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.
Jane Lovell
Anonymous, Barrow-in-Furness He starts early, wheels jagging channels in the loam, churns his way back and forth, north to south, in a whirlwind of gulls and hummingbird angels...
Elisabeth Sennitt Clough
Missing: Moth Cabinet No. 3 (Sphingidae) After the Sphingidae disappeared, he sensed them back to light like Newton, stared at the pale until bodies floated into his retina. His...
Ana Lena Stipancic
Not God’s Angels These angels Are better than god’s angels Instead of hovering Invisible, untouchable They are angels of true flesh Of painful joints Unafraid to face This...
Manosij Ghosh
Waking Up An uneasy sleep, You wake up with a start, But there's this dull throbbing Inside your head which refuses to go. A cup of tea grows cold On your bedside table....
David O’Hanlon
As It Was The clearing where you stand on tiptoes you never stood The trees you flick between mark a trail we never followed The wind tugs at that purple dress you never wore...
Chris Fewings
The Earth, the Sea and the Human Spirit are getting tired of the City The city writes a city in its margins And writes another city at its core. The city writes the lives of...
Roddy Williams
on the tube three skateboarders in their thirties battered boards cradled between legs one of them begins to spin one wheel it hums like a trapped wasp 'it's like peeling the...
Edward Belleville
Video of the Rotation of the Moon Such sights cannot be seen from pimpled terra firma but from the silk galaxy of my screen looms the moon in full rotation, hung from spider...
Helen Calcutt
In January The sun corrected its knife against the black door and the world blanched the fruit of its market. I pushed my hand into the earth. Moved about ‘till I found the...
p.a. morbid
The Moon Some nights the Moon is a hook drawing my eyes up to the sky. Blue-black nights when the cold is intense and I’m staggering home drunk, alone. Then the Moon is a...
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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