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.
Clarissa Aykroyd
Northern Line On the platform, a waiting hum. Patience of night. A few faces scan and watch, scan and watch. This is an invisible rainforest. A girl like a statue in a long black dress has...
Pete Weber
I was a tree in '83 something about mid-Westchester aspirations that led me to believe sub-consciously that things WERE slower out in the country and that I needed slower in a lot of...
Philippe Blenkiron
Samhain Fire These words are ash, and don’t you forget it. You, whose face could churn butter; whose gurning mouth would melt it; and whose voice could stick it to the pan. You, who...
Poetry as a Lifeline: Jacqueline Saphra and Charles Lauder
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and this week, Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the...
Poetry as a Lifeline: Ghassan Zaqtan
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the...
Poetry as a Lifeline: Carole Bromley and Sibyl Ruth
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and this week Ink Sweat & Tears will be featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the...
Poetry as a Lifeline: Sam Willetts
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat & Tears will be featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the subject of the...
Poetry as a Lifeline: Mick Wood and Tim O’Leary
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat & Tears will be featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the subject...
Poetry as a Lifeline: Fady Joudah
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat & Tears will be featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the...
Poetry as a Lifeline: Marcelle Olivier, Roy Marshall and Avril Joy
The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and for the next week, Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme ‘Poetry as a Lifeline’ which is the...
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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