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.
Gill McEvoy
October Fourteen was the number of the bus that took me to St Cloud, the house at number fourteen in the square, a Georgian house turned into flats - fourteen occupants lived...
Harriet Worrell
Vulpes vulpes It began with an old shoe placed at my front door. A brown brogue, left, size 9. Scuffed at the toe, worn unevenly at the heel. I placed it on the wall at the...
Roddy Williams
Our back yard 1965-2011 I'd like a stop motion movie of this public statement of change One photo taken every day from the bus passing our back garden on its way to Relief...
Pat Edwards
Dance Perhaps it came after the unsteady standing, those first tottering steps into daddy’s arms; nursery tunes demanding a physical response, forcing me to shake and...
Michéle Beck
Siblings I can remember raw eggs sat sweating in cups dried scabs splitting into islands, as we banged together our knees under the table He was the older one but I the fiercer...
Tom Kelly
Rattling Memories For Margaret Henderson (Nee Cumisky) I went for you. You could never afford to go. Ireland was a dream of yours. In Galway’s Eyre Square, your voice became...
Jane Lovell
Shingle In time, he became shingle, spent his days shifting up the coast, piling quietly into the river mouth, buggering up the Harbour channel. Hulls of ships grated on...
Matthew Friday
3 Swans Arrive in Prague They arrive clothed in April keenness, three Valkyries, a cloudy V made for smaller birds. They fly across the face of the National Theatre: golden...
Sarah Wimbush
Vixen I wait outside my daughter's boyfriend’s house. Ignition off. Radio low. I rarely feel my hackles rise at my desk, or in Tescos, but here, a flicker creeps into my...
Natalie Shaw
Night punting to standstill We could see nothing Except the fizz Of our cigarettes We did not know Where the edge of the water Met the boat, or bank Our eyes were shut Or not,...
Poetry Picks
Our favourite poems and ‘best of’ chosen from each month between 2007 and 2019
Deborah McClean
Milk and Honey It's 22:37 and I look down and see you. You've had another hard day; I'm not surprised you look so sad. I'm sure you are thinking of the good old days; those days when you were idle; those days when you were framed in soft fabrics: lace and...
Robert Ford
Lobster tail Uncommon to find such a thing up here, beyond the exhausted seaweed, vacated mussel shells and limp trawlermen’s gloves in bleached out blue or yellow rubber, their fingers often present if somewhat perished; but there it was, cradled among...
Grant Tarbard
Gingham Have you ever seen a scarecrow's babe? On a rough hessian teat nuzzling, mewling at the shadow of out-of-the-way crows, Death's hands in the sky, lunatics of dew’s drench. Poultices in the shape of water weep from the burdened old moon's...
Stephen Daniels
cheap this love was battered eventually it started naked with its scales shining and its eyes vacant now they are covered coated and ready a flick of batter to test the temperature followed by a splash and disruption of fat to make...
January 2018’s ‘Pick of the Month’ is ‘Bit Parts’ by David Riley
From a wonderfully varied group that included both Word & Image and prose poetry, voters went for the poem that most spoke to them directly and David Riley's 'Bit Parts' is the Pick of the Month for January 2018. David is studying for an MA at the Seamus...
Julie Irigaray
Drunken Roses The curtains' psychedelic pattern is the only touch of sunshine in this flat. Beyond them, two artificial moons radiate tumours in the cemented garden and the city's carrot bricks are prison walls pinching the sky. Inside, heads drooping,...
Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga
Haibun, Tanka, Haiku, & Haiga reviously published on the website.
New haibun by Jeff Winke
The Leather Tassels on ThemGordon Johnson is an actuary. By day he plies hisconservative trade assessing and projecting financialrisks from natural catastrophes, mortality, andmorbidity. He wears the modern equivalent of the grayflannel suit: a blue blazer, cornflower...
Haiga – John Irvine's been reading too much Harry Potter
* John Irvine's a regular IS&T contributor
New haiga by Ed Baker
* Ed Baker's bio reads...born 1941here 2008everythingin between...boring!
New haiga by Rachel Green
* Regular IS&T contributor Rachel Green is a novel writer who will shortly become an novel author, but she starts every day with walking her dogs and writing poetry. Books of haiku available from www.leatherdyke.co.uk
Alexis Rotella remembers a simpler time
* Alexis Rotella is a regular contributor of both traditional and digital haiga to IS&T. We're publishing this today because the sun is shining and it feels like the start of spring.
New haiga by Jeffrey Winke
* Jeffrey Winke is a regular IS&T contributor – we'll be publishing some of his latest haibun over the next few weeks.
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.
I'm all right now – stick poetry animation by Landon Morgan
i'm all right now.• Landon Morgan says "i'm twenty five. i grew up in bartlesville oklahoma. marketing degree from OU. studied abroad in taipei, taiwan. film school in vancouver bc canada. graduated with "honours"...stupid canadians. moved to nashville, played...
Poetry Writing – a film by Gemma Claire Amos
The Foxhole Manifesto by Jeffrey McDaniel
Time for another example of multimedia/e-poetry – this time The Foxhole Manifesto by the US poet Jeffrey McDaniel. The running time is just over 4 minutes and the animation is by Nick Fox-Greig.
The Dead – an animated poem by Billy Collins
This is another animation of a Billy Collins poem - The Dead. The animation is by Juan Delcan of Spontaneous.
Forgetfulness – an animated Billy Collins poem
When we set up IS&T, one of the genre we wanted to cover was e-poetry in its broadest sense including Flash animation. Check out this example - the poem is by the onetime US poet laureate Billy Collins and the animation by Julian Grey of Headgear - the piece runs...
Blogs and news
Blogs and archived news from 2007 to 2020.
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Reviews
Archived reviews from 2007 to 2020.
Wynn Wheldon reviews Wendy Pratt’s ‘Museum Pieces’
It is difficult to write about big subjects without...
David Cooke reviews ‘Looking for Larkin’ by Jules Smith
Looking for Larkin is the first full length collection of...
Janni Howker reviews Sue Millard’s ‘Ash Tree’
The Brightness It is a testament to Sue Millard’s exceptional skill as a poet that the poems in her collection “Ash...
Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
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