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.
Sergio A. Ortiz
you dance inside my mouth fan my flames like a falling bird I’m on fire Sergio A. Ortiz is the founding editor of Undertow Tanka Review. He lives in...
Claire Walker
A Scattered Bouquet Woman must forget her own personality when she is in love... A woman is non-existent without a master. Without a master she is a scattered bouquet Cecile...
Anwar Boulifa
The Divided Self Split my body in two Spring clean my bodily compartments Splash turps on my liver Watch it shrink in 3D Ask a caller to hang me from my eyelids Hello listeners?...
Karen Hodgson-Pryce
The royal card you’re a hundred the boy reminds a hundred what she asks inclined he has her papa’s equine scowl but hair she’s spun or eyelids kissed she cannot find someone...
Lark Beltran
Early Walk to Buy Bread Ficus trees line a long stone wall crisp on morning´s new page, in sunlight just sprung over the hill. Doves coo from the wires above a road all mine before the...
Peter Raynard
Football Classics In the world of half-time entertainment, food is all. Heaven’s pies, cow’s tea, dogs bloodied on a sponge sub. As we catch up with scores elsewhere, pixels of...
Grant Tarbard
Little White Lie Mother has sewn a white lie into the hem of my breast pocket, a finishing method for a voodoo doll boy folded narrowly. The white lie will grow in my pocket as...
A.J. Huffman
The Stars are Watching I can feel the blind eyes of night burning this bed. They believe I am as empty as the sheets that cover me. Wrinkled and unmade, our communal flaws are...
Tania Hershman
This Too Is Prayer No, not some lover's glance, a newborn's grin, sunset, autumn leaves - but this: green fluorescent protein, a molecule borrowed from the jellyfish to turn our cells...
Neal Pike
Selbstliebe is touching my own skin for it not hiss back at me. to pull apart my own heart see the worms of anxiety and doubt inside mages that keep me rolling out of bed every...
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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