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.
Jessica Mookherjee
Mate Choice You didn't ask me to marry you in words, your arms thick as branches kept me to you. Blocking me in. I told you marriage was Darwin's joke, dismissing us, what we...
Sarah J Bryson
The Day Before In the morning the house is quiet with sleeping sons, and a whole day stretches before me, taut between the pull of the garden, and the list of indoor tasks:...
Elizabeth Gibson
Sunflowers Bleary, lethargic, bumping along in this coach at eight whatever in the morning I see in a field there are plants, what are they, sunflowers, oh, haven’t seen them...
Nicole Stella
Blues III Whatever Walk you made up With your false face Filled with words Suspended within mouth and lie, This is how full My heart is: Old packed cars In the frost of January....
Phil Wood
Cardigan Bay As a boy I wondered about the jigsaw strewn across the sand. The parts are taken by the waves, dad said. Salted and cleaned. I pictured the crab - pink, hard and quick to...
Zoe Austin
* Where are we headed: Moving fast but thinking slow, Blinking in the light * Afternoons with you: clean breezes about each ear and soft, yellow suns. * I knew each night would end but...
John Seed
From Melancholy Occurrences 4th May 1804 Westover house near Bath damaged by lightning an explosion louder than any cannon The wainscot was burned the bells were melted the...
Susie Wild
In case of fire exit building before tweeting about it. Do not stay statue-still with conducting hands those fidget thumbs whilst up the stairs the accounts team are inhaling...
Neil Young
Aubade Let the room be still tonight, dim the street and bedside light, chase the hallway shadows out so nothing can come near. Compose the darkness here, let it frame the...
Derek Adams
Angora My Hermes Baby, a glass and a bottle of whiskey. I am trying to find words, to fill this blank sheet of paper. Angora rabbits are an industry of the prison …much less...
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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