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.
A new poem by Gwilym Williams
An Old Man Walks Home In the garden there grows a crippled treeheavy with crab-applesfood for wormsand wasps. In the garden pondthe frogs floatgrim facedthey blink and croak. On...
Two poems by Colin Cross
WINE INTO WATER this morningas I walked pastthe Methodist churchwhose notice boardis always telling ussuch things as"Christ is everywhere"I sawtwo scruffily dressedold men with beardsseated on...
New work by Samantha Desmond
Fucking at workLust can happen in a second or a yearBut let me tell you it always dies.It can produce the sublimeButterflies being released en masseOn your wedding dayBut remember lover, its also...
I was somewhere else – by Simon Abbott
I was somewhere elseI was somewhere else when she said life is fine.Awoken to myself by the fire and the wine.Her words startled me but they do everytimeShe has a revelation of this kind.How long...
P.A. Levy reads a Victorian novel
Victorian NovelI first saw you half way...
Two works by Peter Wilkin
The Soul's Code"In the acorn lies not only the completion of life before it is lived butthe dissatisfied frustration of unlived life" ...James HillmanMy soul is a welldeeper than the depth of...
Three poems by Geoff Stevens
BEHAVIOUR PATTERNS OBTAINED FROM PRINTED CIRCUITS Made up with Rimmelbut the wires still showyour skin transparentthe flesh like Pears Soapyou are a robot of the agefed by impulses from the...
Mark Leech sees William Blake
Burning in the Fires of Orc William Blake is stalking me. I wish it wasJohn Clare, but the city works in wheelsand puts me down in the prophet’s shadowand night descends in flaming lampshot...
Two poems by Ritwik Deo
Daisies on his pink shirtDaisies on his pink shirtThe stone crusher, buttoned up for BBCHammers rocks into stones and stones to chipsShards flyAnger and spite from the stones losing matter and mass...
Three poems by Bernard Gieske
THE SUN’S STILL THERE There’s the sunalways the sunduring the dayrain or shinesometimes itthunders and sometimes itlightnings and clouds breaking op-en burstingwhite...
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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