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.
Flash fiction on a Friday by Melanie Browne
Two Flappers in ParisLawrence scrutinized her bookshelf. He placed his thumb over the spine of each book and sipped his Pinot Noir while the Eagles New kid in Town played on the stereo. His thumb...
Alan Girling remembers the solstice
Solstice ‘09 Upon leaving the Chinese gardenwhere a hundred paper lanternsin magical trainsof flickering lightfloated lazily acrossthe dark waters,you stopped to lookup and count the stars,...
Mike Estabrook discovers she's always hated these evenings
She’s hated these evenings all along Sometimes men are dim,don’t see the closest thinghappening around them. Like that time Ron’s wife cheated on himwith his best friendand he didn’t know...
Mark Myers says let them roll
LET THEM ROLL DOWN IN NUMBERS Let them roll down in numbersLet them fall down from the skyLet them inhabit sad islandsthat man made in Dubai Let them roll down in numbersLet them plough...
New prose: Ruth Solomon is in the reading room
Reading RoomAn orange boiled sweet taken from it's cellophane wrapper and dropped. I look at the man, at the sweet, back at the man. He is a large man with limited motion. "Don't worry...
Rachel Fox knows no sense unsung
No sense unsungReach out and touchThe sound of silenceSome kind of wonderfulSo hard to findIf you're alone nowFeel for the look of loveAll the songs know itLove can be blindBeware a touch too...
Peter Weber knows a house of mis-dysfunction
House of mis-dysfunctionThere was never enough love in this houselong stretches of silencebut I think I've figured it outThe sun only shines half of the timeand then the moon, a fraction of...
New prose: Carmen Schreffler says breathe
Breathe Breathe. Breathe in, breathe out.Those were the only thoughts that could run through her head as her heart felt as if it were being crushed within her. Damn it, when would she learn?...
Mandy Pannett has some snaps to share with us
SNAPS• I’m at Uni in Wales. Joan puts rollers in her hair and lies on the rug in front of the one bar fire to dry it. It takes forever and there’s a scorching smell. ...
Tanner says "and all this for just £5.45 an hour!"
For £5.45 An Hour Just a fucking cockroach of a womanwaving a pack of mince at me wailing ‘Get us another one,this one’s outer date!’ so I go the other end of the shop,get one and take it to her,she...
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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