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.
Thomas Ország-Land on Bernard Kops
This Room in the Sunlight Collected Poems by Bernard Kops, David Paul Publishing, London, 2010, £9.99p, Paperback, 132pp., ISBN 9780954848262Among the greatest events of British literature this...
Melanie Browne's 'Ash'
Ash In your poems I hear the devils’ trill,and isn’t that the charm?In your eyes I see volcanic ash,love, isn’t that the draw?I listen to Neruda in His native tongue,it makes me thirsty, yet all I...
Michael Estabrook is wondering
I’m wondering –If I were riding my bicyclein the Tour de France, a littleahead of the Pelotonwith a chance of winning a stage,this stage, Stage 7 or 9 or 12,and rounding a turn I came upon...
Some short prose from Adam Smith
Your Reservation Code Is MWDX9768Through driving rain on the boundless, endless motorways of England, from estuary to city to harbour and back. From M4 to M5. Megabus and Megatrain and one pound...
Jay Passer can see the future but
I can see the future but it's not seeing and it's not the futureof spiritual worlds where music is the absence of evening newschewing like a rat through a prison walla mole blind to the...
Julia Stothard's 'Bone Chimes'
Bone Chimes When I wouldn’t singthey plucked me naked. I slipped my skin. Pecked bone-cleanI clatter madly. In the garden you can hear me hanging from the...
Austin McCarron's 'Stolen Child'
The Stolen ChildI am the stolen child,peasant of air,blue thighed, with my gift of spring, who plays with animals of light.In crowded cities ownersof death pay me in trances.I shine like the sun of...
Some ekphrasis from Theresa Williams
vii. millions of eyes, henningdear henning,i wonder if in germany you ever watch old american gangster films. in them, everything is heavy … cars,telephones, and...
Two poems from Judith Mensch
I like the Woods in WinterI like the woods in winterWhen there’s no snow on the groundAnd the shadows of long lean treesHidden by summers greenAppear.How intriguingThat just as the air turns...
Two poems from Peter Eustace
Ghetto Fashion Word was out we shouldGet the red stars. The yellow onesWere going to expire.So we spent all morningQueuing for the new version.I thought What if they changeTheir minds again?And...
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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