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.
Charles G Lauder's 'Tree of Desire'
Tree of DesireWere there ever a tree of desireladened with the fruit of temptationit grew in her back garden.Juices streamed down beaksstained feathers like drops of rainwhen the peach flesh was...
Nicola Belte's 'Scissors, Paper, Stone'
Scissors, Paper, StoneGlitter and glue. Paper. Scissors. Child’s ones, with red plastic handles and blunt edges. Safe. She’s making decorations, poking out her tongue, like I do. We sit...
Donal Mahoney proposes…
Cats At Their Bowls Lapping This time there’s a postscript:“If ever I cook dinner for you,it will be Coquilles St. Jacquesand Jefferson Davis Pie.” Imagine Angela,after all these...
Tess Jolly's 'The Hatch'
The Hatch Each night I do the rounds, monitor hearts’ contractions by lamplight’s gleam, press nerves down crumpled spines and wrap skin round bones as paper holds a watermark’s...
Ivor Murrell's 'Buttercup'
ButtercupThe boy was coaxed into the roomclad for the first timein his new school uniformnothing was saidthe heavy silence in the dim lightwarned of a new unknownleaden on the bedhis fearful eyes...
Words and Image by Jim Davis
Hot Water Portrait: TranslationI said Reader, There’s romance in the article of how-to-burn-a-bush, of dusk with highway; trains. Let me explain how the pull-cord gesture damns the overpass. Orpheus...
Jenny Holden's 'Enclosure'
Enclosure The clock will follow the man, insofar as it will follow anyone. First, he must learn how to die. Then, how to live. There will be a desire to mark out, build walls and square off edges....
Eleanor Leonne Bennett's 'Space Between Books'
*Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 15 year old photographer and artist who has won contests with National Geographic,The Woodland Trust, The World Photography Organisation, Winstons Wish, Papworth...
A prose poem from Dorothy Fryd
ΠI got the tattoo because it is irrational. I got the tattoo because I used to hate maths. I got the tattoo because Pi reminds me of my late Grandfather. I got the tattoo because I want it to...
Lynn Beighley's 'Wish I Had'
Wish I Had A pet scorpion. A pet scorpion named Chris.(1) A deceased scorpion named Chris encased in...
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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