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.

Roberta Verdant

      Not Atlas The sun says: just keep going. As day follows night, one foot in front of the other. Here’s your sky candle. The sky says: I’ll wrap all around you. Keep you safe,...

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James Bullion

      Picturing Celeriac Homer, as journeyman, knew to unearth it, how the sun’s scarce fingers pulsed the soil for its life. * This creature, pale white, legs folded underneath it,...

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Jeremy Young

        meeting a nazi he was like any other nasty old man - smug - his waistline at his breasts - a wife skittering at his pleasure 'they made me build roads' he laments -...

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M. A. Schaffner

      Wilderness We could do that, but we'd have to shoot the dog, skin the rabbit, kick in the deer skull, fashion an altar from the mushroom fleshed ribs. Spine like a boulder...

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Filippa Bahrke

Sliced (a cut-up poem) you come home from New York City and a love affair you kept on a lowish heat I shot a video the footage is so sick smelling of the fancy, short drinks to where I refrigerate...

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Nate Maye

    Source coming from somewhere, a surge of energy or bit of old theology a worn out textbook or blinking screen we grow to become a name, and then rename ourselves.      ...

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Brooke Nasser

      Outside, A Bird Outside, a bird, separated from the rest perched on a solitary outflung branch, staring at a bright morning moon. The unclouded gibbous starkly visible among...

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Luigi Coppola

      The Crack The crack had spread like an art print of ants, an angry line that seemed to grow each night. It stepped from off the skirting board and danced a zigzag sketch, as if...

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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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