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
The Details Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore. Somehow they are lost. He consults his map while the wife unscrews her Thermos,...
Matthew Friday
Schrödinger’s Hummingbirds Feathered electrons nipping through the air on a sugary buzz, they click and whistle, twittering like computer servers, firing through airy lines of...
Elaine Ewart
Harvest at Morwenstowe All must be safely gathered in. As the villagers Push shut their buffeted doors, their vicar, Flapping, motley in primrose and purple, zig-zags Down the...
Poetry and Beauty: Salena Godden
The 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 8th-10th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of ‘Beauty’ which is the subject of the...
Poetry and Beauty: Richie McCaffery
The 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 8th-10th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of ‘Beauty’ which is the subject of the...
Poetry and Beauty: Shazea Quraishi
The 2013 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 8th-10th November and this weekend Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme of ‘Beauty’ which is the subject of the...
Marion McCready
View Marble sky indented, swithering branches. A pyramid of roofs, the windows of Mary street. Rosemary rising from a Belfast sink. Leaded glass carving diamonds on the window....
Austin McCarron
Morning in Soho The sun scream of light is like a cow offering milk to graves. I hear music and laughter in bays of air. On deserted streets I see wind of flowering...
Jack Houston
Like Cats and Dogs The cat and dog are getting on. The peace deal in place between them means the cat now has permission to live here near the dog’s food bowl. The settlement...
Tod Connor
Preacher Man Harley's congregation had swollen to 5,000 of the faithful, so he knew he was doing something right. The next step on his career path was obvious, he needed to...
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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