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.
Matt Duggan
Firefly When the world is a firefly only lighting the way with a fat glowing head for that inch at the top of its tip, it keeps the darkness for those wasted days in queues for postage...
Maurice Devitt
At the Beach for Anne One day that summer you disappeared for hours. As though tired of Sisyphus and the task of filling a moat, you wandered off, your pink, polka-dot...
Sergio A. Ortiz
Next Best Thing Our parents were astronauts of two extremes. Every vacant lot where we used to play started boiling over, so we grew up (in word only) against the prognosis of a...
Elizabeth Rimmer
Queen of the Meadows Much I do not envy them - the cold houses, the meat-heavy banquets and bread like stone, haphazard medicine, and tolerance of fleas, mice, dogs under the...
Rebecca Gethin
Black Hill I arrived by the other path and met my last year self taking the same photos – Gribbin Head,The Lizard, the difference being the snow of blackthorn blossom, the cold...
Kate Edwards
Frequency Violet Some have misgivings about Violet. They believe she is on the spectrum; somewhere at the very end, in fact. None can account for it but we’re told she hums inaudibly in the...
Judith Taylor
The dog Sometimes in the early hours the dog's toenails click on the passage lino. That dog has been gone two decades, nearly: sometimes one of them hears him, sometimes both....
Kevin Reid
Victorian Sisters I. Hardy. Well preserved. She mothered them. They found her alone. The rose still kind on her lips, olive still ripe on her skin. It was winter. II. Her...
George Aird
The Doctor Will See You (As A Piece of Meat, Until You Start Bleeding Everywhere) Measured in syllables, the distance between the kitchen door and table is not enough to avoid the...
Andrea Bowd
Autumn October when my red-haired mother was found. Lying still, insect-thin, sleeping. Though her lips were the bluest they’d ever been. Neighbours called: offered broth. I’d...
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.
Robert Creely and Robin Robertson reviewed
In the first our book reviews postings Jo Kjaer reviews Robert Creely's last collection and our new book reviews...
Interviews
Archived interviews from 2007 to 2020.
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