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.
Kayode Isaac is looking at gold and a mirror
Gold and MirrorWhoever called one gold, the other mirrorMust be a she, yes, One who had sagacity and audacityTo have played a game with past nameI think she is a she, a feminist sheBut how bold is...
G W Colkitto feels like bouncing
BOUNCINGSometimes you do not feelLike bouncingLand with a splat and lieCompressedAirless, flat, no rebound.On half days you plop backEnough to rollSlowly depart the pointOf impactTo comfort of...
Peter Weber has Captain Beefheart on his mind
monkey mindLike a marble rolling down a hillI found the place I’ve settled inI’m here, but easily dislodgedby vibrationthe temporary home I seewalls at times folding inas good a place as anybut not...
Two short poems by Kathryn Mitchell – she's angry and blonde
Five YearsIt’s been five years. Your feet still dangle In the backyard of my mind.I tied a noose around my regrets And hanged them beside you that day. Now broken promises Come creeping under...
Colin Cross wonders who they are talking to
MOBILES walking through the subwaynear my flatI passed two Indian guyscoming in the opposite direction they were walking side by sideboth talking on mobile phonesboth in their own...
Time for another of our short cuts
Time for another of our short cuts collections, of short poems by 3 different authors...Moonflawedhe waitsfor the dice to tumble,for the scales to falllike rainon an autumn nightmoon-stricken.He’s...
New podcast by Bev Ellis
In the words of Mandy – that's Brian's mother in the Monty Python movie The Life of Brian – I have been a naughty, naughty boy for not keeping up with our podcasts. Today we have two poems...
Helen Pletts is taking the coats tonight
I’m taking the coats tonight I’m taking the coats tonight - in a world of fingers that forget to tip, it is my blue jumper trail-threadwhich touches your palmthis eveningbefore the...
Alexander Allison knows a dancer
i know a dancerand she walks with the grace of a dreama billowing message of the worlds goodnessand it fills you from all angles and lifts you to say‘Hush, it’s okay’and that’s all you wanted to...
Mike Estabrook's caught between heaven and earth
Heaven and Earth It has been a long, hot, humid summer and my wife and I are exhausted and a little bored so we stop by the video store, take out Oliver Stone’s Heaven and Earth – Vietnam...
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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