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.
Please do take a look.
Search the archive
Prose and poetry
Poems and prose published on the website from start to finish.
David Lukens
Ancestor Dreams They gather where the river forms an ox-bow lake. Old men with beards as big as bushes, women aproned, busy in their starched mob caps. Folk who use the muscle...
Carrie Etter
The Find At the garage sale I smiled when I saw Emily Dickinson’s selected poems. Didn’t I have this edition at home? Inside it read: To Marie. Friends forever. Love, Alice. I was...
Penny Shutt
Covalent Bonding In the end I couldn’t compete with the intermolecular pull that drew you to her. Me, the less reactive one - bookish, inert, our bond replaced by...
Leslie Philibert
Rowan Tough-wood and feather half in flight ; bent as a dark fork. The late of the year spots her with blood berries crouching against the wind. The blasted daughter of the high...
Gareth Spark
A picture of the Carrer Pescadors A photo of my old street, in the rain; Sandstone grim, the summer's sudden Treachery marked upon it As knuckles dent a cheek. I can feel the weight of...
John Kaniecki
Thoughts I was watching Bruce Lee Blindfolded He was twirling His nunchucks With such blinding speed That it was a whirl Like formless vapor A man was standing Exactly three...
Helen Calcutt
Bird Lamp in paperfields and in the sky, a compression of long halls. Do you know how sudden you are how sad? Sadness being air or soft fly of a thing over dark houses. The sad dying...
G. David Schwartz
I Say This For All The Guys I say this for all the guys Who lost a love and got surprised This happens to most everyone And I can tell you boys, she is dumb ...
Roberta James
Dust Kitchen grease grimed you into blinds, their venetian slats. With bowls of steaming hot water, dirt-cut of citrus fresh, I wipe you off wood, window panes, all the frames....
Marc Woodward
Marc Woodward is a musician and poet based in the West Country. His work, which often draws on music and rural life and is frequently underpinned by dark humour has been published in various...
Poetry Picks
Our favourite poems and ‘best of’ chosen from each month between 2007 and 2019
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga
Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga reviously published on the website.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
12 Days of Christmas
All the poems from our regular 12 days of Christmas feature.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Words & Images
Words with images previously published on the website.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Blogs and news
Blogs and archived news from 2007 to 2020.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Reviews
Archived reviews from 2007 to 2020.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.