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
Gordon Scapens
Hid some between hearing
and interpretation,
made a new alphabet.
Hid some between wit
and pedantic speeches
to fool anyone listening.
Gary Jude
The mandibles look like the tusks
of some gigantic bull elephant bagged
by hunters posing for a photograph
in pith helmets next to a tent
and a wind up phonograph.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
News
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature
‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’
– Holly Winter-Hughes
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant
Word & Image
Charlotte Holm
Little Kit
Filmpoems
Csilla Toldy for Earth Day
My head is the earth,
my skin the air
dusk is my hair.
Featured Poetry/Prose of the Day
News
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Feature
‘I used to have a romantic notion that my best material had to be handwritten, but with the demands of life, in reality I edit most of my poetry on my phone’
– Holly Winter-Hughes
Cheltenham Poetry Festival Logo credit: Jon Tarrant
Word & Image
Charlotte Holm
Little Kit
Filmpoems
Csilla Toldy for Earth Day
My head is the earth,
my skin the air
dusk is my hair.
Previously featured
Gordon Scapens
Hid some between hearing
and interpretation,
made a new alphabet.
Hid some between wit
and pedantic speeches
to fool anyone listening.
Gary Jude
The mandibles look like the tusks
of some gigantic bull elephant bagged
by hunters posing for a photograph
in pith helmets next to a tent
and a wind up phonograph.
Recent Prose
Recent Haiku
Picks of the Month
‘A Bad Spell’ by Lynn Valentine is the IS&T Pick of the Month for March
‘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!
‘Loss captured beautifully’
‘Curious and unpredictable’
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!’
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.