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.
David Pollard
Kaddish And Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes. There, beyond the brink and generations are the dead houses filled with eyes closed by the hands of sons first borne into the...
john sweet
…and the heart a broken bell says she’s tired of being dead and what the hell am i supposed to do? can’t have power without money can’t have god without the devil late august...
Carol Caffrey
Promises to Keep But I have promises to keep… And miles to go before I sleep. - Robert Frost. The branches of the trees stood bare and weightless. A...
Santino Prinzi
Lovelocked They’re like wedding vows materialised. Couples go to Paris, other places too, mostly bridges, to do theirs. Love locks. A symbol of love everlasting, they...
Clive Oseman
Carry On It's like at the flick of a switch a ghost appears, stitches my eyelids together and all brightness I ever saw is just distorted memory. Soon no-one will remember me as I hide behind...
Robert Harper
Through a Lens They turned and looked at me as I stood half in the doorway, half in the hall, unaware this had been brewing long before the leaves of trust were bagged up in the...
Marion Oxley
A Taxidermist Regenerates Blackburn The heart had gone out of it. They’d wanted a Poundland or a Gregg’s; said they needed it. She got out the rat purse, unzipped the fur,...
William Ford
Doors of Perception Congratulations, upon your wise decision To purchase your Doors of Perception From Ikea Although there are no specific rules about How to use your Doors of...
Jane Lovell
Two Mountains What is destined will reach you, even if it be beneath two mountains. What is not destined will not reach you, even if it be between your two lips. Imam Ghazali I...
Rick Mitchell
How Was Your Day at the Office? Well, here’s what happened: I was picking the brittle brown oak leaves from between the garden rocks, clearing the last of winter, when I tilted a piece of...
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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