Super excited to receive @brionycollins.bsky.social new collection ‘I Know Where The Pelicans Go’ published @atomicbooks.bsky.social Congratulations Dr Collins! ⭐️👌
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Super excited to receive @brionycollins.bsky.social new collection ‘I Know Where The Pelicans Go’ published @atomicbooks.bsky.social Congratulations Dr Collins! ⭐️👌
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
🎈⭐️🎈⭐️ 🎈⭐️ 🎈 Happy 50th birthday to the one and only, the brilliant and wonderful Damien B. Donnelly! 🥳 @eatthestorms.com 🎈⭐️🎈⭐️ 🎈⭐️ 🎈
Kyla! This would be bliss. We will make it come true. 🍽️ 🙏🫂 💚
This is the dream!!! And it will come true! Put my name in the pot!😊🫂💚
Next week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter we’d like: ~ An author photo of you. ~ A screenshot of one of your best imagistic, free verse poems - 100 words max. ~ A screenshot of some info about you as a writer and link to website/ blog/ linktree. Shop window time #poets! #writing #poet
Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for reading my book 'Sticky with Miles' about damage done by global trade for @sealeychallenge.bsky.social. DM me for a signed copy. @dreich.bsky.social
We’re thrilled to have you, congratulations ⚡️👏⚡️
Delighted to finally share the news I have been saving that the lovely @rhonagreene.bsky.social and Dami @eatthestorms.com have chosen my work to appear in Issue V of the fabulous Storms Journal alongside a wealth of wonderful poetry. #poetry #poetrycommunity
‘How can a god die?’ M.S. Evans’s ‘Moon Flesh’ from ‘Nights on the Line’. www.blackboughpoetry.com/nights-on-th... #poetry #writing
‘dressed in wind and mountain’ 🏜️ Regine Ebner’s ‘Love and Beasts’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner... #poetry #writing #poetic
‘Tonight, I am heavy amongst strangers wanting the scent of your warm neck.’ From @suefinch.bsky.social #SilverBranch series ‘I Was Light in 1977’ ✨ ⚔️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-au... #poetrycommunity #poetry
‘Hope has tested the nerve endings of my solitude’ From ‘Bluebells’ by @racheldeering.bsky.social #poetry #writing www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
Poets! Our writing plan workshop is back on Sunday 12th October. Plan your next 12 months of writing and building your profile. ✒️💻 Book and be also eligible for submitting to the #SilverBranch project. (31.8.25 submission day. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y... #writing #poetry
Hooray! Our popular Poetry Open Mic is back on Zoom on Sunday 7th September from 6:30, hosted by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🎙️ Don't miss out. Book now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-bough-poetry-open-mic-tickets-1627869644929?aff=oddtdtcreator #poetry #openmic #writing #spokenword #poetic
A special trip yesterday back to Brú na Bóinne/Newgrange site of our ancient heritage, the place I visited with my grandmother as a girl & years later was encouraged to write about it by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social who kindly published it @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Freedom-Rapture Anthology🌀🌀🌀🤸
‘I am not a woman who looks into mirrors’ Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social from ‘The Poet Spells Her Name (2023) ❤️🔥 #poetry #writingcommunity www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...
My latest #sealeychallenge read has been Paviland: Fire and Ice by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social - a fascinating exploration of the Red Lady of Paviland. Through a combination of prose and poetry, Smith tells the story of this amazing archaeological find and imagines what the future might hold for it.
It truly is an honour to put together each issue of The Storms, to see the community grow into the Storms family. Rhona & I are overjoyed to add @seanmcnicholl.bsky.social to our list of contributors and can’t wait for you all to experience The Third Pint 🎉 www.seanmcnicholl.com/post/storms-...
