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.
Ljubica Trninic's 'Outlines'
OutlinesI have dreamt about waterThe sea watersalty as sweat,dripping over medrying my face,taking away my tears.I have dreamt about a lobsterthat is crossing a seacoast,coming towards...
Matt Merritt's 'Chirimoya'
ChirimoyaCustard apple. Sweetsop. Guanabana.Mostly, it’s the human heart, its skin – green or yellow, thick or thin – marked as if moulded by the fingers of everyone who touched it.Picked too...
Virginie Colline's 'insomnie marine'
insomnie marinethe salt of insomnia burns my templesI pick up black shells along the endless shoreaquamarine eternitywhite surf dancing under the roof of summer*Virginie Colline is a French...
Some darkness from Claire Walker
The Woman Who Loved Every Man I collect them. Devote myself to it.Reminders on corkboards, pinned by pointed tacks as tokens of attention.Sometimes in scrapbooks:Hair gently trimmed during...
Zdenek sells Physalis alkekengi at Dejvická in December
Zdenek sells Physalis alkekengi at Dejvická in December With him, at the dark, open jaw of the metro, Orange lanterns, that shoulder their own light. Tangerine knuckles to electrify the drawn...
The Fifth Day of Christmas
WhenAngels understand eternity. Always causes mortals trouble as they try to grasp the absence of an afterwards or believe before has been emptied of all meaning. Angels speak to shepherds first....
The Fourth Day of Christmas
Forecast for 28 December, 2011 This is it: even at noon the fields can raise a crop of furrow shadow.Hedges are flailed pension plans for fieldfares,and rooks spell out in shifting pictogramswhat...
Some flash from Andrew McCallum Crawford
Bar, Graphite on Paper, 2011The place smells stale, it smells of things that have been bottled up too long and are beginning to seep out. He positions himself at the bar. The tumbler is thick,...
David Calcutt's 'Stone Meets a Ghost'
Stone Meets a GhostStone’s just standing around among the ruinsHe’s waiting in the shadows to see the sun come upA ghost comes along It’s weepingIt has no shape no face It looks like mist it...
Jonathan Pinnock's 'Lost for Words'
Lost for WordsIt had to be said that poetrywas not histhing,but needs must when Eros callsand this time the God wasbellowing.He ordered onlineand the words were deliveredby a man in a vanwith...
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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