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.
Sarah Ahmad has a poetry/art broadside for us
* Sarah Ahmad lives in Pakistan. She describes this piece as poetry/art broadside.
John Grey is watching the salmon run
IF SALMON RUN So many fish are clearing the dams this year.Thanks to the heavy rainfall of coursebut maybe the urge for the spawning placesis riper than weariness and gravity. Look out the...
Jane Monson's negative theology
Via NegativaMy mother was not Christ, but she was spat at. My father was not Christ, but he didn’t always know this. The two of them met in a garden, but they were not Adam and Eve. And when my...
Larry Kimmel writes an elegy
October Elegy After the burial she walked with me,Where tall trees, standing in a clearSunlight, cast strict shadows acrossThe drive – a woman just past fifty,Elegant and gracious, lovely to...
An extract from a new poem by Moniza Alvi
3. Better By Far By bus?Better by far a magic carpetfinely knotted, richerthan blood, broad enoughto keep the family together,islanded, apartfrom every danger,journeying...
Catherine Edmunds is watching the developers
developersthe cracks in the memory of childhood summersare turning boot polish blackthe hillonce a site for a thousand tumblesthrough singing grassesnow lies barren: home to creeping machinesa mound...
New prose: Ariane Synovitz is on holiday
Les grandes vacances For a child, two months is an eternity. An eternity of watching the shape of clouds change: the ground sinks into my back, bugs tickle my arms and the afternoon...
Two lion poems from Chris Beckett
The Night Lion Dust devils, scratchy wind, a boy who hearing things has got up and parted the tent flap, steps out to find himself in the court of the Night Lion. Neither...
New flash fiction by Jac Cattaneo
The Rain That FallsI’m drenched, but she’s holding up well. The beach is jumping with splashes, more lively than the sea with its waves pulled back to a whispering line. Today she’s going to be...
Katherine Gallagher is dancing
DancingNothing has dulled my feel for earth,its stern gravity-pull,its cushion of dark.Neighbours in the flat belowhear my feet tappingwhile the rest of the house sleeps.When I dance in daylight,...
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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