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.
Sunflower Seeds – a new vignette/prose poem by Juliet England
Sunflower Seeds Everyone in Lorca knows Jose Joaquim. He stands in the bar, happy among his laughing posse. This place, this ancient Spanish town of golden stone, where he was born and where he will...
Letting go by A.D. Winans
This is one of those poems that makes me go "Damn, I wish I could write like that" by our favourite Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans...LETTING GOYou were Harpo Marx without a harpYou were Sally...
Free to do as I want by P-T Diep
Free to do as I wantA year ago I burnt the listof all the things my parents, The Lawand The Bible forbade.Released, I inhaled fresh thoughtsand indulged in eating puddingin bed, three times before...
New concrete poetry by Chris Major
MIRROR (on...
Two new poems by Geoff Stevens
SELF-INVESTIGATIONINTRUSIVE & OTHERWISEThickening pan of beef stew hallucinationsbrain-clouded thermal mudspluttering to let methane outa bulb in bakelite holderhung from a faulty fleximmersed...
A. D. Winans is giving up
In these two poems, Beat Generation survivor A.D. Winans explains why he is giving up on certain things...GIVING UP ORGANIZATIONS The one thing I notice about my formerCOSMEP friendsIs that...
Conker Season – new prose by Kris Humphrey
Conker SeasonIt was about seven years ago, before the drifting apart had even started, and Filby and me were over at Harewood House looking for conkers. The season was pretty much over but we...
Two phone messages from Roddy Williams
phone call i did not hear the phone.therefore i did not answer it.i did not register your question as a serious one.therefore i answered it with a lie.i did hear the phonebut i...
In Question by Tish Davis
In QuestionCan you build a houseon memoriesa foundationof wishes, hopesdreams Can you patcha roof topwith apologies - Or will it rainanyway? • Tish Davis lives and works in the...
Two dreams by A. D. Winans
Dreamslast nightI had a dreamI saw God cruising theMission in a BMW convertiblewith the top pulled downPuff Daddy blaring from theBose stereo sound systemhis hair was thickfull and flowinghis shirt...
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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