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
Play, For National Poetry Day: Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Dormandy, Lee Fraser
10 Children dart in the dark, screamers
streaming sweets and neon, their parents
Play, for National Poetry Day: MD Bier, Catherine Sweeney, Rachel Burns
Those hot hot summer days. Hair curling against sticky clammy foreheads.
Pony tails, pig tails or braids. Keep it off our neck and backs.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi
Fog
a fog descends
a sulphur smell
swallows the house across the street
Filmpoems
Tamsyn Challenger
Fret
Soft droplets form on protrusions
Floating legs in front
A saline nest laps around
flesh traps underneath
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
‘Annette’s Ode’ by Pamilerin Jacob is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March 2025!
‘Succinct, raw, moving.’
‘the necessity of each line, and the harmony of all’
Word & Image
Salil Chaturvedi
Fog
a fog descends
a sulphur smell
swallows the house across the street
Filmpoems
Tamsyn Challenger
Fret
Soft droplets form on protrusions
Floating legs in front
A saline nest laps around
flesh traps underneath
Previously featured
Play, For National Poetry Day: Suzanna Fitzpatrick, Charlotte Dormandy, Lee Fraser
10 Children dart in the dark, screamers
streaming sweets and neon, their parents
Play, for National Poetry Day: MD Bier, Catherine Sweeney, Rachel Burns
Those hot hot summer days. Hair curling against sticky clammy foreheads.
Pony tails, pig tails or braids. Keep it off our neck and backs.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
Read and hear it here: Rosie Garland’s ‘Poem inspired by an imaginary painting by Leonora Carrington’ IS&T’s Summer 2023 Pick!
‘Such vibrant imagery, and sense of movement’
‘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!’
Reviews
In Praise of: Kevin Densley reviews ‘crows at dusk’ by James Roderick Burns
In Burns’ crows at dusk, we have an impressive haiku collection of considerable intelligence and power, written by a person with a splendid eye for detail.
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...








