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.
Matt Duggan
The Ghosts of Devon I see the clash of sea Shining rock of dead black Broken bark cracking the weeping shorelines a crumbled gun-turret above the beautiful belly of Torcross;...
Michael Bloor
Happy Birthday, Dear Madame Blavatsky She didn’t think things could get much better. Madame Blavatsky blew out all the candles on...
Danielle Pegg
Right Now Right now would be good. If you don’t mind. I’ve been waiting a while. A typhoon of time. Awful, rolling hills and burning distant meadows. Gut spills and floating...
Taylor Edmonds
Blues I The creature found me in Hensol Forest during my sixteenth summer I didn’t eat anything that wasn’t blueberry flavoured for two weeks and three days It lived in a wood...
Messages: John Kitchen for National Poetry Day
minotaur I monster interred in this endlessness 0f millstone lowest of light & slimy slip snubbles and inchety scrittles they’re poor distraction I wait to feel the air waver from...
Messages: Ruth Z. Deming for National Poetry Day
All Aboard the Death Train She felt nothing on the train, squashed between Uncle Harry in his drooping black trousers and her old Bubby, who moaned aloud in Yiddish, raising her...
Messages: Chris Hardy for National Poetry Day
Mail to the Moon I read your poems and one reminded me of something I had written so I put it in the post. Then reading on I saw the dates and realised you were recently dead...
Messages: Morgaine Merch Lleuad for National Poetry Day
Summer, coming to an end He interrupted me: Look at the bees! I didn’t answer, so he came and crouched where I lay. Look at them, he whispered, going ballistic in the toadflax! And they...
Messages: Jo Burns for National Poetry Day
Conchita reads Pablo Picasso’s letter to God (while he is painting) Your committee for time-keeping has ruled diphtheria a highly unpunctilious event. By consensus you can’t...
Messages: Angela Readman for National Poetry Day
The Woman Who Could Not Say Goodbye He’ll come to hear it soon enough, by the door where a woman can simply put herself out with the milk. The air there is ivory, cool as a...
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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