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.
Sunil Sandhu has some reasons for staying in
With the bank holiday weekend in the UK fizzling out under a rain cloud, this next piece pretty much sums up every miserable wet-weekend disco we've ever been too...A reason to stay inMen glance...
Emma Rozanski tosses polkadots over her shoulders
PolkadotsShe tosses polka dots over her shoulders, red and white voices giggling to strangers, "yoo-hoo cutie!" One false eyelash ready to pounce, one blue eye covering brown on the lookout. Bright...
G W Colkitto says no knife is necessary
NO KNIFE NEEDEDNo knife needed to cut and slash,or heated iron to burn the flesh,in memory’s blast the mind recoiled.Flayed beneath history’s lash,recall loss and failure and...
Abi Wyatt is riding the coat-tails of summer
Ensign I heard your voiceas it hitched a rideon the coat-tailsof summer. At its slow inflectiona world unfurled,bobbed likea painted sail. I cast off nowin fear of the edgeand in...
The IS&T 2009 anthology is now available
The 2009 Ink Sweat & Tears anthology is now available. In fact it should have been available weeks ago but IS&T knuckle-dragging publisher Charles Christian couldn't get his act together...
New American poetry: Carmen Eichman says banish the bastards
Banished BastardsThis is where trees wrapshadows about my shoulders,cool, uncorrupt.Breezes beckon, tell me timeis well. White Dahlias, Orange Lillies,gregarious pink Geraniumsplant lush...
Susan Utting says it's too late
Too Late Too late to cross your fingers now, there'sblood on them, a splinter under the skinand seven years of it, if you believe it. You believe it, too, like magpies and the...
Flash Fiction: Paul Beckman is taking another train ride
ANOTHER TRAIN RIDE As we approached New Haven Station you walked up towards the front of the car, near my seat, waiting for the train to stop. It moved slowly, in herky-jerky motions. You...
Angela France has a doppelganger
DoppelgängerShe is anywhere before metying thread on significant twigs or following behindleaving...
Luis is on a mission to search and destroy
SEARCH AND DESTROY I hear the windrubbing palm leavestogether; thesound of speedingcars, engines, birds;a woman's sneeze,children laughing,someone whistling;old men and oldwomen...
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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