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.
Vanessa Gebbie is watching angels glide
Robert Mills Architectural Antiques, Narroways Road, BristolLook. High up there, against the rotting...
Geoff Stevens says I'm not a metre cheetah
Regular IS&T contributor and stalwart of the West Midlands/Black Country poetry scene Geoff Stevens says he has "received a lot of emails recently from evangelical poetry bodies that are...
David Tait has a sonnet for sale
Sonnet for Sale Unused, in good condition, unpublished.Precise metre, several painstaking drafts,all darlings murdered in cold blood, one finishedconceit running through it like life-raftson a...
Duncan Jones says what we are all thinking about the weather
Cold SnapMy fridge is warmer than my kitchen.My woolly socks are really itchin’I am staying warm by all my bitchin’.Minus ten on the way to Tesco.Driving along on the ice and snow.More slippery than...
Flash fiction: Bobby Parker says Robin Hood is not a man in tights
TightsSunday dinner at the in-laws’ house. The heat was unbearable, the newspaper said that it was hotter in the West Midlands than it is in Rio, Brazil. My wife helped her mother in the kitchen...
Dan Wyke is high on The Downs
The Downs Getting out of town for the daywas disappointing what with the chewed up grassthe sun like honey in porridgeand the high point that never came into view. Some bloke was setting...
Luis Berriozabal is watching the mountains
THE MOUNTAIN HEAD In the mountainsstraight up aheadimagine snowas gray hair andas the snow fallsin the mountainsthe gray hair growsand grows and spreadsthroughout the headof the mountain.Its...
Helen Pletts tastes the salt of another shore
As you wake on the salt of another shore I stand in the garden with the car fob,Announcing the song of automation;That bird which talks fatigue itself out of the belly of night,Waves the small...
Agnes Lehoczky offers us a glimpse of autumn
The Flight Feathers’ TaleAn autumn trip. Inside the house of numerous gardens. A passage indoors. Across a hall of mirrors. A walk in is a walk out. A concave one into a convex one. Dependent....
Richard Ball is looking at the roadside colours
Roadside colours Pink, purple sunset colours,Now autumnal yellow, brown.Slowly fading:Sun-wrought transmutation. He’d worshipped that star.Bronzed skin andA girl on each armHis laurel...
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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