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.
Dominic Bond
Suited: His suit needed nothing added to it such was the force with which it argues his case. My Dad’s were always pristine, somewhere between a bank manager and...
Chrissie Cuthbertson
For the last time With a mother's practised care I grasp your greenstick frame and hoist you to your unsure feet though you would be easy to hurt. A time will come...
Simon Collings
Going up Out on the balcony A’s drag artist friend is talking about ‘replenishing minerals’. It was in the news apparently, a slow downbeat of an idea gumming up the...
David Ishaya Osu
Trance the whole world was traveling yesterday in a big boat that couldn't carry a star nor a grain of sugar. the whole world still couldn't reach its room before the...
Tendai. R. Mwanaka
Send Me Out Send me out, send me out I will make the journey Send me out send me out So far away Send me out send me out To collect the stars Send me out send me out To find...
Josephine Corcoran
Old Girls In the library, we lost ourselves gazing out at traffic, yearning for stories of adventure and flight. Now, every night, we fly and hum, our bodies...
Colin Pink
The Double He follows me around, hasn’t got a life of his own, but uses bits of mine instead. He picks out moments, rummaging through the dustbin of memories....
Gill McEvoy
Assignation A white moon waits for the sun to get to bed. Inside her room a woman waits till footsteps cease along the corridors, until the house is still,...
Vivien Jones
Allotment I just have to see those rigs, those bed-spread patches, to see my mother sewing fragments of grown-out-of clothes, to make a summer skirt. She...
Michael Baron
The Summons When boys swam in the river While their brothers and sisters Helped with ploughing, milking, Stripping feathers off the chickens Before the weekend feast, and...
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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