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.
Cynthia Ruth Lewis's 'Squares'
Squares Not really, no—things weren't going too smoothly,I remember telling you this morningin the laundry room, the words stickingin my throat like lint in a trap, as I foldedand...
Dan Wyke's 'Days of March'
Days of March1Cycling home from work, I followed a pink grapefruitrolling slowly down New England Road.It kept reappearing from under the cars queuing at the lights.At the bottom of the hill I...
Brian Johnstone's 'One for the Road'
One for the RoadThe headlights beam into the dark, illuminating silence the vehicle moves into,distant till it dopplers past, a fan of lightthat breaks upon a sky so full of starsit’s nothing but...
Kevin Ridgeway is in Times Square
Pacing Outside of a Hamburger Joint in Times Square When I was seventeen years oldI lived in my brother’s window sillover looking the George Washington Bridgeriding the trains and prowling the...
Charles Christian’s ‘This is The Quickest Way Down’
Exciting news from IS&T founding editor Charles Christian:This is The Quickest Way Down is a new collection of dark fantasy, dystopian sci-fi and urban gothic ghost stories by Ink Sweat &...
Dan Micklethwaite's 'Death Burlesque'
Death BurlesqueThere is no music.There is a body. Clothed.Furs and feathers. He has caught them all.He takes a rifle, powder, lead. He used to lie flat in the dirt, waiting for days sometimes just...
Ben Rasnic's 'Scenes from an Earlier Life'
Scenes from an Earlier Life (Lee Theater, Pennington Gap, Va.)Before sealing its doors in ’78it was THE place to be Saturday nights,line forming from the ticket booth stretchingdown Morgan Avenue,...
William Bedford's Angel
The Angel with the RucksackI used to believe in angelsthe way we were taught to believe,but my angel with a rucksackseemed to arrive from nowhere,like plates flying across a kitchen,children...
Myfanwy Fox's Summer Christmas
In Season The shimmer of a sun-scorched mackerel skyreflects in heat-haze off a sweating road;bakes plate glass windows: the shop an ovencooking beach-read books, tangled strappy...
Greyhound
Greyhound In the thin rain, the theatrical frame of a greyhound; a slip of grey felt shrug on the weathering ribs, emblazoned with a voluminous pale pink shiver of ballerina. Was it...
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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