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.
Penelope Shuttle talks of light's journey
LightLight likes to travel at his own speed,making up stories about kingdoms and good deeds,unfolding - eh voila! -a tiny vulnerable brand-new street café -then resting for a while on any...
Bobby Parker is eating alphabet soup
Alphabet Soup a)Posing in the mirror with a knife. Stealing from my mother’s purse. Stealing my dad’s cigarettes. My psychologist makes me drawpictures of screaming people. I don’t feel...
Ivor Murrell hears songs of light and darkness
Songs of Light and DarkHuman Voices concert at Halesworth, December 13th 2009It was started as a murmura memory rising from the cave dark.Welele, Welele, Welelethe ululation progressed, so did the...
Mark McDonnell considers the nature of pain
Electric BatonIn the pause beneath a bare light bulb which has been sun and moon for weeks (with rice cooking not a mile away children coming in from school)the soldier’s eyes slide from the...
John Grey is a world traveler
I'M A WORLD TRAVELER ...
Fiona Sinclair says please don't bother the bride
Please don’t bother the bride She makes the ideal extra in a wedding video with herextravagant white picture hat and vintage tea dress. Chooses to sit near the wall on one of the red...
Liz Bassett remembers the Strada Jezer
Stradă Jezer In a bed that you fold downand once shared with your sister, we breathe mothballs caught on the thin soundsof swimming pool cries and laughteradrift from the benches...
Harry Owen considers the moments of our living
TendingMess of thin cobwebs in the top corner of the bathroom window, one yellow spider a long-legged sac patrolling the bounds;rain that tends down with this soft hiss, a veil,its silken signature...
Andy Spragg has an encounter with the editor
The Editor Maxwell used to eat by swallowing greatbunching fistfuls of food,gargling thick spills of cooling gravy. Throat cluttered with cigar smoke –he would cough,putting an abrupt end...
Gale Acuff remembers first grade
SevenIf I lean back in my first-grade deskand expose my throat to the drop-ceilingand fluorescent lights then Becky McFarlandwill be along to tickle me as shemoves up and down the rows in 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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