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.
Deborah Alma
Still LifeRigby’s approach is to sweep things under the carpet.Sometime, he hoovers them up,But then he can’t sleepImagines them still alive in the clear plastic cylinder,The ugly words,The cunts...
Josk Ekroy
Chapter VIIThe love-making of crocodiles takes place underthe sludge-dark water. They warble,splatter and rub the undersidesof yellow-white jaws while...
Maureen Weldon
Watching the Feather Standing on the rooftopin a red coat, he watched the feather float,first higher then spiralling out of control.In the cold snowy air many heads turned...
Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal
I Look all Crazy Don’t tell me what to do.I am the voice of reason. My one blind eye sees all.The other one sees nothing. I look all crazy inthe mirror. I am not who I think I...
David Mac
After Lorca I will sip orange until she finds meI will only play with cats I will hang my thoughts in the bare winter treesI won’t laugh like birds But I will wait through these hard...
Matthew Friday
Held Middle-aged woman with long black hair,thin stem of a bodysunglasses on a grey daystops to sniff roses outside the Parish Church of the Holy Gospel,bending each one down to herdrawing in...
On Love and Winter
Love symbols spoken in a Chinese winter I am grown tall in the telling of the yellowthat the dance leaves a signal for, finishing the ridge in a luminous squall,wanting your white elk-breath and the...
Amy Rafferty
PétursdóttirPétursdóttir took a boat all the way to Svalbard. With a little seed cupped in her little hand. The seed was her father and the boat was her love and Svalbard was the only safe place she...
Susannah Pickering
CoatShades of earth & skywith me between themwalkingon a blue morningyour red ticket stubin the cold lined pocketbluntedslipping through fingersleaving me wanting *Susannah Pickering is a poet,...
Iain Britton
through the halo burnt mirror …autumn leaves cracklebrown dust skids off paths and an assortment of hibiscus dangles raggedly==the lady in my bedroomputs herself...
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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