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.
John Grey and ‘That Goat Man’
That Goat Man So you have a goat do you, a strange animal that cuts your grass with relentless teeth and smells like ten goats.And then, when the grass can go no lower,he’s into the purple...
Two short poems from Larry Jones
For YouThe grocery clerk turns redas my wife yells at mesomething about not enough money.But, I don't reacttill we get back to the carthen we have at it.See,I don't like arguing in...
Agnes Lehoczky's 'I's Notebook'
I’s NotebookThere are a lot of cities I would like not to remember. To talk of them as if they weren’t. As if those cities had not existed before. There has to be a hole in the membrane of memory...
Gareth Spark's 'Repairs'
RepairsGrit dust lifts in a dry wind blown over the ruin’s stones,Corkscrews in clouds of white pepper, rattles into the closed vanAnd my eyes as I work at the repairs.Everything in the yard is...
David Meuel on 'That Evil Y Chromosome'
That Evil Y Chromosome A couple of weeks ago I met this guy online who seemed like a real gentleman. Not like all those creeps...
Nancy Campbell's 'The Cemetery'
The CemeteryWe settled here, scarcely believing our fortune,no more to scull the seas. The island was safe butthere were many deaths: driven by the darkness men killed their kin; others drowned in...
'Ivory Soap' from Maria Jayne
Ivory SoapI used to want to be a priest when I was little and my mother said, “You can be anything you set your mind to” On Tuesdays we used to go to the health food shop after my brother had...
Cynthia Ruth Lewis's 'Diluted'
DilutedBlinded in the supermarket, walking dumbly through theaisles, packing my cart high with sustenance; steaks,breads, cakes, hoping to put some flesh back on yourwhittled frame, hoping your...
Two short poems from Ian Chung
Breaking Up For DummiesDear [name of ex-to-be], There is no easy way to break the news to you, [blundered attempt at tact]. I...
Wendy Ann Greenhalgh is on Exmoor
Exmoor I couldn’t tell what it was at first. I was barely awake. The mist curdled over the heather and the dawn cry of the curlews kept whipping the clouds up and up - so that whatever 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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