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.
David Coldwell
Homecoming You lift our new daughter from the car as I place the bags down and shout for the boys. Our neighbour is already upon you, leaving her garden to fend for itself in the excitement....
Darren Ryding
Master Chef? Press in and twist to ignite gas Whoosh as orange flame fingers retract into acute fire a conflagration of blue-white. Retrieve your non-stick frying pan pour on a...
David Riley
Bit Parts I want to ask you, do you think we’re in a film? If we get our lines wrong will someone step out from the Golden Mile, put us back on track - though they haven’t done...
Roddy Williams
Fish in the hospital the fish man told me secrets of life and catfish we watched malawis in a brief feeding battle while the catfish lazed nonchalant fin frond easing like...
John Grey
Heirlooms When she died, her possessions lived the more, memories glistening in crystal, served on bone china, ticking in the works of a souvenir wall-clock. Even the...
Richard King Perkins II
On Harrow Gate Drive We’re convinced we have everything— complementary patterns of color entwined with sleep, the possibility to rise above earth, captivations to entertain in...
Maxine Rose Munro
A Simple Dish Bones of the sea pour out a salt shaker into the pot. Delicate, desiccated hedge from far, far away adds flavour and aroma. Dried fungi float, neither plant nor...
Joyce Walker
Second Screening I gaze at my imperfect breasts, Scarred by two other operations And wonder what I’ll feel If it is third time unlucky. It’s odd that losing one Would terrify...
Colin Crewdson
Meeting the family, 1937 These are sunny days. They sit arranged around the teacups, teapot centre, cakes to eat in this glade of leaves and glitter; she wants her fairy-friends...
Dan MacIsaac
Catbird Dumtella carolinensis Gray pretender samples beats from spring peepers and circus jays. Coy poacher salts its song with crow ratchets and blackbird...
Poetry Picks
Our favourite poems and ‘best of’ chosen from each month between 2007 and 2019
Colin Campbell Robinson
Noir The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here. Italo Calvino. ‘Invisible Cities’. The proof is in the text. He manipulates keys. They hold plastic close, electronic skipping....
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 Alan Brownjohn
Ludbrooke: An Introduction by Alan BrownjohnThe Poetry Trust, 2009 www.thepoetrytrust.org ISBN 978-0-9550910-2-0,...
Review: You Are Here poetry show, Norwich
You Are Here, a poetry show: Colette Bryce, Daljit Nagra and Jo Shapcott 20 January 2010, Norwich Arts Centre ...
Chapbooks: Grant Savage’s "Finding a Breeze" reviewed
Finding a BreezeAs with any field of endeavor, there are high flyers, egotists and non-assuming types that simply do...
Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
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