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.
Deirdre Fagan
The trouble with pairs I want to be inside of you No, not like that I want to unzip you And climb inside Big toe first, then a dipping of my head Until I’m fully upright and...
Ned Randle
Prognostication Today I took a long bicycle ride On the back country roads and noted the Great majority of meandering, Migrating wooly caterpillars Resembled miniature Marilyn...
Jim Bennett
the lost rivers of Wirral on the old map thin spidery lines mark rivers brooks streams some still flow hidden as they dip into culverts some have been built over one...
Csilla Toldy
Howl When I was on my own, in exile in the wilderness, I never had thought that fear would become such a good friend to me one day. They used to chase me away. Now I am a...
Two poems and an interview with Joanna Hollins, the 2015/2016 recipient of the Ink Sweat & Tears Poetry Writing Scholarship at the University of East Anglia.
Iona i The losing of faith isn’t easy. So many years and words – times you’ve sat, half-drunk on divinity or cider, arguing the case, cases, offered prayer, wisdom, verses – it gathers in...
Sergio Ortiz
Out of Time let’s say the spider measuring time is dead-- in summer, hummingbirds dance around your face let’s say mannequins shin up the backs of ghosts in a fire-- you fall flat on...
Rachael Clyne
Out of my Mind Last year I slipped into his, its sour wine smell mouldy heel of bread in the fridge, scratches on the walls, razors at the door. Now I am homeless mine has been...
Thomas Ország-Land on Bernard Kops’ ‘Anne Frank’s Fragments from Nowhere’
Bernard Kops, Poetry & Peril: PEACE WILL COME, ANNE FRANK...
Colin Bancroft
Displacement I swaddled the bulbs in newspaper And placed them on the shelf to keep them cool Over the winter, out of the frost That this morning spit shined the roof of the...
Rupert Loydell
from WHITE NOISE 3 REVISED ADDENDUM Non-specific wording to agree Please read and accept as much as possible You should not acknowledge contaminated dredge material transloading...
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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