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.
Alison Winch
My Adored Wife is a Wicked Strumpet She renders them so Hot, these Gallants Rakes Libertines – married men who love much to Commit Adulteries than to Divest themselves with Whores. She...
Leyli Salayeva
One does not need… Smell of this city with the hints of bubble perfume Damp morning and the freshly squeezed T-shirt Orange headphones shielding you from the outer world And...
Alison Graham
A beginner’s guide to glassmaking Palms of my hands, I cast my lens in them, my concave – being magnified. Crux and frizz: spin of keratin. and...
Cat Woodward
Border State Or Through a Glass Darkly in the black space is the black face of a slim black boy or girl slender black chest pout of lips a round that might be a testicle black...
Sarah Wedderburn
PECHA-KUCHA-BOY 1 The computer I was using got locked in the art room. It’s not here. But I am. I’m Max. Year 10. I’ve got a list, but no PowerPoint. Sorry. Oh – and the first...
Helen Evans
You if you were a holy person birds would fly to your hand the way they flew to that elderly man on the path by the Serpentine to feed on the pellets and seeds piled up on his...
Angharad Walker
Leda Meets Helen She is fresh on this globe from my globed belly and I am too scared to look. I dread the moment she opens her eyes. She could have his black beads. I unwrap...
Miki Byrne
Pudding We ate our meals with hair-raising intensity. Corked our ears in the joy of savouring, bored by repetition as the iron grip of history held Dad in full throat. His...
Gary W. Hartley
Worker Ant Monologue Alone among thousands millions, maybe We don't even talk if it's not about work If we did we'd say how happy we are Together, not lonely how can you be...
Sarah Passingham
Lineage Then take one end to draw it close around my shoulders. Let it flow like a mountain burn about my neck but leave at least an inch below my lips where speech denies the...
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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