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.
Alan Price is reading up on old movies…
COLOUR MY MOVIE MISS NIAH FROM MARSSettings, dialogue, characterisation and special effects are of a low order; but even their modest unreality has its charm. There is really no fault in this film...
Fiona Donaghey has a red suitcase and some stolen things
Stolen ThingsWaiting in a wooden forestwhere rain tips you here and there,you read the trees like you might read booksand wonder: What right have text booksto worry me?I hold my hands and kiss...
Roberta Swetlow's writing an octologue
Today we have a poem by Roberta Swetlow in a relatively new and novel form – an octologue. This was invented by Pat Gomes and consists of eight line stazas, with syllables arranged: 3,5,3,3,5,3,3,3...
Helen Pletts says there will come a time
And there will come a time And there will come a timewhen the sheets will ride up into one,you and he, meeting again,melting like rain, taking a hand in a hand and putting steps in a...
G W Colkitto is awake at 4:00 in the morning
IT IS FOUR IN THE MORNINGIt is four in the morning againI am awakeThe darkness is closingI had been dozingNow it is four in the morning again.I half remember dreamsWhere you were aliveI want to...
Mike Estabrook's been on a blind date
Blind Date"I've never been on a blind date," I state,feeling a mixture of pride and sorrow."I haven't either," my wife responds immediately,looking away from the TV screen.I look at her to...
Anne Brooke say's here come the sun…
Sun-danceRise whenit’s still darkand waitfor the sunto waltza shining pathfrom the east,the faint starsa silent orchestra,and the disappearing moonits hand partneron a sky-blue floor.* Anne Brooke...
Jon Tait's in Corsica
Rotor BladesI’m rolling a cigarette as I walk up from the docks in Ajaccio Corsica past the market selling fish and meat & the smart port terminus thinking this is the place where Napoleon was...
John Grey faces a writer's dilemma
ANOTHER WRITER’S DILEMMA In the threshing, thrashing of the flesh,she says that if I’m writing poetry.it means I’m not paying attention. There’s no place in that universe of...
Kathryn Mitchell is heading off to the Bowery Poetry Club
For One Night OnlyThat one OctoberWe ran around like every night was HalloweenToday you can be ex-junkie in oversized shadesTomorrow I’ll be hungover fuck up in last night’s clothesPlatinum blonde...
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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