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 Sastry
Spiteful days I arrived at the divorce lawyer’s office a piece of storm-dripping whipped from the street. Deep in the hush of a building too polite to cough my trousers slowly...
Josh Ekroy
Theft is a winding but necessary route to the pinnacles of equality. To strip a flat bare is to fill it with light; objects usher in the dark. Few homes today are forgivable as the...
Adam Magee
The Fauna Watch him bide behind anorexic tree fingers. His liquid-wood skin, oxidised syrup in the trident of sunlight dangling from angler still branches. He trots past the patches of...
Lance Lee
Report from the Front Everything tumbles together, syringa in bloom, sweet clover on the air, the earth’s breath between showers, bitterns poised to strike...
Debarun Sarkar
when stories of crocodile did not belong in the zoo library under moonlight load shedding was routine before dinner on the front yard porch grandmother laid out a cot and grandfather told...
Beth McDonough
Aegopodium podagraria, a Praise Song. Now, I’ll choose to love this bishop weed’s efficiency. I shall admire his knit-wire roots, tenacious crazing tangle- down to...
Aimée Keeble
Arthur and Merlin’s Cave Rain sick, Bound by the small hours- He is fading Walks through the moors, Past the hard ponies, Their hair lumpy with burs and their noses raw with nettle...
Kiriti Sengupta
Quietude and loneliness for god’s sake, don’t take silence for granted it is loud, hypnotizing and over-rated it has a spiritual world charm attached to it you never know...
Anthony Lawrence
Difference The once-in-a-thousand-year-flood came and went. We listened as though blood were a tide our bedroom an ark. At dawn we understood the full extent of what had...
Word & Image by Helen Pletts and Romit Berger
Words by Helen Pletts (www.helenpletts.com ) whose two collections, Bottle bank and For the chiding dove, are both published by YWO/Legend Press (supported...
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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