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.
Matthew Friday is thinking about snow
We've had the first snowfalls of the winter in England today, so here is an appropriate poem by Matthew Friday...Snow for Abbie Abbie fizzed with excitement whenI told her there could be...
Casey Quinn has nothing but promises
promises, promises i promisenothingis going to changeunless of course,something happensout of my control... or if something bettercomes along... or if i have agut feeling tellingme...
Colin Cross says its a dead cert never is forever
JOHN Johnwho was a manwho would beton anythingand had astaunch hatredof anything Germanas his fatherwas a victimof world war twodied just daysbeforeEngland beat Germany5 – 1 at...
Two short cuts by Abbie Clark
Short vinegarMy vinegar is balsamicMy neighbour is IslamicIt’s a mixed leaf worldI’m an eclectically cultural girl~ ~ ~ ~ ~Time to investTinged green by the cheap imitation jewellery she understood...
Pat Jourdan's listening to the fisherman's wife
The Fisherman's Wife SpeaksThere's not a silver dish leftin all this town.The fish have vanished now,all boats sliding into scrap.We see closed shipyards, clanking empty chainson...
Two works by Nigel Pickard
We've a choice of styles for you today – verse poetry and a prose poem – enjoy...YOU’VE PROBABLY SAIDsomething funny:that’s your usual way.She’s thrown her head backand laughed. You like...
New prose by Bobby Parker
Spinner’s End(fragments of disappointment, alienation, babbling and resolve)There were no cakes in the tin, but it was a very pretty tin decorated with rainbows melting into the electric image of...
Two poems by Karen Kelsay
I Believe Mrs. Allen, why did you tell ussecond-graders that our guardianangels wouldn’t follow us intoa liquor store? I spent hours wondering how to get M&M’sfrom the corner market,...
Gwilym Williams considers the finest view in England
Pendle Hill ‘…finest view in all of England’ – Queen Mary from Downham Church Before the Church the Queen proclaimed:‘the finest view in all of...
Sarah Ann Watts is down among the books
One more time ‘This is the place where they house the dead books. This is where we store the tales that no one reads any more. It’s like a graveyard though paper is slower to decay than flesh....
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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