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.
Tim Love
Party He slips into the house, puts his pack of beer on the kitchen table, takes a can and walks from room to room, staying a while in the back room. The IKEA furniture's...
J. Bradley
The Ribcage Is Asked By Its Latest Lover How It Gets Around You try your best to remain upright when in a new bedroom, but it slows you down. Your latest lover gives you permission to...
Richard James
The Chain Game You play the chain game! But will it protect you against rust? The indicators on the side indicate your time is crunching into a vile twist, so no. Little else is going...
Diane Mulholland
Self Portrait With Spiders I stand still and let the spiders spin their webs in all directions. Each curve and angle of my body is an anchor point. Each scar, each detail of my history...
Sally Festing
Their Prints Moths, ghosts, this house is full of them, we live with waves of silence but their life roars enormous through our rooms – hung on walls, stuffed in bookcases, leaking...
Jim Bennett
the bluebottle died immediately on impact the crunch against the window unmistakable my father stood newspaper in hand the single wrist flick had broken the fly trajectory sent...
Sarah Cave
Moomin’s Dream Moomin bit his tongue a forget-me-not token of excess flourished his last night-terror a dark hallway an echo follows 13 steps an amber glow the sign of 13 Moomin’s ball and...
William Stephenson
The Chocolate Parliament In summer the facade drips sweet brown sweat. Tourists like to nibble the carvings, especially the gargoyles speckled with raisins and almonds. It’s...
Milton P. Ehrlich
I Never Had it So Good Floating upside down in my private ocean in a translucent body bag all my needs were met. Though my knees were crammed against my belly, I enjoyed...
Jonathan Taylor
Daedalus After Knossos The maze is now a seashell’s spiral threaded by an ant, a miniature Ariadne searching for honey, as if sun-touching ambitions are drowned in an ocean and grief...
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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