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.
Nick Allen knows you know you want to
You Know You Want To Hi Babe, Thirteen’s the name, Number Thirteen, licensed to thrill. That’s right, the bad-boy integer – stick with me Honey and you’ll live life in the fast lane. I know you...
Sonia Jarema is just a karaoke queen
Karaoke Queen Blue streaks in her hairTo match her top.Face no longer dull butsparkling with the joy of singing.Kids queue up tothe lady with beautiful rippled brilliant white hair, who repeats...
Helen Pletts is riding the Prague Metro
Prague Metro The single gloveresting abovethe button-click-presspeel-paint-scrapedticket machine, where the coinsare rust-rubbed, roughly,beside the slotto make them easier to digestbefore...
Roberta Swetlow reacts to a 'modern classic' she recently read
Book ReportThe words crumble into sandbefore I can cement their meaning.I’ll never see the finished product.Whether a post-modern mansion, a tower rising past the cloudsor a penitentiary, it shall...
Jim Murdoch's gasping for air
TRUTH'S LAST GASP Breathing means nothing.Breathing means everything. Each of these statements is true.Both are always true. Not breathing means somethingbut it can mean...
Peter Weber is in an extreme place
Extreme PlacesSometimes when I'm stuck, I will crave a change in the weather, the more dramatic the better. High winds, torrential downpours, floods, tornadoes ... wait, take that back, no...
Steph Leal has a new haircut
DavisIt’s a new haircut, I say, but you still don’t notice.You laughed when the fringe fell into my eyes.Aren’t you supposedto be able to see?You brushed itback behind my ears, cupped myface and...
Catherine Edmunds has been taking photographs
purplehe pouredblue listerine into a bottleand turned it purplewith a word.she drank.he watchedas scarlet lips turned puce and cracked in pain.that’s good, very goodhe saidas he took her photo...
A double act of misunderstood love
This is a double act, starting with a short prose poem Angel by IS&T editor Charles Christian and followed by Unravelling, a response written by East Anglian poet Beverly Ellis. There is also a...
Deborah Gordon is listening to silence on Blueberry Hill
Silence How thanklessly the daybreak stands with handsThat summon the sun and the earth is stilled. How tirelessly the evening crawls on bended kneesTo call, and to bring us to silence.~...
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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