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.
David Morley on December
A Boy Casting Snow on Winter BarleyA variation of Paul Celan The months are hairs combed over each other, or crushed papers in a cellar. December is growing, fur on my lip....
Andrew McCallum Crawford on more of the weird and wonderful
The Weird and Wonderful World of TEFL #11 - #14# 11 Yanni brings me a bottle of Amstel and returns to his corner. I pour a glassful. It's flat. 'Yanni!' He comes over....
Diane Becker is juggling butterflies
Butterflies are the souls of dead babiesWhen he leaves, she collects all the caterpillars she can find at the bottom of the garden and sits cross-legged in the shade of the buddleia. She makes a...
SJ Fowler has 12 more to come
the first bind of Saint Eurydice She seems not to be affected by the gouge. Her eyes blink quickly, trying to protect her from the ammonia. It is not fear that makes her eyes so agitated, she...
Roddy Lumsden on exactly why not
I Will Not Marry You because I frighten easilybecause I was born once bitten unready for loveand because...
Adam Warne maps the tourist
A Tourist Afterwards the map becameplaces to contemplate rather than visit,names or sounds to lingerin the troubled gut,scratches and bites to heal. In a cold bath, perhaps asleep,he looks...
Ben Rasnic is snow-blind
SNOW-BLIND In early April ...
Victoria Vasterling has grit between her fingertips
Throwing Whirring and grindingpressing and touchingmoist and bendingwanting to be madeinto something of significance.Pulling and pushing, grit between fingertipsGlobs of slush on wristsWheel...
Joanna Weston is looking at forgotten things
GLAZING you sing as you wash windows – I climb on the chesterfield so we can kiss through glass# # # # # THINGS FORGOTTENin my top desk drawer:expired passport stamped for Mexico and Francecracked...
Kerry Featherstone is watching doves fly
Doves Flying from Gravel in the CemeteryLa Petite Maine, pouring silentlythough Montaigu across the water-meadow.I come up its banks, and through the stained gates.Then strain for resurrection:the...
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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