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.
Theophilus Kwek
Psalm 19 To the Fathers at the Paris Seminary Jean-Marie Beurel, Priest, Church of the Good Shepherd, Singapore On still days, when this meridian city becomes an image of itself –...
James Croal Jackson
Skywriting in that gray cloudlessness between cyan and cornflower, our words became ice, steel wings barreling to the edge of escape James Croal...
Stephen Bone
Sunday Keeps up its show of bells clasped hands wears the scent of roasts takes the long way round killjoy that calls time early and dutifully sips Lapsang with great aunts withering...
Dan Stathers
The hardest kid in school sat with bins in corners, invisible as chewing gum, his arms changing colour; indigo to violet; his xylophone ribs practising hollow melodies and his...
Beth Somerford
Night Walk to Peppercombe Beach Late afternoon already, as we drop down the unmetalled track to find the house; watch the light slip from the day’s shoulders while we unpack and...
Colin Pink
New Perch We balance on the balcony like two Japanese cups on a high shelf - together - rim to rim perfect and fragile in equal measure. A shingle of stars lies scattered across...
David Brierley
Twelve views of Manchester Sunrise across New Islington, from the side of Rochdale Canal. Fallow Café at Landcross, the morning after a snowfall. A rainstorm beneath the Beetham...
Geoff Mills for National Flash Fiction Day!
Manners Gladys Walker ascended to heaven in her eight-first year to find the place not at all to her satisfaction. Glancing critically over the field of serrated clouds upon which a...
Hideko Sueoka
Cherry Blossoms Today dark blue is my facial colour. So can you see ashy-indigo confetti? A cherry addict admires pale pink fluttering down in lambent sunlight. But through the...
Kenneth Pobo
Red Carnations Your dad died three years ago. You were 61. Today your brother left red carnations, his favorite, by his name. Beside your dad’s place, a stranger’s sinking...
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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