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.
Tony Rickaby
Tony Rickaby’s current practice reflects on walks around South London, where he lives. Recently he has written for Litro Magazine, Stepaway Magazine, ken*again,...
Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozabal
Serious Road I am driving on the serious road. I have never seen it joyful; A blown up tire here, a broken bumper there, and smashed up cars everywhere. You could kill yourself or...
Tom Wiggins
Emily Dickinson's Wardrobe of Ghostly White Dresses On the second day of the festival you wear a white dress and sandals and a plaster around your toe and you are perfect and this is...
Abigail George
When light poured into me at the swimming pool There was a sweetness to the day. The horizon a blue harsh line. I looked for stars but there were none. For some reason they were always...
Claire Sexton
I have no fear now After two years with the shrink I consider myself ‘upgraded’, not cured. I have more cogs in the toolbox; more spanners, and other useful tools. And I know how to use them;...
A collaborative poem from Julia Webb and Maggie Mackay
Mothers I dream you alive, that I wake to find you flying round my bed. I am not surprised, though I remember your bulk, your papery skin, as if it were only yesterday. This new alive...
Johanna Boal
Gloves on My 40th Birthday At the beauty parlour, my hands were made such a fuss cuticles like dark clouds pushed back see the half polished moon and those white dots the stars, my...
Gillian Mellor
The Upstairs Bathroom commanded a view of The Backs: the allotments, the alleyways, the council estate. Here she washed away more than just dirt. (Countless spiders slid by -...
Jonathan Beale
Those Night Drivers As they stride barefoot across the night With the dust of their lives between their toes. Left at home with their generations’ dream. Their sweat drips...
Clive Eastwood
Geminids Warm-wrapped, commonwards, we crackle grass-frost to stare side by side into a sky free of nightcloud except for the wisps we exhale. From all sides we’re buzzed by...
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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