An incredible line up for our Autumn Open Day at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social , two of which will be online including our afternoon seminar with @conorkostick.bsky.social (tickets for Conor online will be available this afternoon)
An incredible line up for our Autumn Open Day, Saturday 30 August, at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social , two of which will be online including our evening poetry masterclass with Victoria Kennefick…
1/3 Thank you to all the folk who made the second half of The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Of Artwork And Poetry such a repast: @sprihakant.bsky.social, Vidya Hariyan, Anthony Brough, @lawrencemoore.bsky.social @feversof.bsky.social Patrick Wright, @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @sueimnw.bsky.social,
‘A sauntering dusk of smoldered glitterati, a pirate’s squandered ore, titian and maroon.’ 🏴☠️ 🔥 🎨 Regine Ebner’s book is available now www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner... #poetry #writing
For #Sealey15 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social & @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social Today US poet Regine Ebner's meditative poems of the Sonora Desert. Short quiet poems explore nature, time, self, memory, loss & change, a prismatic of life in a desert ecosystem. Beautiful work. @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Plenty news in this week’s entry in The Book Bag featuring @suefinch.bsky.social Welcome To The Museum Of A Life #poetrycommunity #poetryreview Mentions to @thebrokenspine.co.uk @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Wee Sparrow Press, @parlyareepress.bsky.social, @citizen-chris.bsky.social and more
Special call for the #SilverBranch series - 31st August only, an exclusive opportunity for those who have participated in the ‘Crafting Your Year…’ workshop. 💎 blackboughpoetry.com/events #writing #poetry
‘You cannot unhollow the sound’ Sue Finch’s #SilverBranch feature this month! @suefinch.bsky.social blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-augu…
‘The Duke’ from ‘The Keeper of Aeons’ 💀 🎻 ✨ #poem #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
🫂 Was thinking of you when I posted this!!!! 🌸will be around a bit more now I’m through the storm!🤗⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️
BOOK GIVEAWAY! Tomorrow it’s eleven weeks since my collection was published, so I’m doing a little giveaway… 1. Like and share this post 2. Leave a comment below ⬇️ 3. Tag a poetry lover The competition will run for a week and the winner will be announced next Friday 22nd August
My little meadow of wildflower delights ☀️ 🌱
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A poem by me 👇
Our host next week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter has an excellent prompt, using her #poem ‘Stretch’ as inspiration, for poems about bodies. Free verse, imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, no cliches. 100 words max! @poetbex.bsky.social Welcome back! 👏 #poetry #writing
Rise and Fall, a video poem from my second poetry collection, Back from Away, published by Turas Press ‘We are buoyant bodies, broken can be better…’ #poetry #poetryfilm #poetrycommunity #Ireland Shot on location on #Rush beach This mentoring of this collection was supported by @fingal.ie
Folks, please be part of this. Please come along to this. Please donate to and support this. Please publicise this. Even if you can't attend yourself. 🙏🏼🇵🇸💚
*privilege!!!
What a beautiful journey it was. Thank you Dami for this incredible experience and thanks to all the brilliant contributors. It was pure joy and an immense privelege to be immersed in such glorious work⚡️ ♥️ ⚡️
Thanks to everyone who submitted to issue V of The Storms journal. Subeditor @rhonagreene.bsky.social & myself ate, drank & dreamt of each offering and now have 89 star Stormers, lots of new names to the Storms family alongside many returning to the Storm shelter. @fingal.ie #DublinUNESCO 🙏🙏
‘There’s a Doll Thumping in My Chest’ ‘I spend a long time soothing her to sleep’ ‘trust me she cries easily’ 👶 ❤️🔥 From @suefinch.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature, a hard-hitting poem. www.blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-au... #poetry #writing
Someone's dream job 👇
📣 Our #SilverBranch series feature poet for August 2025 ☀️ 📣 Sue Finch @suefinch.bsky.social 🖊️ 💎 ‘I will howl for its dark future’ 🦇 Full feature: blackboughpoetry.com/sue-finch-augu… #poetry #writingcommunity
A ‘doxology’ is an expression of faith. This is a poetic one for my father, adapted from the well known Catholic one. 13 years gone and missed every day. Written this morning for TopTweetTuesday and our host Ruby Mohan. #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingcommunity
Next week, we’re heading for the mountains on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter as our next host is Sarah Raybould @sarahraybould.bsky.social a fairly recent addition to TopTweetTuesday in 2025 with oodles of poetic talent and generosity to other writers demonstrated each week. Challenge coming up! 🖊️ 💎
Speak up for those whose voices are being silenced so brutally, violently, senselessly. Act for all who cannot: for the oppressed, the worn-down, the torn-down, the minimised. Israel has at last shown its true colours – colours of fear, cowardice and cruelty. Stop arming its perpetual war. Speak up.
