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.
Outside Emma Morgan's Bookshop
Outside my bookshopI have spent the afternoon dreamily reading‘Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance’I am still thinking of Buddhist camshaftsWhen the shoplifter who has done over the children’s...
Kim Farleigh's 'Vast Present'
A Vast PresentTwo men in black T-shirts and black boots boarded the bus. One stretched out on a seat and closed his eyes. The other sat facing the first one. “I love fucking fat women!”...
Daniel Adey's 'The Auspices'
The Auspices You underestimate yourself when you open your mouth I listen these offerings, your mere crumbs if I told you how they fill me up It's spring and the geese are coming in to...
Francesca Pridham's 'Grace'
Grace You have taken every bone,white cupped in your hand.As simple as breath eased in and out you carried each piece in turn and laid me down. The night opens...
'Deep Hum' by Juliet West
Deep Hum She is sealing the letter when the hum starts. The house had been silent; the heating turned off this mild November morning and only a sullen pigeon on the telegraph wire outside. The...
Thomas Ország-Land's 'Jolly Joker'
The Jolly Joker of Jerusalem First things first when the holy books burstand lime pits are plannedin this thirsty, troubled land of passionand beauty and flavour,and the mind is minedfor the...
Stav Poleg's 'Athena of the City'
From Athena of the cityIAthena of the city,there’s no Acropolis here, in what August makes out of this place, upturned umbrellas and wind of high-pitch, the summerof sales and last-chances.So I try...
Nikolai Duffy's 'Plainchant'
Plainchant (Voyages)All day we travel and the way is hard going. For fourteen weeks and two days we have been those souls in the wilderness. But now must we pack up and be gone from this thicket....
Bill Winchester's 'The edge of a continent'
The edge of a continent I’d filled the XL fast food soda cup with 2 Budweisers and I walked out of the motel to the beach. There was no one out there except for the seagulls and...
Robin Houghton's 'Night Visitors'
Night VisitorsWe come when the moon looks away,when cats crouch unblinking under carsand we know they won’t talk, or care,when people are watching TV, as the streetclaims a moment of peace. You...
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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