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.
Colin Campbell Robinson
from The Doors - the ghost variations Part 3 this is the end, my friend jim morrison 11. Here are double brown church doors with iron bolts and studs. Keeping out the...
Gregg Dotoli
Gone i want a spaghetti plot of your thoughts i need a spaghetti plot of your thoughts I must see where I cooled in your brain and never forget that elevator drop feel heart...
Stephen Daniels
cheap this love was battered eventually it started naked with its scales shining and its eyes vacant now they are covered coated and ready a flick of batter to...
Dan Bowan
Sartre in the park. It is October and yet I left home without a jacket This warmth is nauseating The pale orange horizon brings memory of sickly sweet Summers Come and gone...
Gareth Writer-Davies
A Horse Galloping Through Brecon Museum before the capture of silver upon glass it was a lucky guess by the artist to paint the correct gait of a horse the...
Diarmuid Fitzgerald
* upturned boat wind whipped sand wipes it clean * from the train window concrete, more concrete … finally cherry blossoms * windy day — cleaning the mountain of litter ripple in the ferns *...
R. E Hengsterman
Him I’ve been many things over the course of my life, some good, and some bad. I’ve said things I shouldn’t have said. Told lies I shouldn’t have told and pretended to be someone I...
Nathanael O’Reilly
Return Flight Tired sunburned passengers flying home from vacations puzzle over Sudoku and crosswords doze against strangers' shoulders read thrillers and airline...
Julie Irigaray
Drunken Roses The curtains' psychedelic pattern is the only touch of sunshine in this flat. Beyond them, two artificial moons radiate tumours in the cemented garden and the city's...
Miranda Lynn Barnes
Hollow Years What carves away the insides? Here, inside the apple tree, each trunk is rotted out, hollowed through. The emptiness kept growing when we weren’t looking. Now everything hangs...
Poetry Picks
Our favourite poems and ‘best of’ chosen from each month between 2007 and 2019
And the ‘Pick of the Month’ for June 2015 is Jane Burn
We are very pleased to announce that Jane Burn's Whatever shall I do with this time to myself? is the voters’ choice for the IS&T Pick of the Month for June. Jane has asked that her prize be donated to Shelter. Whatever shall I do with this time to...
David Calcutt
Further extracts from The Old Man in the House of Bone There’s someone else in the house of bone, someone moving in between the silences, slipping through and around them, stepping over them on tiptoe, trying not to wake them,...
And the ‘Pick of the Month’ for May 2015 is Rushaa Louise Hamid
Huge congratulations to Rushaa Louise Hamid whose Another Canaan emerged as the voters' choice for the first IS&T Pick of the Month. Rushaa wins a National Book Tokens £10 gift card and, as the first 'Pick', a place on a Lunar Poetry workshop at L'klectik gallery,...
Marion McCready
The Un-Mother The clouds of a new dawn whisper around me – or are they nurses? The blue firmament is a light-rattled ceiling; the lighthouse of the doctor shines above me. My body is a reef – it is growing from me. I have octopus arms and legs; this bed cannot...
Matt West
At Morrison’s He tells me this is how it feels to come back from the dead; a jolt, like tripping over the raised corner of a paving slab, tasting dirt and grit and finding how strong gravity is. I tell Jim I need specifics I need specifics....
Julia Stothard
Galleries Walking into the intense heat of a gallery, over-coated and dripping, expecting canvass to speak without the commotion of words I will either be stunned or unimpressed but invariably silent, appraising shattered faces, elephant dung or...
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.
Fiona Sinclair reviews Carole Bromley's 'Skylight'
Carole Bromley Skylight, Smith/Doorstop 2009, £5 ISBN 978-1-906613-08-2 Carole Bromley strikes me as a...
Helen Ivory reviews Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan: Every Salt AdvanceRed Squirrel Press, 2009 (ISBN: 978-1-906700-00-3) £4.00In Andrew McMillan’s own...
Fiona Sinclair reviews Anna Woodford's Party Piece
Anna Woodford: Party Piece The Poetry Business 2009I think the one line that best sums up Anna Woodford’s intentions...
Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
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