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.

Jody Porter

      Café Auteur On every café commute your Godard eye transmutes the mannequins of lingerie windows into beings just like us (with regrets and sorrows and loves). You command a New...

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Mark Totterdell

      Temple Meads Beneath vast curves of brick and iron and stone, I bend towards the small black tablet, trying to establish a connection. His works are mighty; the fabled bridge...

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Gregg Dotoli

      Isthmus we are on the Isthmus past-present soil growing crowded and carbon-hot is that tide higher? where is that lake? those polar bears swim but aren't walruses scary-odd...

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Charles G Lauder

      Late in the Evening   The rapid tap of rain is hands on skin, ground hard from the day’s dry tread made loose by this roof-tap down-piss. Lost amidst slap-dash dots and...

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Sue Birchenough

      after Landscape with the fall of Icarus sun she love dem pleat on he peasant frock an' dem pleat he ploughin' an' dem curve sail, an' river moute, an' dem plough pleat curvin'...

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Matthew Friday

    Banana Man on the Bakerloo Line With the delicate, cautious care of a first-time mother reaching for her crying baby, the man on the Bakerloo line train tip-toes his fingers into his...

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Paul Tarragó

        Arguments for an empty room     It is a space that shapes, a boon, an asset. A container, a repository, a suggestion. And we can now confidently add to that: an...

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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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