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.
Helen May Williams
From Michel Onfray’s Before Silence: a year’s haiku Spring 9 Sea’s iris Wheat’s golden blond Milk-white skin. Saturday, 6th April, 4.29 p.m. In nostalgia for being, far from...
Paul Burns
today the truck ahead has one brake light that works duck taped to the tailgate of its tipper where white plastic bags blow around in the slipstream he's indicating...
Colin Honnor
Human poetry off Gower The wind is unravelling itself to the elephant seals' counterpoint their almost-chant is a slither-wash to these glistens the sands of Gower glistral the...
Csilla Toldy
Mirror I want to create images that would touch the viewer's soul to some degree. Tarkovsky My soul touched the wind the wind that blows the rye the field waves like the sea you...
Michael Bloor
Maryhill Barracks, Glasgow, May 21st 1941 Mary MacLeod was busy restocking the shelves of the shop in the NCOs’ canteen. She liked the job well enough, though the walk to work through...
Phil Powrie
The night that takes our shape afraid to abandon behind us the night that takes our shape holding our candles like flickering flags here am I a soldier here a priest each with a...
Freedom: Kathleen Jones, Sophie Herxheimer, Carole Bromley for National Poetry Day
Iris Among the Lilies ‘The October water is like glass and scarcely flows.’* Iris Murdoch, ‘October’. A clumsy plunge – this quiet river pool tasting of weed and wild fowl the green...
Freedom: Janice D. Soderling, Andrew C. Brown, Roy Moller for National Poetry Day
Left Luggage Office at the European Border So! How may I help you, dear? Your little life has gone missing? Oh my! You will need to fill in a reclamation form. Was it a) misplaced b)...
Freedom: Maggie Mackay, Bethany W Pope, Richard Biddle for National Poetry Day
What Every Rusholme Housemaid Wants Sarah, get yourself to the boating lake. They take a turn each day. Granted an afternoon’s relief from dust and grates, Cook wheeshes me out...
Freedom: Seth Crook, Penelope Shuttle, Cliff Forshaw for National Poetry Day
What Greater Map of Liberty Than One Marked Out by Things Themselves Prints on sand, made by beach party feet; by the yellow-boot soles of a fisherman, stood beside two smaller feet...
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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