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.
Mike Montreuil tries to remember where he lost his head
We haven't carried any flash fiction for a while so here's a piece from regular IS&T contributor Mike Montreuil. He says this started as a invented/imaginary haibun but it got too long –...
Two translations by Gwilym Williams
Regular IS&T contributor (and Austrian resident) Gwilym Williams has just translated these two short poems by the late Christine Busta from the original German. The poems were first published...
Patrick Coldstream's gone running
RunningThose springloaded, aerodynamic NikesTouch my old heart for their simple fore-runner,The plain gymshoe, plimsoll or sandshoe, whichWe whitened then with bottled white, first cousinTo the...
Catherine Edmunds has a sad and soggy sonnet to tell
We haven't published any sonnets on IS&T for some time but this one really ticked all the boxes – in a pleasantly subversive way...A sad soggy sonnetShe wore a lampshade on her head that...
Deborah Gordon can smell a billion lilies
A Billion Lilies I dream A hundred wishesAs the day beginsTo loom. I taste 2000 kissesAs they pranceAround my room. I think A million sillies As my...
Lani thinks the Muse can be a bitch
The Muse i wish i hadthe wordsthat told the storyshowed the loveburied the hatekilled the evildoersreunited the lovers i wish i didn'thave to wrestlethe machine to givethe prefect...
Deborah Bates is under the volcano
VesuviusYour Kool-Aid complexion defies what you desire, but is perfection; the alabaster promise.The blue freckles of your hairless backstand to attention in the cold,and as I lay the black in...
Rachel Fox knows an inspirational poet
Inspirationalpoet.comWell now, hello there, weary travellerCome stop and sit a whileCome rest by meI have so much – so much to share with youI've caught the sunsetsI've snapped the seaI have...
John Irvine has a warning
The man who ate lifeknew a man once who ate lifehe was a wheat and sheep farmerhad a wife and money in the bankalmost owned his farm and everything on itloved his beer and a drop of portsang a...
Paul Handley's hit a roadblock
RoadblockCortisone reduces my bruised ego,when spiked with a scathing aside to my protégé. My eldest girl is in hireling bliss,his shirt done up with bolo affectation.The dark ages descent is...
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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