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.
Ariane Synovitz is watching the brides parade
Parade of brides The Baltic Sea is my goal. I drive to the end of Europe, where the land melts step by step until it is only waves. First love is like a faith. We believed so much and we knew...
Frances Atkins can't face the apple crumble
Angela Greynor, Recently Gone Walking through the door,I know this isn’t our kitchen. Your phone is on the counter,my coat hung up on the back door. Maybe I can’t recognise, not...
Two poems from the long sequence "Mouth" by James Sutherland-Smith
from Mouth17.Slow, dumb, wordless music of the mouth,that pursing, twisting, indrawing of the lipsI know so well from a lifewatching your face before I speak.What can I say, white rose,knowing that...
Sue Ellis has found an abundance
Abundance1.Pinched back, propped upoverripe tomatoesstar kiss fuzzed vines.Red cranial orbstelecommunicatinggelatinous pink thoughts –bite me . . bite me.2.Tired cornstalks, picked cleanplay...
New flash fiction by Larry Kimmel
On The Verge Of AutumnI'd seen her about town often enough – pleasingly plump, neatly dressed, with snow-white hair that belied her age, and such blue eyes. And now we were sharing a store...
Benjamin Blake experiences his first real winter
My First Real Winter The rain beat down in double timeIn comparison to the metronome like dripOf droplets in stainless steel pansSmoke casts shadows over lined paperAsh falls like snow flakes,...
Leland Thoburn is no longer feeling brittle
BrittleIt had been five years. Five years of interminable aching before I could sleep, and five years of disbelieving when I awoke. Five years of not knowing what to do with myself at breakfast,...
Richard Lambert is at the floating harbour
The Floating HarbourThe harbour wall is as high as a ship;a lock keeps the water up – the angled iron-and-wooden gatesno longer hold a fortune but ...
Rob A. Mackenzie on the empty page
World Class World class reputation became so much the norm among amateurs who had reviewed me positively that a cabinet for intangible effects was built, something like a cardboard box but not...
Lucy Winrow remembers New Brighton
New BrightonAmongst the clunk of metal Dock yards and bitter sand storms Our feet dapple the spongy sand Marking, that we’ll get washed awayBreathlessly pressed up against the fort, The rock at my...
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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