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.
Short prose from Kate White
"Everything So Blue"I am dreaming hard about heat. About fire. It's been fifteen years, the memory now brittle lace. My hand is splayed in birdcage fashion. Four pink fingers are latched...
Olivia McCannon's 'Argyle Street'
Argyle Street 1983The stone setts ripped from Argyle Street Were dumped by the council for freeAs a heap of odd angles in our...
Carrie Etter's 'Birthmother's Handbook'
The Birthmother’s Handbook Choose another name for yourself, another city.Prepare for the nuisance of the body,a variegated allotment of pain and difficultythat presages old age. Rub your...
Jason Ryberg's 'Stars and Crickets'
Stars and CricketsWhy don't you come on outto my place, baby?Let me give you the guided tour.Just take Old 40five miles or so,out past the signal-lightand Dewey's Auto Salvage,'round Ms....
Some ekphrasis from Neil Campbell
Hotel by a Railroad The hotel by the railroad was our home, and it fit my life as though the tracks going by were the memories of moving youth and the hotel itself the stable stopping off point of...
David Mac's 'Sleeper'
The Sleeper he stalked thru the world feeling the flowers as he ran every time he lost it it was usually found under his bed in the evening as the sun went down he looked up the...
Maxwell Baumbach's 'Nursing'
Nursing after sneaking onto the roof of the apartmentmy friends and I break out the scotch and cigars they drink from fancy glasseslike my dead relative hadwhile I drink mine from a used...
Peter Eustace translates Arnaldo Ederle
After John DonneThy firmnes draws my circle justAnd makes me end, where I begunne.History turns and these points also turnone to the other measuring the distanceof the pearl fixing the mute chant of...
Some ekphrasis from Padrika Tarrant
After Lartigue A voiceless yelping,the air like translucent tardog thrown in the pond. That sudden splash, likethe great wide world's end, the lungsburning, astounded. Muzzle in...
Janette Ayachi's 'Sea-Rattle'
Sea-RattleThe sound of the sea reaches our tenement...
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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