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.
Matt Duggan
The Crow When I feel that I’m the Crow living outside that circle gliding far from the heads in chatter that only resemble the pattern of Mandir Temple in whitened marble; An outsider The...
Simon Williams
From Pewsey to Didcot by Mouse-Hearse Get yourself a free-rolling hearse; a Daimler or a big Ford. You won’t require speed, a good walking pace will do. You’ll need a bedroll...
Joan Byrne
Dancing with a Bonzo Will you do me the honour? says a man with long hair, mottled amber and silver, pink-rimmed glasses round as free-range eggcups, wispy beard like a question...
Stephanie Farnsworth
Partners in Sadness I cut our white sheets into rabbits. Your mother was terrified. You laughed. Saw only the hopeful and misplaced talent. I tried to make breakfast in bed but...
Colin Crewdson
Damascus: Narrow gauge The Ottoman train Swiss made (1905) on its narrow mountain gauge drifts away from the main Hejaz line, smoking, laying smoke wreaths for the city. We...
Maeve Henry
Someone Else The quilt still smells of you, but your bedroom walls are pocked with blu-tack, football teams all gone. They say you crossed the border, walked into Syria. You will head...
Jonathan Humble
Glad To Be A Dalek I'm not your average Dalek, You know the sort I mean, All bent on domination; Giving vent to all that spleen. I like to think I'm different From other...
Christine Whittemore
The Paper-Wasp I tracked her by the sound her mouthparts made: rasp, rasp, on a dry stick. She straddled it and worked her jaws, reviving something dead, collecting shreds of...
Luke Harrison
The Deer Granted, some beasts are quick. But rounds were cheap as breaths for him that night, and still the ropes were coiled like laughing snakes. I sewed his returning eyes to...
Words by Reuben Woolley, Image by Sonja Benskin Mesher
Reuben Woolley has been published in Tears in the Fence, The Lighthouse Literary Journal, The Interpreter's House and Ink Sweat and Tears among others. A collection, the king is dead, 2014,...
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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