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.
Leigh Pierce has a date
Date NightNo snow no rain no wayNowhereJust painBound by agony, to the couch of eternityFrom humble beginnings come humiliating endsA horrifying conclusion that...
Bobby Parker has an unfinished manuscript
unfinished manuscripts (neglecting her needs) I got a bunch of hahahas in my underwear drawernext to a copy of Poetry For Fools and a half-smoked joint... I take them out and rattle them in the...
Rob Plath's found a hole in the universe
the hole in the universetoday i read in the newspaperthat scientists have discovered 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness out in space & how they are puzzledby the whole thingwhile i sit with a...
New short fiction by Janet Yung
Dining Out“Do you want me to call an ambulance?” The chubby manager of the all you can eat restaurant is seated on the floor next to Peter, the elderly patron, who’s barely had time to settle...
Three short poems by Colin Cross
SOBER OR MISSED the first two peopleI spoke to in the pubtonightwere so drunkthat when they spokethey spat all over me the third personwas either soberor missed ~ ~ ~ ~...
Flash fiction by Tola Ositelu
This was the sixth Doctor’s surgery he was visiting that week. Harold had long ago resigned himself to the fact he had a problem. That he savoured the pleasure of sitting around,...
Feeling guilty?
Guilt just before sleep –picture it –stabbing something to black. a needle –pressed between –tongue and palate.• Marguerite O'Callaghan is a 25 year-old writer who recently moved to...
Football's coming home
With the Euro 2008 football (or soccer for our American readers) about to get underway, what better than a football poem by Gwilym Williams...Just over the bar? On the box and the bottletheir...
Introducing Miss Thailand
Miss ThailandHe’s in love with anotherwho’s hot and spicyand bears ripe mangofor him to tasteHer water embraces his tanned bodyher palms give him shadewhen he laps her coconut milkIn her he’s got...
Another new prose poem by William Doreski
Dumping my Dead Uncle's Clothes As I dump my dead uncle's clothes in the Goodwill...
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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