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.
Ian Glass
Shelter It starts with a whisper, closing from the West ripples across stooped hills, grows grumbling to a moan. Light dips behind low clouds; wind presses clothes...
Stuart Buck
On the Surface of the Moon my friend tells me he cannot see the lights on the surface of the moon because there is a patch of the bad thing in his heart so I tell him to look...
Adam Sear
The Crowman A thick haze of smoke still lay across the fields. From just a few yards away, the scavengers were all but invisible as they performed their grim, yet profitable...
Karen Hodgson Pryce
Blind Eyelids still sewn, wild kitten rabbit dip-hopped across our path: where mum, what eat, who there. In the field, crow blew at a hankied beak, crossed its...
Sascha Aurora Akhtar
I want 2 b naked on your regal mountain I want 2 absorb your hand with mine from fingertip 2 palm, 2 finger tip Sascha Aurora Akhtar, is a trans-race,...
Jennie Ensor
Thirteen Ways Of Looking At Orange After Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens I With longing And sharp nails I consider the orange. II Five oranges...
Matt Bayliss
chopped liver & love notes. he stood inside the garage for most of September. the mooring ropes had been cut loose and it was all being scraped out of him like...
Craig Dobson
The Art of Tipping The Eastern European concierge can’t hide his billionaire-stare’s disappointment as the revolving doors deliver me: small change at the ready should my...
Daryl Muranaka
Politics and Other Distractions wildflowers in the yard waiting to be mowed in the forest no tree grows too fast or too high the earth moves on the floor the baby...
Kitty Coles
When I Heard The Trees Speak I turned to see your face and it was still. So, to be certain, I took your hand and whispered, ‘Do you hear that?’ Blankly, you answered,...
Poetry Picks
Our favourite poems and ‘best of’ chosen from each month between 2007 and 2019
Bethany W Pope
Midnight Illness Home is only ever found in glimpses, the night-fragrance of a lover’s shoulder, the warm throb of the pulse beneath the skin of the throat, the green scent of trees captured in the pages of the right kind of book. You feel ‘home’ in a...
Jody Porter
Heat In these heat days when the sun displays a fiery godhead and ordains the liquefaction of Tarmac and the deadest of nights bring a crackle of crickets and all the bedrooms burn in airless struggle to turn the pillow then and face its...
Paul Burns
bringing it home outside the pub the trees shone gold then ruby as the sun tried to leave. I held it up for long moments, clutching at its rays and its power to melt cars, helping them morph into the shapes of distant hills, or clouds looking out at the...
For Halloween, something suitably gruesome from Tim Turnbull . . .
A Lucky Charm I was a nurse for nearly fifteen years – worked in A&E for three – and I've seen some things – nasty accidents, dying people, and such like – but this really shook me up. It was a horrible thing to witness, certainly, what I saw that...
Abigail Beene
Untitled And I think that you think you understand a lot of things Things you just don't. Getting caught between the rhythm and home. But you see I'm only telling you this because I used to think I understood a lot and I just didn't I was...
And the ‘Pick of the Month’ for September 2015 is Antony Owen’s ‘Pearl Harbour’
We are very pleased to be able to announce that the IS&T ‘Pick of the Month’ for September is Pearl Harbour by Antony Owen. Antony was inspired by Hada Sensei who was 8 years old when the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima. She lost both of her sisters and could not...
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.
Ken Head reviews ‘Waiting for the Sky to Fall’ by Dan Wyke
Waiting for the Sky to Fall by Dan Wyke, Waterloo Press ISBN: 978-1-906742-18-8 Paperback: £10.00 87ppAlthough...
Helen Ivory reports on the Edinburgh Festival
Edinburgh Festival 21st – 26th AugustUntil last week, I was pretty much the only person I know who hadn’t been to the...
Ken Head reviews 'Non Dog' by Harry Owen
Non Dog Harry Owen The Poets’ Printery (South Africa) ISBN: 0-620-46472-0 Paperback: unpriced...
Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
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