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...
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...
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...
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...
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'...
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...
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...
Oliver Armison
Foxgloves 1. There’s not much you can say about hollyhocks. 2. Or are they foxgloves? 3. They’re tall, for instance. 4. Skyscrapers of the garden. 5. And they...
Aashna Nagpal
Somewhere on the moon I have been trying to decipher your thin smile, a shaky bridge between your ears. Those eyes, slits- blocking away the truth, with a look of longing, search for...
Oliver Comins
Some Data and a Little Insight There’s no one here whose heart is still to break - Roddy Lumsden after Po Chü-i No-one’s heart in that room is waiting to be broken for the first...
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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