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: Terry McKee can't sing but…
I Can’t Sing but That Doesn’t Mean I Don’t Love You I’m driving down the road, on my way to the market to get something for dinner, singing along with a love song on the radio, even though I...
Helen Pletts is remembering her grandfather
In the morning In the morning,i taste your funeral. Even the radiators' anthemappears unchanged. (Theirs the only music until the first psalm). Downstairs,someone...
Kate Pottinger is walking the woods
Deep Woodlanders I do not see the ancient menI feel their eyes upon me in the undergrowthwhere foxes bark at nightbehind the trunks of treeshalf blackened...
Sonia Jarema has one last present to unwrap
The Last Present Before he diedHe bought and wrappedThis presentIt sits in my cupboardThe snowmen have Waved many summers Away nowAnd stillI can notBring myselfTo unwrap This last...
Andrea Porter's been reading Whitman
Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation(On Reading Whitman’s I Sing the Body Electric)This TENS machine knows its job, electric impulsessent out at just the appropriate levels to sting and twitch...
Roddy Williams is in the twilight zone
November 2007it’s like the night’s invaded afternoonsthese days, pushing back the border of duskto the heartland of richard and judy.the front line of the war is approaching.they’ll soon be in...
Gwilym Williams has gone Christmas shopping – and he still has the scars
Christmas ShoppingAgain today it's a moving pizza parlour Xmas shopping spree;and I'm squeezed in the steamed-up 37 and the seasonal sneezingamid floppy wedges of undercooked white pastryand...
John Grochalski knows he's not perfect
world's perfect asshole you come in fromrunning errandsyou said that dale calledyou on the cell phonehe's wandering manhattanhe's upset and feeling overwhelmedso you invited him...
Catching up with our podcast back catalogue.
Although we've published the texts of these three poems by Helen Pletts before, we've now got audio recordings of Helen reading them aloud. So, as part of our podcast programme, here are the...
Patrick Coldstream recalls quince
QuinceThey dined on mince and slices of quince which they ate with a runcible spoon.Then hand in hand on the edge of the sand they danced to the light of the moon My window's...
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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