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.
Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
The Boy and the Mountain Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad? Each one is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them […]....
John Alwyine-Mosely
The Shoemaker Writes at his Window Today I write to tell you I saw Sarah again her neck curved, each move of ballet grace I took her calfskin shoe and placed a warm, innocent...
Marcelle Olivier
groundwater i will never be as innocent as i was then. as ripe as this root, as sound as a lock of mistletoe to its tree. i will never be as thirsty. i will never again be as near to gods....
Ann Cuthbert
Bandaged She doesn’t bleed now. The chemicals put paid to that – staunched the flow, tracking down those cells, their waving feelers tearing out her hair, their bird-claw trail...
Bo Lanier
Flail and Crook For all of you who has ever said You loved me then broke my heart May you succumb to the most? Awful Egyptian curse May Hathor cause you great pain? And shame...
Sally Long
I Live with Ghosts The whole house tips upside down like a cat it comes when it will. Corpuscle-like black shapes a chill across my skin, the obscenity of objects secret in...
Dennis Herrell
Oh, Thank You It's quite beautiful, a very delicate porcelain well turned by a dedicated hand. The floral white and blue are my favorite colors, and the shape elegantly fuses...
Richard O’Brien
Pont Désert This is municipal conscious uncoupling. A man will arrive in a hi-vis coat and load up a trolley with old love-tokens, sawn from their moorings, a fence full of...
JD DeHart
Secondhand He lived a well-meaning secondhand life, pants and shirt and soul a hand-me-down, ideas and thoughts the spitting image of someone else's until that day when old wares are...
Clare Marsh
Sibling I helped my mother pick ripe gooseberries loaded with their bitter seeds. She straightened up rested her hand on her vast belly - my sun was blotted out. I saw my mother rushed...
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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