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.
Peter Daniels
New Product Opportunity Some of you may have already heard the latest development – you’re intrigued, concerned, excited, perhaps ready to puke, and believe me that could be...
Cathy Whittaker
Things that Comfort Me Now Pink primroses clustered in a rockery garden Magnolia thick with milky-white buds ready to burst the playground on the Rec where my children told...
Phil Vernon
Twenty-five years For Tebo I waken too early, on woodsman's toes explore a home that's still, until our neighbour turns the news up loud, and you begin to snore to match the...
Fiona Marshall
The moment when you catch the blackbird’s eye I know the moment when you catch the blackbird’s eye, between the bus stop six yards ahead and the arrival of all those thoughts....
Andrew Turner
My father’s watch My father kept his pocket watch trapped in a round, carefully imagined tin; unscrewing the lid constantly to be amazed by the way time would crawl into the dark corners and...
Justine Knight
Dried Tough shoulders. There was flaked skin at the back of his neck, leading down beneath the red shirt. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing tiny hairs of red tinged with grey. I...
Gary Studley
Garage Roof Gods mine is to know us by sump-oiled ditches of flowing gossip unproven or choke-weed culverts, seldom navigated sour milk teardrops over kicked-in fences burnt tattoos,...
Robert Nisbet
Grandson Oliver Nisbet, born Seattle, 31.8.2010 I’ve seen you just in photographs, Skype images. Tracing you, I wonder at your crinkled lineaments unfolding. Born an American,...
Anne Bailey
The Little Girl and the Universe A man watched a little girl push her doll's pram with determination up the steep path at the side of her house, it came to a stop at a step. Not...
Wendy Pratt
Undone Unwrapped and warm again, laid still, but sleeping still; pulled up through the bulbs and windmills and worms and wood. Us, warped open on the seam. Love thickening along the wound....
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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