Ink Sweat & Tears

ALT Image of book cover of 'Children in the Window' showing several young children hanging out of a window. Text 'Healy writes honestly and with humanity' Review by Zoe Brooks

ALT Image: somebody offering a bitten peach surrounded by a yellow border Text: You can eat the evidence The peach parts badly around the stone. You give me the larger half and lick the torn place on your thumb. I have no objection to being alive at this particular table. Mike Anderton

ALT Image of a pair of scissors about to cut a swirl of hair. The deep teal of the background is coming through to give it an ominous feeling. Text: Congratulations! Claire Lynn Out of Place IS&T September 2026 Pick of the Month

ALT Image: an orange surrounded by a reddish brown border Text: Knife on Butter He reached for an orange. His thumb broke the peel. Rind opened beneath his fingers, leaving oil on his knuckles. He separated the fruit and divided the sections between their plates. His wife took one from his. Hensley

ALT Image: wild mushrooms surrounded by a blue border Text: Gathering Mushrooms in the Shadow of a Barn One had a ball of water that magnified the word shiver on its cap, and one had been torn and thrown against the wood, a soft bomb, leaving gills and skin. Anthony Lawrence

ALT Image: a dog sticking his head out the window of a car surrounded by a light grey background Text: Dog's Life Listening to a memoir and discovering the writer’s dog is on the same SSRI as you is an odd feeling; Ewen Glass

ALT Image: a sunset over the ocean Text: Here is a cross Upon the morning mist a divination line, a black bedsheet a poem in dye, words fold onto each other: Hopes, Home, How soon. A yellow T-shirt saying Ole Ole Ole. A pair of warm socks. Raluca David

ALT Image: a tiny bee in a tree Text: The Bee and the Lemon Tree like a lover the bee visits the tree every day on the window ledge the little tree is sky goddess Tony D'Arpino

ALT Image: hospital corridor surrounded by a blue border Text: After a Stillbirth He queues behind a woman holding a tiny baby, a woman holding a tiny baby, a woman holding a tiny baby. He watches the garrulous juggle, baby, Diet Coke, sandwich. They don’t seem to notice him until he stretches out a hand Sam Szanto

ALT Image: fish on a green table surrounded by a yellow border Text: Fish and Chips He’d been on his way to get more fish from the freezer at the end of their garden when he saw us next door: you, scared of heights, stopped Tess Jolly

ALT Image: one cherry on a floral plate surrounded by a light blue border Text: Poison Takes the Place of Food There’s no one in the flat when I come home from school, my dinner in the fridge – poison on a flowered plate, covered with tin foil, surrounded by full shelves of poison. Jenny Mitchell

ALT Image: strawberry candies surrounded by a yellow border Text: A mouthful of stones The sister I don’t have has pockets bulging with silver-foiled chocolate and popping candy, rustling- wrapped strawberry surprises and infinite packets of unopened love hearts. Sarah James/Leavesley

ALT Text: IS&T September 2026 Pick of the Month Sharon Black Anna Bowles Emma Dandy Betty Doyle Claire Lynn Rhian Thomas Image of a path through the bowed trees of early autumn.

ALT Text: The Miller's Tale Mark Wyatt Image: concrete poem in the shape of a windmill.

ALT Image: people in a cinema surrounded by a purple border Text: Cine Reels Our hometown Hollywood never had content warnings. Murder came in piano discords, a hymn swelling to chorus; Andy Humphrey

ALT Image: raindrops falling and rippling Text: My Story Will Be Perfect Rain like it was Biblical. Sidewalk empty, just me and a happy drunk with the weather-hardened look of a rough sleeper sauntering down the hill from Victoria Station in my direction, shouting out his joy to the world. Nigel Pugh

ALT Image: Sun shining through window slats Text: Some of This is True Sun comes out, my body opens all its folding doors, its windows. Sun comes out, my body floats – like feather, cirrus, floats across the grass. Chrissy Banks

ALT Image: succulents up close surrounded by a neon yellow-green border Text: Monocle remember when we lived in the shrubs? stewed in a shared room. its stench. our own ripeness torturing lungs scored elastic. mulika ojikutu-harnett