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Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
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Fantastic News ! Congratulations Carolyn !
Thanks so much, Bernard 💙
Many congratulations! I somehow missed out this wonderful news! It’s an excellent piece on a very important part of the ecological system. Thank you for sharing! 🙏💫
Thanks very much 😊 Thrilled you liked it 💙
Thank you so much for your very kind words 💙
Love it 😊 and I have a great fondness for owls so it’s a lovely start to the day 😁
Thank you, Paul 😊
Loved it 😊
Thanks, Jan 🙏
Thanks, Sue 🥰
Thank you ❤️
🤗 Take care, Debbie
No, But I’ve loved what I’ve read so far and a shout out to @dragonslayerma.bsky.social and @sueimnw.bsky.social for their pieces, too. Thanks, Ju
Aw, thank you 💙
Hullo I’m going to #lifttothesky @carolynthomas.bsky.social as I think she won’t expect it today, she’s also currently under the weather. Her work is always crafted and impactful and for me seems to hang around rent-free for days! (If I spoke Welsh I would insert the most apt phrase here for her!)
Thank you so much, Ju. Indeed, it’s a lovely surprise. Diolch o galon (heartfelt thanks). You’re so generous and have made my day ❤️
For #PromptCombo #winged with thanks to @hool415.bsky.social for hosting and including birds - so what else could I do?
Ooh, this is just joyous! ‘a garden gnome on grass’ and I’m sharing its laughter. Thank you, Sue 💙
Hello Ju, here's an old one of mine that fits #Winged for #PromptCombo @hool415.bsky.social Have a fabulous week hosting my friend❤️
‘nature’s ghostly survivor’. Love this, Fidel, and I’m delighting in ‘a soaring triumphant hoot’ 💙
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Most welcome, Jan 😊
Thank you 😊 That’s especially nice at a time when I’m cursed with a migraine so just dipping in today! But your prompt is inspiring some lovely work so far. Love yours and the ones from @janpsolivagant.bsky.social and @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social Can’t read too much (and can’t write!) at the mo 😩
An #ekphrastic #poem inspired by #WordedArt prompt: #Callused which i hope fits for this week’s #promptcombo #winged too… for host @hool415.bsky.social also for #vss365 #Oulens #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #BlueskyPoetry
Wow! Love this! The colour, the bluesiness - just joyous. It’s brought a huge smile to a migraine riddled head!
Out with summer's heat, in with something hotter. Congratulations to the fifteen poets whose work makes up wave twenty-three of @iambapoet.com. You'll be able to read – and hear them read – all 45 poems from September 15th. #poetry #spokenword #iamb #wavetwentythree
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Undod I chi, fy annwyl 🥰
Hullo I’m hosting this week. Tag me @hool415.bsky.social and #promptcombo #winged (anything goes: angels, planes, birds etc!) Challenge closes early this week on Friday afternoon. Enjoy! @rfsmith.bsky.social @dragonslayerma.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social
This is glorious! Love the idea of Eric gatecrashing the wedding! So much warmth and gentle humour here 💙
A new week & that means the countdown to 'Out There' launch day!❤️ Here is the link to purchase: lettertecbookstore.com/product/out-... Proceeds from the book will go to supporting testicular cancer awareness and care. St. James's Hospital Foundation. Donate by scanning this QR Code
An enormous #LifttotheSky for the splendid and generous @hool415.bsky.social for stunning poetry, warm encouragement and support to the #poetrycommunity and being an all round good guy. Diolch, Ju. @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
🙏 @hool415.bsky.social for hosting #promptcombo #Winged #poetry: ©Jan Peters/Solivagant Wisdom, 2025 #Rooks #corvids #plaguedoctors #flagellants #RussianArt #dreams #sleep #DepthPsychology #EastAnglia #birdsong #naturepoetry
‘We delight in the/ Frisson of menace and/ Hilarity they excite’, which is exactly how I feel about this poem! Love the images - ‘Clownish plague-doctors’, ‘avian ink-blots’, ‘they amass as flagellants’ - and the movement and noise which you’ve captured perfectly. Absolutely adore this poem, Jan 💙
Delighted for you 😁
Great poem, Jane 😊 So glad you shared it
Fantastic 👏👏👏
A 36 word imagist poem for @carolynthomas.bsky.social #breathless prompt on the other channel. #poetrycommunity #BlueSkyPoets
Glorious, Jane! Stunning compounds from ‘hot-sunned’ figs to ‘deer-red’ autumn, - so evocative - and the vivid descriptions, from lizards ‘motionless on lichened stone’ to leaves ‘dry and crisp as winter portents’. The initial repetition - ‘Still’ - emphasises the beauty of nature undisturbed. 🙏
Absolute pleasure 😊 should have done it ages ago 😁
Congratulations! This is a magnificent poem! Right up my ice floe! 😍👏👏🪶💫
Thanks so much, Jan 😁
Long overdue #LifttotheSky for @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social, a great poet and a massively supportive member of the #poetrycommunity #poetssupporrtingpoets @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
And you succeed 😊
#poem #death #poet #rainbows #silly I am a dark poet!!
Delightful dark humour, Dave 😁
Thank you so much for your generous words, Paul 🙏 I really appreciate it
I'm loving this vote of confidence for my return to writing on # poemsabout. Can't wait to get back to it.
