Welcome to the Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Archive
This archive is formed from all the posts from that original Ink Sweat & Tears website, it now consists of everything we have published up to the end of 2019. IS&T was founded by Salt author Charles Christian in 2007 as a platform for new poetry and short prose, and experimental work in digital media. Charles ran the site single-handedly, publishing new work every day till 2010, when now sole editor, poet and artist Helen Ivory came on board as Deputy Editor. The Ink Sweat & Tears website continues to run and can be found here.
You can either click on the poems below which run from most recent to oldest, or you can search for particular poem or poet, there is also a list of all the categories to click through. From Prose & Poetry to Words and Images, Haibun, Tanka, Haiku & Haiga, in addition we have all of the Poems of the month and Poetry picks, old blogs and news, award nominated, reviews and interviews.
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Prose and poetry
Poems and prose published on the website from start to finish.
Sue Finch
The Red Shoes Never danced with a boy. Wanted to. Couldn’t flirt and risk the invitation. No rhythm. No chance. I imagined the red shoes would do the trick. Too impatient to...
Matt Black
getting to the gig car full of poets, babbling and quibbling, noone wearing seatbelts because of the metaphor, noone knows where they’re going because of the metaphor, one has to be home by...
Purabi Bhattacharya
Dayclose An ill-willed summer is not leaving us any time soon You like your land slipping into a desert scalp, bruised in peel off whatever stands between you- the poser and the...
Rebecca Gethin
Not yet a ghost A light still operates inside the phone box with its red paint flaking off the grid of panes. A corona of moths searches for an entrance. Inside, a shroud of cobwebs ...
Kate Noakes
Into L’Orangerie I’m not ready to yield to the notion of garden chalky-soft and muted, a green mat so bright in the sun it silvers, jewels scribble flowers life-size, bold,...
Andrew Button
Three Giraffes Passing them in my car on the way to work, I saw three giraffes in the rush hour jungle. The tallest staring straight ahead, the middle one turning traffic...
Stephen Nelson
The Sun Spear You are pierced, it's true, and the sun has seared your child flesh; but since we share a flame, and since we spin like spirits in a ceilidh of flames, I am split...
Paul Little
‘If it’s New Daffodils to be Dying in May’ Taking online lessons in how to best greet that certain someone if bumping into them again didn’t prepare me at all for someone just looking quite...
Charlie Baylis
Saturday morning Preciosa hangs her baby on the wind, the father, look: smoke is rising from the mezquita, the nuns walk by the children's cemetery, bless the little coffins,...
Rebecca Tantony
The Voice, The Sound, The Song England's education secretary Nicky Morgan has rejected MPs' calls to make sex-and-relationship education compulsory in all schools – BBC News,...
Poetry Picks
Our favourite poems and ‘best of’ chosen from each month between 2007 and 2019
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Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga
Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga reviously published on the website.
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12 Days of Christmas
All the poems from our regular 12 days of Christmas feature.
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Words & Images
Words with images previously published on the website.
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Blogs and news
Blogs and archived news from 2007 to 2020.
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Reviews
Archived reviews from 2007 to 2020.
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Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
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