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.
New poetry by India Rose Badiner
The Moment When it Could Have BeenShe was quiet for many hours by the windowAs if time was only a constructed and conjured up illusion of the human mindStanding parallel to her dark, strange and...
New flash fiction by Bill West
Imagine the Glass is Green Outside, his car still burned. Thick smoke wrapped around the bay window as if he were trying to climb back inside. She popped another sleeper, washed down with...
Two new poems by Dayseye – updated
Mystery solved regarding this piece we originally posted last Thursday... Today's contributor is a bit (OK a lot) of a mystery – we have just two clues: the pen-name Dayseye and an @tesco email...
Jonathan Pinnock would like to complain
It's autumn, the season of mists, mellow fruitfulness and disputes with energy companies over the size of the bills they send us. As here – at Ink Sweat Towers – we are currently engaged in a...
New writing by John Irvine
Fish FingersA small candle on the table washes her blue eyes violetas she twirls the long stemmed yellow rosethat matches her dress.I hand-feed her tidbitsfrom the shared bouillabaissefish crab...
New writing by Alison Woodhouse
What can I give you?“Real coffee? Tea? Peppermint, camomile, earl grey? Food perhaps. Hot soup? Ham sandwiches?" Yes, Yes, please. Everything. And ten marlboro light. Slip them into my bag and I...
Two new poems by Fiona Sinclair
Family PortraitThis old carrier contains the remainsof a jumbled family jigsaw whose puzzlelies in the tell tale outline of vanished lives.A few of you went underground, lay in wait,until distracted...
Two new poems by Carol Lynn Grellas
I think we've all been here with the first of these two pieces ...EdRegarding Your Submission though we appreciate the effortyou took, we’re very sorry for the postage stamps you’ve wasted in...
Some verbal postcards from Helen Pletts
Helen Pletts now lives in Prague, in the Czech Republic, and has spent the summer battling with the twin evils of root-canal dentistry and builders. She's now about to take over teaching on a...
Another Endless January – new poetry, new poet
In case you think we've lost the plot, this piece does have an autumnal timeliness...Another Endless January Another endless January, wastedwith drinking bingesand the rattled hingesof doors...
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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