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.
Alex Reed
Ghost I read there is a name for it, this absence, this expanse, this frozen place. There is a name for it – they call it ambiguous loss. Words that carry the weight of years of...
C. Albert
Love is a common word. Don't let your jaded mind forget its purest derivations. 1. A topiary forest, home of a hungry paradise, a rotund heaven. 2. The round rind bed on which a baby...
Kris Thain
A meeting of minds You said you preferred Orwell’s essays. The way they lulled you into a sense of the plain, transcending any given ideology often whilst condemning or praising...
Sarah Chapman
Since we’ve met I think since we met I may have encouraged a small amount of nothingness It’s not your fault, it went through you like invisible. You could be a mixture of girls...
Myfanwy Fox
# Sizzle Reel CV I am a woman possessed of the key skills to incentivise staff, validate client-facing compliance, inject vitality into volunteer experience, strategically...
Jean Cardy
Denizens Mice live in the London Tube. A train leaves and small pieces of sooty black detach themselves from the sooty black walls and forage for crumbs in the rubbish under the rails that...
Anna-May Laugher
Hymn to the Ones kept Secret Oh legion to whose births I was not invited I will sit me down and wait with patience by the outflow of the sewage pipes. I will sit me down and...
Olugboyega ‘Bo’ Abayomi – Odubanjo
By the rivers of Babylon he sat and wept By the rivers of Babylon he sat and wept, He packed his bags, combed his hair, shined his shoes, He shielded his eyes from the...
Arun Sharma
Chop Chop Suey Village life. The only buzz, outside the Chinese after nine. The Garden of Tranquility. Chop Chop jabbers a lot; to his mates; to passers by; at the cops. Always...
Caroline Natzler
Marjorie She keeps a nest of voices buried in the turf stows puffball girls in her pockets looks at the sky and waits for life to come round again. Caroline...
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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