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.
Orla McArt
Sea You made me the sea- trapped behind two toilet rolls encaged in a deconstructed Cornflake's box smothered with pink face paint and smattered with twinkling glitters. When I peered...
Geoffrey Winch
To the Souls of the Inert after John Cowper Powys (The Inmates) damn your souls those who remain indifferent to broken plates chipped cups and saucers or shattered mirrors...
Shadwell Smith
Robot on Parquet He watched them dance from a fold up chair, rigid Tin Man in a sports hall trying not to stare too hard at swans that bobbed and arced through air in sudden...
Thomas Piekarski
Capricornic The music was so good I turned into a transdimensional space goat, then went on to alternately explore alter egos, stratospheric latitudes and souvenirs from Earth. Snakes...
David Van-Cauter
Living Room This is your space now – sofas shifted to accommodate a hospital bed, tables thick with medication, drinks and flowers, get-well cards. I am a visitor, bringing...
Jonny Fluffypunk on ‘Poetry & Disobedience’ for Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2014
The 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 7th-9th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of ‘Poetry & Disobedience' which is the subject of the...
Karen McCarthy Woolf on ‘Poetry & Disobedience’ for Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2014
The 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 7th-9th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of ‘Poetry & Disobedience' which is the subject of the...
Brian Patten on ‘Poetry & Disobedience’ for Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2014
The 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 7th-9th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of ‘Poetry & Disobedience' which is the subject of the...
Togara Muzanenhamo on ‘Poetry & Disobedience’ for Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2014
The 2014 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 7th-9th November. Today and over the weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of ‘Poetry & Disobedience' which is the subject...
Michael Estabrook
At McDonald’s An attractive employee with mussed hair pacing outside smoking a cigarette two construction workers discussing in simple Beckettesque lines the difficult old lady...
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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