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
Jenny Mitchell
What Part of Me? Sun demands a front row seat above the graveyard through the trees when my mother’s placed in soil, surrounded by her friends’ small talk – She must have sent the rays for us. Women in their Sunday best, men in greying suits...
L Kiew
Land has dried its eyes, grown hard
hands and interrogates each arrival:
Where are you from, really from?
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
April 2024’s Pick of the Month. What Will You Choose?
Some fine work once more in our Pick of the Month shortlist for April, a shortlist that was, as ever, almost impossible to choose.
We think you might all have the same problem!
Word & Image
M. P. Pratheesh
Gravity
half winged bird, (it cannot fly)
broken house, (death and dust)
land left behind, (a room of dreams)
half of a stone, (a wound)
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
April 2024’s Pick of the Month. What Will You Choose?
Some fine work once more in our Pick of the Month shortlist for April, a shortlist that was, as ever, almost impossible to choose.
We think you might all have the same problem!
Word & Image
M. P. Pratheesh
Gravity
half winged bird, (it cannot fly)
broken house, (death and dust)
land left behind, (a room of dreams)
half of a stone, (a wound)
Filmpoems
Ilias Tsagas
Free
A yellow patch against the cement of the yard
his beautiful song
the surprise visit
of an escaped bird.
Previously featured
Jenny Mitchell
What Part of Me? Sun demands a front row seat above the graveyard through the trees when my mother’s placed in soil, surrounded by her friends’ small talk – She must have sent the rays for us. Women in their Sunday best, men in greying suits...
L Kiew
Land has dried its eyes, grown hard
hands and interrogates each arrival:
Where are you from, really from?
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
April 2024’s Pick of the Month. What Will You Choose?
Some fine work once more in our Pick of the Month shortlist for April, a shortlist that was, as ever, almost impossible to choose.
We think you might all have the same problem!
‘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.’
‘Burglaries’ by Darren Deeks is IS&T’s February 2024 Pick of the Month. Read and listen to it here!
‘Loss captured beautifully’
‘Curious and unpredictable’
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.