’Dwyer-Armary
Leeks ...
Previously featured
Juliet Humphreys
Though I am not a painter
this is to be a portrait
of my parents and my sister.
Julian Dobson
You too I guess
have studied the surviving starlings
as they swoop and whistle
by the snack trailer at Moorfoot
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.