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.
Please do take a look.
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Prose and poetry
Poems and prose published on the website from start to finish.
Sarah James
Fierce Love To be a lyre bird, dove…or pigeon: strong-clawed and sleek-feathered. To write songs of flight in italics against grey skies, and dig out the worms that dirt hides. To...
James R Kilner
A Departure The lawn is overgrown, grass sprouts like unruly hair, the flowerbed bare where a patient trowel turned the soil gently, neatly. Intermittently, white sticks like...
Kinga Fabó
Not Because It's Chic Here I have a place where I can be sad. I adore it. I adore it. I exist only in roles. I want colors! Colors! Just as above me the sky is always blue. Not...
Susan Castillo Street
Voices Oaks rumble in deep bass that thrums straight down their roots, draws from the earth. Hornbeams belt out Sixties pop songs, twist and shout. Willow divas wail...
Jay Frankston
The Portrait I’m not looking for perfection I don’t really want it It is essence I seek, wholeness with blunders and errors and the unexpected surprise. The hand that shakes...
Ilse Pedler
Breathing Sometimes in the car I forget to breathe, almost. Respiration reduces to tiny transactions reluctant to leave any trace. Warm skin and car seat a new...
Charlie Hill
This chaos We live, perhaps, in a lawless world, rejoicing as it does in the wild swings of good against bad, confounded by questions of maplines and economics and the...
Chris Fewings
from DIVING LESSONS Friday: death of God. Sunday: birth of body. i. Relocation Dive deeper into God: she’s relocated, bequeathing the heavens to faeries and astronauts. She’s chosen...
Jill Sharp
Leda plucks a swan Old now, the body that enchanted him grown coarse, how could he know her? Yet she knows him, this creature, even with fallen wings, eyes empty of desire. Not...
Winner of the UEA FLY Festival Short Story Competition 11-14 yr olds: Yen-yen Loke
If anything, this year's shortlist for the 11-14 age group for UEA FLY Festival Short Story Competition was even more competitive than the older (15-17) group (whose winner we featured...
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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