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.
Michael Estabrook
temptation Whenever he finds a spider in the house he leaves it alone but sometimes one shows up in the bedroom and his wife says “either that spider goes or I do” and at...
Jinny Fisher
The Scarf This is the scarf Miranda makes. It is the scarf that she knits and knits and knits in strips of colours she picks from the current selection of wool in the hospice...
Paul Smith
The Mattress Conspiracy None of us saw it coming. It was slow and subtle. First, a lot of small stores went out of business. We wouldn’t miss them. They were tiny –...
Patri Wright
It Starts with Her Awkward Hairline the bit behind her ear, along the bone, I accidentally on purpose stroke as the comb starts to move freely. Her head between my knees, a kiss on her lobe —...
Juliet Humphreys
My Favourite Coat It was never mine — a seventies Afghan, with its heavy red and yellow stitching and tendrils of fleece I yearned to twist — if I could only twirl into the...
Adele Fraser
What the Queen Knows Sometimes, I talk as if throwing darts at a board, hoping some will hit target and score the prize of a response from you. Other times, I wrap myself in...
M. G. Stephens
Missing Silverware Phantoms annoy my memory palace Late at night into early morning light, Streeling through the halls like banshee, they sing Dissonantly and claim to be me Or my...
Anas Hassan
Bibi, are you living? When the snoring stopped as you perched by the fire with loving impudence you asked: Bibi, are you living? You listened awestruck to your Scheherazade, her...
James Parris
One Under at St Paul’s Central westbound, strangely grabbed from standing sleep by scream of brakes which didn’t stop when we did but migrated into mouths of those who saw him...
Femi Morgan
Lagos Roofs The roofs of Lagos Technicolor Bits of sticks, stones, nylon Worn out sandals Bits of teeth, Eczema, scarifications of rain and sun The insignia of the...
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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