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.
Sonam Chhoki
The Lure of the Threshold The hound is out tonight. It lowers its head and drools in wait for a passer-by. Threading through the bamboo the summer moon stipples its taut back,...
Mark Rutter
Walking As Bashō says, are not the very days, the years themselves wanderers? And all of this life a ramble across a heath, through winter woods to the field where the...
Jude Cowan Montague
The Evidence (Pendle, 1612) written for the exhibition 'The Tower' by Jude Cowan Montague and Miyuki Kasahara at St John on Bethnal Green, May 2014. Her eyes are sunk in her head. God...
Judith Taylor
family occasion maybe we'll all come back as gulls another time grey backs against the weather a commotion of heavy white wings around whatever troubles us or feeds us, and an...
Clarissa Aykroyd
Cairo My heart fills with echoes, a singing chamber. My head is the sun. You are the island of towers and the living air. There is no break, no edge. I am sky as I breathe, road...
Zoe Karathanasi
Jardin des Tuilleries When we parted at the metro, I saw your figure blow out, and me, melting wax in my clothes, saved the last glimpse of you, gripped on it for the last...
Sally Long
Paradox Intelligence focused: an obsessive inquiry into metaphysics, circumoral muscles complex in climaxes, waiting for a star on planet earth. Psychotic breakdown: staring at...
Sam Kolinski . . . Remember! for National Poetry Day
Deckchair Cartographers We charted the sable graveyard like it depended on our lives, splayed horizontal as split sacks, left eyes like cornucopia shells...
Carole Bromley and Viviene Jones . . . Remember! for National Poetry Day
The First Thing I Ever Stole A thrupenny bit from my mother’s purse because she wouldn’t give me money for the tuck shop and because she’d never miss it and because I could and...
Emily Bullock and Sibyl Ruth . . . Remember! for National Poetry Day
Back Issues He kneels at the stacks of Exchange and Mart, dates set. Wouldn’t mean nothing to no one that the Austin Princess sits atop the Ford Transit. Some use crosswords or...
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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