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.
Emily Oldham
Love Love speaks in a manna-song, one that God might try on prophets. Don’t guess and tell, it says. You stumble down and through the gaping cave, giddy with self-consciousness...
Robin Houghton
Tying the bowline Slipped back on itself through the first loop, the rope forms a round window. You’re halfway in. Slick as a snake charmer you guide your needle point to pierce...
Mark Done
Solar Farm, Sudbury Two boys balance on a five-bar gate. Ready for take-off, they lean into a field where an alien crop has sprung up among native hedgerows and trees – row upon...
John Grey
The Brain's Last Days Cracked brain, down a backstreet, side alley, bottom of the dumpster. The accumulation of years of thought has broken your spirit Like Hemingway's, you've...
Lauren Bell
Trading Places, Changing Spaces She decided that everything had to go. Absolutely everything. She wanted no reminder of him, not even a speck of dust made from his dead skin...
James R Kilner
Wind TurbineMonstrous reaper thrashing arms threshing airor snowdrop on the bright horizon.Lost to night, spinning like the wheel of a ship near wreckor ponderous, arms on a...
Gary Jude
Music Some words strut about like tragedians on stage. Alas! Or bit part play the page quietly stealing scenes. Words on stilts shout above the rabble of the street. Speech is...
Stuart Pickford
Bio Earplugs For swimming, snoring or noise pollution. Spearmint blue and chewy soft, they tickle your brain, let silence swell. Like slipping under water in the bath, your...
John D Robinson
Robinson ‘John D must try harder in every subject; he appears to spend a great deal of time day-dreaming and preferring his own company, he may struggle to establish a career...
Ash Gamble
Organize File me, lock me away, hopefully under love or memory, not "that creep," slide me into a pull out shelf. See what comes of our time and pull me out when you are ready...
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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