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.
Neil Campbell
The Ford There was a moment of driving rain that forced him into a grouse butt for some semblance of shelter, and he huddled there, his woolly hat on under the...
Andrew McDonnell
Me, Me, Me Sometimes I feel like a stranger in the town called Me. I enter a bar and all the other me fall silent. The barman is familiar, he reminds me of me when I was...
Nick Norton
Mirror and Garden There is a river running in our walls. Tears erupt through the groan of bubbling plaster. A lunging silence beneath every floor. The architecture is discomfited by...
Judith Lal
Talking about Ladders after Ian Starsmore There is a ladder angled to the roof of the world where blue darkens and you cannot hold the footing in your breath for long. You have a small...
Sarya Wu
Palindrome Existence Sometimes when I feel alone, So I find a clean bus stop to stand by and wait, Perhaps the bus will remind me Of where to go Maybe it's fate- I contemplate....
Robert Ford
Jumper He first appeared only in an eye corner, the image flickering through my open window like a lightning bolt would’ve, bold, yet fleeting enough to seem unreal. Any mortal...
Poems from the winning Café Writers Commission pamphlets as we launch them tonight in Norwich
Ink Sweat & Tears Press is very pleased to be able to launch the winning pamphlets from the 2014 Café Writers Commission Competition tonight at Take 5 in Norwich. During the course of the...
Sanjeev Sethi
Noise Is in-betweenness a curse or calling? This is my shelter. Acceptance alters the map, boundaries erupt, erase just like that. The mind fans this fire: give me a furnace...
Ash Dean
Fine Winter Rain Flea swarm hiss on cold paunch face Gilds hairs by feathered grain; A hush and grace Fleck wash all place Enduring spry fine winter rain. ...
Sally Festing
Fig What happens in the alleys of the multiple green dark womb of a fig’s synconia? Home for a tiny wasp to lay eggs in convoluted penetrations. Gulping dream-eaters...
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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