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.

Grace Barham

    Hey There Dali I can hear it ticking softly between sheets that still smell of our skin; winding time weaving us together. This morning I forgot to take my watch from under your...

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Sarah Crewe

    this is not disorder there is no gap    just twists that stick in your throat   reinvent themselves in tortured itch   non-sleep patterns drowning in shallow water           this is...

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Tony Vowles

    Taming the Tiger On days like this I imagine he watches from a bench in the park. Having eaten his sandwiches and fed the birds he spends the rest of the hour observing the comings and...

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David Callin

  1347 People are getting betrothed, and wearing green, and going on pilgrimages. There is harvesting, and hawking, and amorous conversation. The sky is unquizzably blue but the saints are in...

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g. emil reutter

    Monday Night Encased in Wissahickon Stone walls heavy pine tables are circled by padded chairs.  A couple sits across the room, she’s not too happy as he orders take out for his wife....

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Dan Micklethwaite

    Aflutter He teaches himself dance theory from books, and, when the others have gone to bed, he turns the lights lower and starts up with practice. He takes in the black ink of the...

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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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