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.
Abigail Zammit's Time Machine
Time MachineI know / sometimes, that space is touching mebecause I have seen the crack in the universethrough which the galaxies stream. (Jo Shapcott - ‘I’m contemplated by a portrait of the...
Rula Jones has a diary of a product
Diary of a ProductThey gave me a name And I felt myself become the name. Proud of my logo, I Was eager to leave the production line,Impatiently waiting my turn in acquisition. The line workers...
Two new poems from Heidi Williamson
WoodcutterIn a school room, the woodcutterhad come for the children. Every wolf that he could muster,the bears, the dwarves, the witchesherded them into the darkened forest. Once there, they tried...
Rebecca Fulleylove is watching Tom & Jerry
SofaThey sat on the left sideof the sofa. They didn’t siton that side normally.They watched Tom and Jerry,their hands resting nextto each other. His finger tip brushed her wrist. Their hearts...
Myra Schneider looks into the heart of the rose
This Rose after ‘The Rose’ Mae Holsgrove is a revelation. Peer through the compressions and the releases in its many layers to segments that are pink and purple – you will make out a snake coiling...
Helen Pletts has Gorky's liver
My liver is sick with purple... Arshile Gorky In between the red – there are geraniums,Still there are geraniums – they feather red fromThe window boxes under your white elbows up above my...
Joanna Boulter is also dreaming of invisible stars
Le Cheval Bleuwhose sky was once the colour of walls, of iron bars,leapt up over the high gateto explore the airthe amaze of up there so far...
Ray Morgan can smell baked potatoes
Twice Baked PotatoesI come home andyou are makingtwice-baked potatoes andit smellsso homely andso wholesome andyou turn round andwipeyour hands on your trousers andwe have a potato-scented kiss...
Beverly Ellis remembers Bloody Sunday
With the historic Saville Inquiry into the Bloody Sunday shootings in Northern Ireland in 1972 published earlier this week, we have a timely reflection here on those events...One Sunday Every...
Robert Scotellaro has freezer burns
Freezer BurnThe husband hunts down his biggest calamities; tiptoes upon them. A shotgun never whispers, he's quick to comment. Ties them to his car and heads back.Parts will be jerky for...
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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