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.

Bridget Khursheed

      Commute   the water on the road the leaves in beaten hedgerow the beat-up car leaves the water on the car is flicked off by the wipers there onto burnside road the brown...

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Uche Ogbuji

    Hair of the Dog Oh the drinks, nor just a few: Spirits, wine and steins of brew! Bonnet buzzing manic bee. Redde dithyrambic due! He tried prairie oyster brew, Merely made him heave...

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Sam Howell

    The Line In a woken home a plant pulls close to daylight, windowpanes between Trees blind to their reflections colder-rooted and numb stuck moving with wind.     Sam Howell...

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Amy McCauley

      A Lemon A lemon delivers an entire system. Part fact, part dream. For example, to say the word ‘lemon’ is to taste it. To repeat the word ‘lemon’ is to bring it into the light...

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Imogen Forster

    Night World A fox yelps, geese bark, streaming overhead in the small hours. Who’s out there, snuffling, foraging, as we roost, safe in a nest of other birds’ plucked feathers? A...

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Fiona Sinclair

    Curiosity Driven by the Iago voice in your head you let yourself into his Google account rifle through in box, trash, spam… until you find an email that scorches your fingers....

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Sarah Sibley

    Levitating In your house, Newfoundlands like black clouds thundered across bald floors etched with pentagrams. Through beaded fly curtains there were guitars and drum kits, you found...

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Tristan Moss

    Office Politics Say not, let there be light, but darkness visible. William Hazlitt She knows that those who don’t figure much on others’ maps, are more easily defined than those who...

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Christopher Barnes

  Anubis Unleashed from a dell of juiceless bones, We’ve let slip our mummified whelp. The jackal-chinned transfigured one Rocketed between the shady and celestial. His carting away is...

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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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