‘We were mirrors of each other: Clockhouse labels, Opal Fruits, laburnum flowers in our hair,’ 🪞 🍬 @louloumach.bsky.social from ‘I Am Not Light’ shorturl.at/m5IM1 #poetry #writing #books #poetic
@icefloepress.bsky.social proved in 2023’s #IndieLitMagGala that indie lit can be global, poetic, and politically charged. We’re about to do it all again. Get ready to shout out the presses you love—form coming soon. 👉
Thanks, Dave 😊
You, too, Paul 💙
Thrilled my poem about the iceberg A23a is in the second Molecules Unlimited anthology. Wonderful to be among great poets and delighted to be with you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @davgar51.bsky.social
An overdue #lifttothesky to @suefinch.bsky.social for her excellent poetry
Feeling special. Thank you, Carolyn! 🥰
Such a pleasure, Merril 💙 More than deserved
Absolute pleasure 💙
A huge #LifttotheSky for @merrildsmith.bsky.social for her stunning poems and photographs and her unfailing engagement with and support for #poetrycommunity #Blueskypoets @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Totally deserved, Paul 😊
So delighted to be part of this 9th Issue of 3 poems from past and Future Candyman's Trumpets. Huge thanks to Jack Caradoc - the excellent editor - and fellow poets Katy Ewing and Trevor Wedge www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgjV... #candymanstrumpet
Condemning myriad forms of brutality and oppression around the globe, ‘How worlds end #4’ by @johnadlam.bsky.social names what we’re up against, including the horrors so many people are facing at this moment. Do not give in. Do not stop fighting. To quote Timothy Synder: ‘Do not obey in advance.’
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Delightful they are, Roger 😊
Oh, that’s excellent news and a wonderful place to holiday 😊
More than welcome, Jane
You’re more than welcome 😊
You’re most welcome. You’ve really honoured him here
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It’s an absolute stunner and wonderful that so many people will get to read it through all the platforms used by @inksweatandtears.co.uk
It's very tricky subject, it's so huge - poems can spiral out forever. But think you've done a great job here, it feels so apt and true and now, especially as peace negotiations don't even involve the country that was invaded! Such strange times, you've show that so clearly here, excellent
Thank you so much for your very kind words, Peter 🙏💙
Thank you so much though you generously overestimate my capability with technology 🤣 I’m delighted to have helped make your day 💙 nothing could be nicer
Convinced I had nothing to contribute to this week's #poemsabout #ceasefire with @alanparrywriter.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk, I suddenly remembered this – a poem recently completed after 13 years of tinkering. Once again, I'm coming at the prompt slant.
That final line is deadly, the game completely out of hand and such a contrast in mood. Great writing, Mark
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You’re most welcome 😊
You certainly did 😊 Great write
Loved it! 💙
So deserved - it’s brilliant
Oh lord 🙈 I hope he enjoyed it too! I’m utterly hopeless 🤣 It’s a great poem - puts me in mind of the great tradition of Welsh writing in English 💙
Thank you, Ulrica 😊
Thank you, Ulrica 😊
This is a most fascinating description of a domestic ceasefire… loved it! These seemingly innocent lines “One cooks their favourite meal; the other arranges flowers,…” describes the lull before the storm with perfection.
Thanks so much 😊 Delighted you enjoyed it
I haven't got time for #PoemsAbout #ceasefire today. It's my daughter's wedding day. Ohh - Hang on a moment. I could just adapt the speech and add a paragraph at the bottom of it.
Lovely, Mike. So much paternal warmth and joy here and then that final stanza! A great take with an undertone of partially amused anxiety. I hope the ceasefire was maintained and the day as celebratory as you wished.
For #PoemsAbout #Ceasefire ✨ For @thebrokenspine.co.uk & @alanparrywriter.co.uk
An outstanding poem, passionate, agonising and visceral. Powerfully raw images conjure the wreckage of war in this intimate celebration of love. Deeply moving, and that final stanza is devastating and haunting in its starkness. I loved everything about this piece
For this week #poemsabout #ceasefire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk this is the true story of my Dad (born in 1922) being on a military charge on Armistice day, as he'd gone awol on a stolen motorbike, to visit his father, who was dying.
A really powerful piece, Ali. The irony that he should be shackled in a cell, so unaware the war had ended and that final shattering stanza where, almost a spectator of the celebrations, he sees only the cost of war. A deeply personal poem which speaks a universal truth. Love the imagery, too
The US president once said there would be hell to pay if a ceasefire was not accepted in Gaza #poemsabout #Ceasefire @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
‘This isn’t war/ it’s an agreement with despair’ and you conjure such a lascerating vision of horror - uncompromising, visceral - yet this is balanced by defiance - ‘And still there is humanity here’ in deeply evocative detail - ‘somewhere the smell of bread/ must rise again’. Amazing writing
This one won't make me many friends, but here are my thoughts anyway. #PoemsAbout #ceasefire #writingcommunity #blueskypoets @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk
A moving and intelligent piece which interrogates the way in which certain conflicts are privileged in the popular imagination while elsewhere ‘the little people, unsung, their voices/ unheard, grown hoarse with thirst and children dying’ are ignored. A powerful, disquieting and timely indictment
A wonderful poem by @paulconnolly.bsky.social published in the excellent @inksweatandtears.co.uk
This captivating piece is stunningly beautiful, evocative and wise. Brilliant writing from @paulconnolly.bsky.social
Stunning, Paul. Glorious writing and congratulations 💙
Absolutely right and it does