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.
Three pieces by Matthew Howard
LittleI saw the last-gaspedfeather-weighted ‘O’written by a showerof little quillscooling at the tips.The tin-god voice on the radio...
Three pieces by Julian Stannard
Bob Dylan Plays Down in the Port(Genoa 1992)We were almost at the end of the worldon the uppermost floorin earshot of the world’s ghostliest ships.The baby was asleep in his cot.Darling, your...
Two poems by Katrina Naomi
My FathersOne wore a St Christopher, the other a watch.One liked cricket, the other football.One drove a Lotus, the other a Morris.One was a nurse, the other sold turf.One read Orwell, the other The...
All in black by John Irvine
All in blackSlender as a reedall in blackdark bobbed hairgreen eyesred lipsperches sidesaddleon the crossbarof my bicycleshe tinkles a laughas my old legs crankthe pedals“I love you,”I whisper...
Three poems by David LaBounty
Another Poem About More of the Samethe words riseabove the coffeesmells and softmusic like anantiseptic cloudand the wordsrise from a collectionof women dressedin black sweaters blackpants black...
Two poems about silence by Tim Bedford
Shroedinger's CatThe radio instructed meI should hold a minutes silencefor something thatmight have happened.Something that could have been.No certainty, more allegationsthan bones, but still...
Dates & Fossils by Frank Praeger
Of Dates and Fossils, Dinners and Meadows Avuncular guards at every door, long-winded speeches highlighting large-breasted, small-waisted heroines - paper cutouts for each...
New prose poem by William Doreski
Sentimental Education In a coffee shop in Amherst, we let the breath of students envelope us. Their faddish clothes threaten like documents held by a blackmailer, their faces raw and...
Number 184 by Duane Locke
YANG CHU’S POEMS 184I cannot trust her,I cannotDistrust her.Trust and distrustAre words,Mere empty words,Trust and distrustDoes not applyTo what exists between us.Does not fit,Does not have...
Two poems by Mira Coleman
RecessThat clamouring hourin the yard where the standpiperose out of cementis glued in a cavitybehind my eyeseven now.When, between the cow pastureon the east sideand the linked fence to 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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