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.
Natalie Caulfield's 'Reasons'
ReasonsBecause the blue moles eat of earth with their clawsand sometimescome blindly toward the light;for simply having doneall one could imagine wanting to.A pinnacle is merelyslipping with no...
Harry Owen on turning tides
Mene Mene Tekel UpharsinNow the tide pours in, surf highon the beach, a panting sea mistlike the tongue of a weary dog.But no tsunami, no expertarrogance of plutonium.No Japan. And yet...
Janice Windle's 'Bitter Spring'
bitter spring out of the muddisembodied hands and feetmy dead neighbours aid packages cometied up with UK red tapereturned to sender cherry blossom latedebris in the leafless...
At least says Heather Lenz
At LeastI saw the scar in the mirrorlast night after showering.The bandage finally releasedfrom my skin & Iran my fingers alongmy breast, moving forward & sideways to inspectthe shape &...
New flash fiction: Tom Mahony is worried about biohazards
BiohazardIn the newspaper he read about a massive earthquake in South America. He went to the store and purchased the ingredients for an earthquake kit. On cable news he saw breathless coverage of...
Another Word & Image from our Artist in Residence C. Albert: Prayer
Prayer You were bubbles of wonder when we met that went pop, pop, pop. Each strike by electric shock made you forget. You came to my studio for a drawing class that day...
Anita McQueen is oscillating in the darkness
OSCILLATINGI see myselfin the elongated mirror playingtic-tac-toe with red lipstick,Xs and Os over my skinslick with summer heat,oscillating fan sweeping my moodback and forth my weight on each bare...
Edwin Stockdale has a smile by design
Smiles by DesignThe brickwork drab and crumbling.Leaves gust along the streetsettling on the beer hatch.The pub name is spelt wrong.A smile tugs the corner of my mouth.At the Pitcher and Piano the...
Romit Berger is on the road (+ illustration)
The Road Eyes shut. She is driving. She cracks narrow slits of vision to warn her of a bend in the road. Granted a godly favor, she eludes a dreadful crash.Eyes thoroughly shut. Sleeping mind...
Agnieszka Studzinska’s Dog Woman
Dog Woman (Paula Rego) The leaded grey of pencil and charcoalare cross hatched waters rupturing,her mouth opens to the beast in us - she howls at first gently like a wolf as the moon opens wider...
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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