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.
Klara Feenstra
I have a friend who’s dying and it’s all he ever talks about and stepping out into the ant colony trying not to be an ant rubbing the insides and resting gravity on the palm to...
Aidan Fadden
After A strange kind of derailed calm holds sway after the worst weekend when we got the thumbs down after raising hopes of a child. After your call, crying into the mobile,...
Christina Lloyd
Esperanza the Relief Sculptress Shearing the copper sheet to match the length and width of the tracing paper, she starts to rouse Lapu-Lapu’s warriors to slay Magellan. Wielding...
Margarita Serafimova
The cup that I drink from before the court, if my hand lets it go, will break on the floor, glass against stone will ring, liquid will spill and flow. It will become quiet. The...
Oliver Comins
Morning Chorus The path starts beside a village green, travels up a narrow valley reaching into the foothills. A steep walk follows, through trees above that brooding,...
Sharon Phillips
My mum’s dream job There I am in the bus and I see that sun flashes off its windows so light jives along the street I wonder if people squint as the light flicks past their eyes...
Word & Image by Helen Pletts and Romit Berger
Reconnaître I want to remember the way back. It seems Orion has the compass' foot, Swinging his other leg out into the dark With the confidence of a man who walks on stars. I...
G David Schwartz
Dripping In The Snow Rolling down the hill The only way to go And I pelt out this song. Oh no, no no, no G David Schwartz is the former President of Seed...
Gary Jude
The Apocalypse Wasn’t How I’d Imagined Or at all like in the movies I’d seen. Shopping malls weren't swarmed by hordes. Cities didn't burn down on the horizon. Only a few shots were...
Tom Wiggins
Helen Ivory has an Epiphany at Breakfast Spoon in hand — she stops mid-sit. That’s it, she thinks. That’s it! She chuckles to herself, then sits down, and smiles into her Coco Pops as...
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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