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.
Lew Kelly
Fairy Dell Riverside section within Stubbylee Park, Stacksteads. Sophie Lancaster was fatally assaulted in the park in August 2007. The ground is digesting the park in its...
Sergio A. Ortiz
Sailors are the wings of love Sailors are the wings of love, the mirrors of love, the sea is their companion and their eyes are blond the same as love which is as blond as love...
Sam Parr
Before She Went She rests in music all day long Jazz, Opera, Nationalist folk, The closest thing to silence I can find here. If she...
Terry Jones
Stroke Forgetful, in a stroke of genius, you set the dictionary on a shelf in the fridge where it lay all night in dark wordlessness: rosetta of crystal, coomb of roots, the...
Michael Bartholomew-Biggs
Chambers of Horror The good the bad and the ugly I’m imagining a statue of a man in anguish standing in a public square; but I haven’t yet made up the proper patriotic words to chisel...
JD DeHart
Protagonist One day I will wake up and realize just what kind of story I'm in. My words will finally carry weight. I will know how to deal with the villains, real, flesh, natural,...
Martin Bennett
In Campagna (Tor Vergata, Saturday 8 am) Timetables abated till Monday morning, exegeses and formulae on hold, the Faculty celebrates as best it knows its air-conditioning. Via...
Aimée Keeble
1 Here is the subversive heart: Through which rebel blood rolls in secret passages Dark is the meat, opaque and shiny as a horse’s eye Bones fine and curved as tusks steeple a cage for...
Sally Beets
Tree Surgery I was growing tired of trees, already, before the end. Tired of going to nature reserves, forests, woods, with your tree index book, looking up words in Latin: Quercuis...
Christine Whittemore
Writing Conference For Steve M A feathered thud against the windowpane, and there outside, a crimson bird, a cardinal, stunned and faintly trembling on the gravel where it fell hard....
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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