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.
Winner of the UEA FLY Festival Short Story Competition 15-17 yr olds: Aedan Fisher
Last week, we were once more privileged to be part of the UEA FLY Festival (Festival of Literature for Young people). Ink Sweat & Tears again supported the final event, a superbly...
Laurie Kolp
The Snobby Woman Pretends Not to See Me and sweeps her nose to the sky and sniffs moon dust and yoyos her eyelids like a freak show act and then looks away and I once had...
Eluned Jones
The Slate Museum Machinery peeled from sudden rain over the shoulder of black light the chwarel quarrel yr hen ddyn a’i hammer his chisel splitting the hard word to the...
Maggie Butt
Replete Enough of beauty - I have devoured small boats curtseying at anchor, green palace-dotted hills swarming the spice-scented shore of Asia Minor. I couldn’t chew another...
Simon Williams
Lighthouse The Welsh granite of it stands waves on their heels. I walk up and round, up and round with floors at levels, periodically. Ancestors made generators, switchgear, the...
Marjorie Sadin
October Trees wear their colors out. Clouds gather like congregations. It is Yom Kippur. I have sinned the sins of omission, of broken promises, of resentment. I have not killed...
Jürgen Olschewski
Bridges I’ve saved three from suicide. Three bridges. Three bodies of water. The first was a rung-out Hausfrau on the iron bridge across the Stausee(?) - (or another bridge...
Karley Denniston
Spinning in Zero He's so real he could've been made by man when we meet his cheek brushes against mine it's buttery fine like quality leather i lodge pills into my gums to give...
Mary Franklin
The Vampire's Lament 'Holding hands at midnight', he suggests to me. Not bloody likely! I've been haunting this cemetery for centuries and he comes along with that gapey grin,...
S. Black
day of release still the holy mother tattoo weeps * in the closest behind the everyday his father's pornography * on common ground a shortcut through bluebell wood the path of...
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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