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.
Ray Miller
Public Transport Sir Edward Elgar is standing at a bus stop in Great Malvern, alongside a public telephone kiosk; bowler-hatted and moustachioed, nonchalantly squinting...
Alan Katerinsky
Zip Up Young Man! Yo! You with the trailin’ droop-scooped drawers! Yeah, I’m talkin’ n’ talkin’ to you hardware-face. I weep (that means cry) for the kids of the world who’d...
Andrew McCallum Crawford
Strip The Willow I want to watch. I want to watch you dance with me, and we are the perfect couple. Synchronised. Fiddles and accordions. We know all the steps. We know them so...
G David Schwartz
Don't Put A Spider In Your Mouth I have read as well as written essays as short as three paragraphs and as long as a full length book. It was my grandfather or my High-school...
Wendy Stern’s ‘Kshanti’
#TheWritingLife is a hash tag sometimes used by writers on social media to vent their frustrations with lines of poetry, chapter openings and recalcitrant characters that refuse to fit in. But what...
Victor Buehring
Behind me But off the highway – who is it? His track is lost in the undergrowth, the bushes close together behind him. The grass straightens up, the wilderness swallows him –...
Robert Etty
Leuacanthemum Vulgare and a Cow in Kyyjavi, Central Finland (From a photograph on Wikipedia, with acknowledgements) The photograph catches one ox-eye daisy in sun in a meadow in...
Holly Magill
Lit up They lift sweetie-sharp glow-stars on tips of licked fingers, glue them, neon scabs, to the inside of her skull – she is lit. Colour-studded, so damned pretty – a reverse...
Stefanie Bennett
PSALM 72 Since we’ve ‘bitten The dust’ Our jaws have Grown The most Improbable Prose Garden. Stefanie Bennett has published several books of...
Sophie-Louise Hyde
from United We stand The Commute 6 o’clock. I would, usually, run home from work at WaterLinks. Mum said, ‘Don’t’. ‘Don’t run home from work today’, but I still didn’t feel unsafe. ‘In...
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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