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.
The lady likes them young – by Louise Halvardson
The lady who borrows youngstersThere are no items to satisfy her requesttalking books about contemporary life don’t existShe walks down the high streetpulls youngsters from queuesinvites them for...
New prose by Mandy Pannett
PATINES She often walked along the waterfront in Venice. On a clear day she could see Belmont, high on its hill, mist-clad as usual like the fairy-tale it wasn’t. There were more stalls in the...
Two new poems by Colin Cross
TOMORROW sometimes I wake up in the morning and wonder what day it is but I always know that the next one is tomorrow~ ~ ~ ~ ~PIGS although Anneis twelve yearsyounger than mewe...
Carl Abt is writing
WritingCrunch, crunch, crunch.The time has come for letters. Two toed, Three...
New flash fiction by Mike Montreuil
MORNING RUNMary-Jane always believed that her morning run was the perfect way to start the day. Her husband, Malcolm, thought otherwise and soon began to resent those early morning intrusions...
AT gets physical
PhysicalHow?How do you manage to do this?I knew you were there –rather I was there...It was meand the joyat the first watch dad boughtat the first terelene shirt he gotat the first touch of her...
Two poems by Sergio Ortiz
Simple Things I say goodbye to simple things like trees in autumn peel their leaves. Melancholy is the sad slow death of simple things that ache. Stay for a while, beneath my noontime...
Two cinquain – or near cinquain – poems by Michael Lee Johnson
SnowflakeIn springLast snowflake fallsTemperature is risingIf it knew how long it lasts,why bother?~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Nothing to DoSummerAs the world burns,Nothing else to do, butStep into liquid cool...
Andi Kato has a houndstooth hat
Houndstooth HatI am going to wear the houndstooth hatyou gave me at the airport when I thinkof the night we went to eat Chinese foodwith my brother and I drove my ex-boyfriend's van and you were...
An Amy Winehouse poem by Kezia Green
Should Amy Winehouse ever stay in a caravan by the seaAfter looking into the pan of a Dudley Diplomat,Amy heads, barefoot,for the shore;past Rajah, centre stageat the Animalarium;his spots stagnant...
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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