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.
Colin Cross says 'there's nothing on the box'
PROGRAMMES dismayedby the programmeslisted forChristmas Dayin theNew Of The WorldChristmas TV guideI boughtthe Daily Starto see if therewas anything betterlisted in theirs* Colin Cross lives in...
Patricia Mullin's getting into a festive mood
Christmas CakePreparations were well advanced. It was only October but the candied peel, plump sultanas, currants and raisins had been bought and stored in the pantry for weeks. The baking of the...
Fiona Boyle is playing hide and seek
Hide and Seek ...
Maureen Wheldon is feeling unwell
MORE ASPIRIN PLEASEHe lives between fiction and reality.this morning sitting in a tub of suds,deeper than the night before.She reclines naked,eating toast and whisky-marmalade,feeding crusts to the...
Two new poems by Mandy Pannett
THE MEDUSA EFFECTSeduced by our past we root beneath cliffs for track-ways and traces, fossilised dung.Mostly intact with ink-sac in placeThis was a squid long ago.Even soft inner parts turn into...
Casey Quinn has the perfect neighbor
my neighbor my neighboristhe perfectneighbor. she runsthe neighborhood watch. her yardis always mowed,her flowersare always in bloom. she greets everyonewith a smile. she...
Mark Reep has seen the umbrella of the future
The Umbrella of the Future Sarah finds the clicker, turns on the TV, sips her tea, waits. Cold mornings lately, the little Sony seems sluggish, slow to wake. Sarah hopes it’s not...
New prose poetry: William Doreski's gone stargazing
Stargazing in December Orion topples sidelong over my neighbor's roof. The cold envelops me in its dream of total absorption. Cell by cell I resist the stars and their crude...
Elizabeth Braken remembers the school dinners
REUNION Those old school dinners,the greasy mince, the pitchers of weak teahave been transmuted into beef,red wine tonight.The lives that run betweenare beads strung out along a chain of...
New podcast by Helen Pletts
Here's the first of our new podcast series. The poem is by regular IS&T contributor Helen Pletts and was recorded in the Czech Republic, where she now lives. So, well done Helen for not only...
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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