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.
Ilse Pedler
The Glass Between I see the moon hanging like an old dog tag in the sky and I hear the owl send out its two notes searching. I know all that I see and all my knowing is transparent....
Sonia Jarema
New Kid on the Tower Block Balletic you tested each stair with toe, pad and heel. Your hand glided the banister as you stopped to shake sunshine into the dark staircase. Your...
Michael Loughran
Regarding a smudge in a photograph. Shapeless/stubborn, indistinguishable/insignificant, an erroneous trick of light? Or is it I? I, i , ı , ı , . eighteen...
Meg Cox
Showing Promise When my father was sixteen he could throw an egg over the house, run through the rooms and catch the egg unbroken in the back garden. The doors would be open, his...
Josephine Corcoran
What Becomes Of The Absent-Minded? our houses smell of burned apples and pine forests dripping through ceilings we carry sausages from room to room with a feeling...
Mark Fewtrell
A lie must not advertise itself. Dreaming a word I woke: Encomium? There was no one about and I looked. Maybe I was grateful for waking from sleep again or just from sleep. A fool's freedom....
Michael Hughes
Alien As there are one hundred thousand million stars in our galaxy, and one hundred thousand million galaxies, I would expect some variety. But the astronomer affected surprise...
Jim Harrington
Testing, Testing I awoke sweating like a A. Mormon at an anti-bigamy conference. B. farmer facing down a rabid donkey. C. truck driver steering his semi down an icy road. I assumed I'd...
Vivien Jones
Uffizi Florence,Spring 2006 We lounge in the 8.30 am queue watching the marbled living statues for so long, we grow bored and speak instead of how quickly the tourists stride across the...
Sean Colletti
Quicklime A tanker is carrying quicklime and hits a lamppost in Ashfield at 19:00. You are watching TV in Ashfield. It is 19:00. Quicklime. Freshman biology slides off the tight- ropes...
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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