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.
Joanna Boulter enters A Land of Pagodas
A Land of PagodasThis is a land of pagodas. Everywhereyou turn, you’re faced with another.They are where the gods live, just handyfor the bazaar, so that they can come downfrom their high places to...
A new poem from Tony Williams
Those of usThose of us who were out last night planting beans in the sunwho were woken by a seabirddrumming on the roof of the cabinand found the pitch of the boat had loosened while we were...
Larry Kimmel's Meadow Gospel
Meadow Gospel Where the grass is luxurious, she lies with an arm across her eyes, her skirt to mid-thigh. What the mind can’t spit, you live with as a kind of shrapnel or...
Tony Vowles' Zen moment
After Zen My moment came when the old manshowed me the outside of the inside door: Don't show me your sufferingshow me your insight! and I knew my wagging tail steered me,heard...
Ross Hattaway is standing on the river bed
Finke River, Hermannsburg, 1988The celebration is on the coast.Here I stand in the middle of a river bedforty million years deep. This land that is ownedand not ownedin ten minutesowns me.The...
Susan Rukeyser wants this to go no further
Mother LiesWe’ll keep this between us, okay? Yesterday, my boy was wild. He whooped and circled, dodged the tall thin trunks of Longleaf Pines. Bare feet stamped a...
Donall Dempsey is awake and dreaming
The Dream's DreamGarlanded with moonlightyour body dreamsas I, awakenedby the moonlight’s touchupon my sleepingskingaze with admirationof this paintingthat the moonlightpaints of you.Behind your...
Julia Groves is the envy of Cleopatra
The Envy of Cleopatra The kohl painted eyes of Cleopatrawould flash to darkest greenif they could ever seethe top of my lover’s headtanned and shiny, like a beautiful nutas it is bowed to menot...
Dave Migman is arranging the mask
Arranging the maskAs you stare at the shadowthat clouds the wall of the nightyou sense the solidity of presenceyou shiver deep inside whenyou’re splayed nakedgrappling the inner pulseout of depth...
New flash fiction from Charlie Wirth
Pre Pre-SchoolWhat can kids possibly learn from the school before pre-school? I learned one thing: How to play with toy dinosaurs.There was one thing on my mind: get to the coolest dinosaur before...
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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