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.
Jessica Mookherjee for International Women’s Day
Stranger I’ll ask the Moon to do my dirty work. In the backwash I wonder if the Welsh God with his untidy name, painted her. I’m the colour of the rock. I’ll be a moon-glowing...
Utsav Kaushik
Color The light of the setting sun Shining behind the trees And leaves mocking the window. Birds are... Chirping in praise of it That light has colored their feathers. I am so colored Like...
Kushal Poddar
Non sequitur I always imagined icicles as frozen sighs. Once she asked me to commit a perfect crime. I sighed close to her heart. Winter. Ducks left our city. A role play tree...
Matt Duggan
Diary of Water Rise from the water tunnels spinning from seabed, our first pierced breaths of oxygen are like an embryonic rush for birth swaying on the surface – half in one...
Kim Whysall-Hammond
Broken cable In the middle of the bright Atlantic Floating on the swell between island volcanoes Looking past reflective surface tension To silvered gas bubbles beneath catching the...
Helen May Williams
from Cancer Diary 2 20 May 2015 10:54: the crazy logic of my dreamscape lingers to mid-morning the brown bowl is cracked crazed down its left side — I unpack my life next in my...
Ed Rogers
An Ode To Hilary As though in a dream the cat outside moves above and around us as you sleep invisible to all but my ears as I work at my drawing board planning to change the...
Bruce McRae
Hatch Into Hell Demons shaving their backs, hot-wiring stolen Porches, pissing in the baby’s hair. Demons screwing with the Union, their skulls on backwards, their talons of tin...
Jamie Thunder
Lottie’s many mistakes The Burning of the Sausages was just the latest in a series of mistakes that Lottie had made that day. The first, the Forgetting to Set the Alarm, had...
Akeredolu Tope
Steady My Emotion Steady my emotion Like the ocean on a stary night Like a tattered kite In the breeze Steady my emotion Let me be led into empty space filled with love Let...
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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