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.
Witt Wittmann has a peace offering
Peace Offeringtalons ripthe bleating heartsparkle berries driptheir winegrasp and grabfive inches deepvisible by Julyflutter wingsa pink profusionbrown hangson the vinethreads of silver...
Jo Mortimer is gone
Gone I am going to Death on a tiger. My journey is not hard; we talk all the way. There are scratches on us but we look forward; the scratches don’t hurt. An eyelash of mine falls on the tiger’s...
Kara-Sue deserves something better – says Chelsey Flood
Kara-Sue, You Deserve Better Things We bonded over broken bones,displayed our woundsat check out number seven.Her namebadge said Kara-Sueand I thought it unfaironly she had one,but I didn't say...
John Grey is in a strange town
IN A STRANGE...
Frances Gapper has a different perspective on buddleia
BUDDLEIAIt’s hot and the buddleia’s out,flourishing in waste ground,along the railway embankments. Mauve and that rarer dark purple.It waves in the wind like penises, if penises were made of tiny...
Three shortcuts
We've got three short pieces for your today – by Matt Howard, Janet Thorning and a prose poem by IS&T editor Charles Christian...Totem Dreaming of magpies all night, I heard one;he...
New poetry by Sara Crowley
Flames They say ‘She’s out of control.’‘Someone should do something.’They phone social services, who send nice women with too quiet voices to soothe and help. They go away again,...
Julia Bohanna is carrying out some restoration
RENOVATION Blisters of her green paint ruptured wetunder my nail like fatbladders of seaweed.The God of all Mildew had blownbird's egg speckles and flown.Whoever dressed her, has left her...
Frances Gapper engages in some light conversation
LIGHT CONVERSATIONFiona over the road asked mewould I please stop shining a light (my reading lamp) through her bedroom window. She said, it's like a searchlightand these new lamp-posts are the...
Vanessa Gebbie is watching the reeds
REEDThere are babies growing in the reed beds again. They grow in cocoons like the nests of harvest mice, a little looser in the weave. The cocoons have been swelling since the spring; the...
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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