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.
Sue Finch
The Seventh Car Will Be His As the raindrops collected on the glass the old man opposite strolled down his path. Kneeling on the chair she watched all movement. Next...
Rose Aiello Morales
The Lady Prophesizes Dark Days Tired and poor, our masses hid in corners made America a grate with warmth from other peoples' useless breath. The Lady lost her other words, a ruler...
Keshia Starrett
It begins with a single selfish cell I forgot to turn the tap off and the sink over- flowed. I couldn’t seem to mop it up fast enough. ‘Wasteful’ was the word my mother used,...
Caroline Hardaker
The Issue of the Day It has been discovered that what's known of the fifth fundamental force is the trace of the thing itself. The target has the intrinsic ability to evolve...
Word and Image from Michael Bartholomew-Biggs and Howard Fritz
Take Two After Howard Fritz A flock of geese migrating, startled by a minor earthquake, interrupt a couple’s tilted tête-à-tête. Her headscarf’s pink and contrasts with...
Grant Tarbard
Love Child of a Curtain Twitcher She tiptoes on the high wire antennas sprouting between the houses, I view her perilous weaving dance through the lattice of my peephole. The...
Kathy Gee
Sunset without sight My senses change as the planet turns away from light. I close my eyes. The space between my ears goes numb. My wrist bones disengage, reach out to fingers fanned like a...
Samantha Pearse
The Piano One time you bought a baby grand, perhaps imagining someone in the family developing culture, as a petri dish grows mould. I wandered into the formal room, back of the...
Lewis Buxton
Mundesley I stand on one of the groynes as if posing for an album cover behind me in the cold arcade coins drop into penny falls it is December and everyone is losing...
Ali McGrane
Seeing in Colour Canvasses rotting behind the shed An ochre sky, the sharp stink of linseed on a rag The temper of blood on white tiles A coffin glossed with slick tints of autumn...
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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