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.

Robin Houghton

      Small Horse Equuleus Pictoris A bent line, not much more: Pictor, the Abbé saw an easel in you, twig-tendril afloat in the Southern sky. Your jaunty stance winks neither canvas...

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John Grey

      A Noise Affair The quiet is in here somewhere, surely. The child with the hammer is taking anything it can grab in its tiny hands and smashing it. For his coin in a fountain, a...

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Barbara Lightner

      One… or The Other …how feisty and pugnacious hummingbirds are. -- Ohio Department of Natural Resources   One: Of hummingbirds, loveliest of the summer, beauty of the free...

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Frank C. Praeger

      A Broken Walker It hasn't always been or even maybe, the starless crowding mercuric montage of age - teased out debris. Pummeled, spoken for, a kind of courage confused with...

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Ralph Monday

      Nocturne by Tea You sit alone on the deck, under the night stars that stir no romantic wonder, just dim night lights that fade with day as everything does. They may as well be...

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Lesley Quayle

      The Woman Who Drank Us Up She was the woman who drank us up, gripped us in her graveyard grasp and drained us, until we were almost uncreated, loose skin and slack bones. She...

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Witty Fay

      Maravillossa The combustion process Begins with your eyes Scorching one layer of my cells, On a wet day That keeps us into each other. My heart beats loudly thud! Or is the thug...

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Kitty Coles

      Exorcism All day, you scurry about with your little net, like a hunter of moths, things of darkness, duplicitous fire.  You are diligent in your efforts.  You search them down...

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Michael Loveday

      wintering gathering my eight lives – the bridge, my balcony burying my eight lives – the tunnel, my stairwell guarding my eight lives – the road, my roof remembering my eight...

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Ali Lewis

      photographs from our holiday in bed this is the night we slept how mathematicians draw an ‘x’ the night we lay facedown smug as pocket aces the night we peeled apart like pitta...

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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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