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.
Tim Bedford is looking at an old cat sitting in the sun
The Old Cat She sits in the sun,most days,enjoying what’s leftof time.She walks sideways now,accompanied by three limps.Her yellow, glaring eyespass commenton the speed ofmice these...
Aneliya Siderova is watching bridges
Our thanks to Vanessa Gebbie for submitting this poem on behalf of one of her friends...BridgesOn Thursdays I cross the bridge over the railwayOn Fridays I cross the river bridgeOn Saturdays, there...
Lorna Thorpe on self-help literature
Mind, body and spirit In the literature of self-helpthere are no empty whiskey bottles,no cigarettes rolled from fag endssalvaged from 3 a.m. ashtrays, no fools in love. There are...
Brian Cole's Hard Winter
Hard WinterA thrush clickedin a frozen thicketits beak, metallic,flicked on a stoneagain and againtill a mollusc crackedand was gulped, so quickyou could mistake itfor a cold quiverof the...
Degna Stone has some advice on unwanted advice
How to Avoid Giving Unwanted AdviceHold your tongue still with your teeth.Feel the sharp white line press downuntil it threatens to draw blood.Slip into the silencesuntil your head is...
Justin Hyde learns Lesson #27
lesson #27 not really chokingjust cutting offcirculation like this she shows mehow to holdthe red bungeejust so. she's onher kneesin front ofa full length...
WN Herbert is caught in the night rain
Night Rain in EmprosnerosFor once the mountains that peer down through the vine at uslike giant scientists, sheer aunts with pine-pocked octopus skin,vanished before nightfall behind a mat of...
C. Albert’s ‘The Meaning of Roundling’
A poem (with image) from our artist/poet in residence C. Albert. Flora the Poet The Meaning of Roundling With the edges of our eyes, we catch glimpses of roundlings...
Angus Sinclair's Memory Plates
Memory PlatesMemory plates glide over one another.Like two facing windows, a hall of mirrors:slow, shifting images - your infant...
Fiona Sinclair is looking under the counter
Under the Counter Stroking fake furs convincing as cleverimpressionists, my hand is pricked bythe pine needle pelt of genuine mink.The coat is no peroxide starlet but ahooded, calf length...
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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