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.
New poetry by Elaine Speakman
My favorite place that I have never been...I've never been to South Africa,But I know how the sunset arcs To meet the savana grasses In the same hues of rust and gold. I know how the sky is...
The Dancer by Maureen Weldon
THE DANCERI am tired,my brain hangs loose,locked in my rucksack.This is the hour for the owl to fly,to hoot to winking moonthrough clouds of mist.This is night,the quiet time ..Because I am on my...
Juliet England's honing her building skills
Building SkillsThe man blinked, adrift On the classroom’s sea of papers and pens (The tools of our trade.) There were twelve of us, faces eagerTo learn how to teach those for whom words danced on...
New poem by Geoff Stevens
A WOMAN FOR ALL SEASONS (EXCEPT ONE)Visiting the past you gave birth to Christhad John the Baptist's head brought to yousubmitted Samson's hair to a Number One cutbared your breasts in...
Leisure – Nature – Morning by Richard Wink
Leisure It was pleasant to be out of work by choiceno longer a slave one giant leap out the corporate doorthing is time soon takes holdand strangles your willthe television becomes your friend who...
Mark Leech goes base jumping and has the dereliction blues
The Base Jumper Prevaricates Glistening pods of life moving on roads like piss riddling sunrise: I dare earth's concrete palm to swat me, falling. I will surge up, hurling fat slugs of down back...
Two prose poems by Mike Estabrook
Hot Air BalloonsFall has begun, crisp out there and even though it is warm as a robin’s nest it feels like the beginning of fall that impending feeling hanging poised in the air like a fleet of hot...
Burma – a comment by Chris Major
Monk's Footwear – Bloody Burma Why ? Why...
The 'We' lies by P. A. Levy
The ‘We’ LiesAfter reading Simone Weilyou put on a pair of sunglassesand stated emphaticallythat every sentencebeginning with ‘we’ is a lie.We are good together.I asked about the sunglasses;it was...
Souls that Passed in Spite by Clare Phillips-Barton
• Clare Phillips-Barton is amongst other things a mother of two, living, writing and bumping into unusual types in the Northamptonshire countryside.
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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