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.
Tom Montag
Is Is what it is. This is not symbol. I am not moving ideas about these lines. The birds speak truth to the wind as plain as they can. It does not mean something else. It is what they say it...
Andrew Turner
The wolves were not invited but they came regardless their manners were dreadful never cleaning between their claws after meals or their teeth at bedtime but they displayed a...
Karen Hodgson Pryce
The Scholar’s Fatigue We dine in a swamp of papery ideas, cornered opinions; a spiny call for digestion. When did I first reserve a table for two? Bold and proud you stack up...
Ali Jones
Archaeology When we light the fire under you, consider this; that a glowing coal, embering away, was once a tall tree, a fern, or a reed, maybe? It lived, once, a hundred...
Fiona Larkin
Lotus Garden In a shifting drift of regulars and strangers, in a passing place of daily alchemy, a cook is orchestrating a fivefold composition: a stirring of the tastebuds, a flavour...
G David Schwarz
Beverly Thompson Beverly Thompson (False name, of course) Sat in a coffin thinking it a house G David Schwarz is the former President of “Seed House”, an on-line, interfaith...
Han Adcock
Grief A blue evening in a blue room once in a blue moon. Wolves, on an outcrop and the sun beats down and the grass grows high and all the dead people milling about in the sky. All it takes...
Tony Williams
" The gruel they gave you was a poisoned mash" “The gruel they gave you was a poisoned mash. You sleep until the dreams give way to cramps. They bind your hands, and clean your mouth...
Cherry Doyle
Fox-wife When I told you I'd trick the moon right out of the sky and into your wine, your eyes said I couldn't be trusted; you knew my kind that come on the breeze, under the...
Mark William Jackson
Troubling the Absinthe Set the flame and drip water through the sugar brick, protect yourself against the sickness. Let the green fairy dance & dart between...
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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