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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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