It’s the final week of decision making at Storm central. The long, long list was taken down to a long short list, to a shorter list & now the final ache of losing your darlings. Now weighing apples against apples & snakes against snakes & we’ve many amazing snakes. @rhonagreene.bsky.social
‘a swindler, troubled and untroubled, she loves and sleeps like a poet.’ ‘The Night Heron’ from @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
‘Strong in the heart, ready for fencing again, for sun-sloped meadows north, thick with green butterflies’ 💪 ♥️ ‘Bastón’ from ‘Consolamentum’ by James McConachie. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
Superb work! Congratulations 👏💫⭐️💫⭐️
So proud to be a producer on Dublin, One City, Many Stories, a collaboration between the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social & Dublin City of Literature A 6-part video series celebrating literature & legacy. In Video 1, Joseph O’Connor talks to Madeleine Keane. irishwriterscentre.ie/video-series...
The magic of an Irish rainforest
This week’s TopTweetTuesday host is walking a llama. As you do. Welcome @carolsheppard.bsky.social - challenge in pic 2 #poet #poetrycommunity #writinginspiration #writingprompts
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Also in the post! 'Beautiful Little Fools Poetry of Glamour, Obsession, and the Gilded Age' @thebrokenspine.co.uk edited by @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social & @alanparrywriter.co.uk featuring a host of fab poets including @eatthestorms.com @lozzawriting.bsky.social @rotherwrites.bsky.social 🍾 🥂 ✨
'Eurydice in The Ruined House⭐️ by the wonderful @annasaund.bsky.social @indigodreamspub.bsky.social has arrived! Very special thanks to Dawn Bauring for going to endless trouble bypassing customs obstacles. 🤗👏⭐️
Wonderful delivery of ‘Singletary’ by the brilliant @gbclarkson.bsky.social published by Shearsman Books arrived today! So excited to read it. Congratulations G! 💖🤗⭐️🥦⭐️
Luminous art by Swapna Maini (@swapnamaini on IG) for poetry of the heart. Can't thank you enough for this tender, romantic cover. How lucky am I? How talented is she! Coming soon with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - Drench Me in Silver!
Exciting!!!
‘I’m meshed into a tousled briar’ ‘The garden, knee deep in my dereliction’ ‘Liebre’ by @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social from ‘Consolamentum’. www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
‘the blood roamed my body, glacial-paced’ 🧊 ‘in my love poverty’ 🩵 ‘January’ by @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
‘I was not the executioner, although I lit the match’ 🔥 🐀 ‘Rats…’ by Matt Gilbert from ‘Street Sailing’. @richlyevocative.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert
A poem by me… 👇
🤣 Fleur used to do that too! I found a desiccated frog behind a curtain once and as a young kitten she used to drag yards and yards of pond weed back from a garden at the back of us 😂 over walls and up into our house through the catflap. 😂😂😂🐈 🐸
TONIGHT — 23:00 BST I’m reading oh, man! solo at #NorthBayPoetics. Hosted by Karen Pierce Gonzalez. Global open mic: @julianday.bsky.social, #KeithMar, #KarenFitzgerald + more. DM for audience link. 📩 @alanparrywriter.co.uk / @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Today is the 10th anniversary of Ireland's gender recognition act. Ireland's gender recognition is through self-declaration without the need for permission from a doctor, panel or judge etc. In the past decade nothing bad happened. youtu.be/1f8OxezAqTk?...
In the TopTweetTuesday hotseat this week on Twitter, setting the 44 word (quadrille) challenge that should include the word ‘unruly’, it’s writer Kim Russell. Check out her blog! writinginnorthnorfolk.com/about/
Excellent 👏
Some excellent tips on #poetryreading etiquette in this article ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Subeditor @rhonagreene.bsky.social and EIC Damien B. Donnelly are now working through the shortlist for Issue 5 and hope to have our final selection before the end of July 2025! In the meantime, you can Flip through Issue 2, with cover art by Jane Rainey… online.fliphtml5.com/uggrh/rqoj/
It’s going to be very special⚡️ 👁️ ⚡️
⚡️Thanks to all who submitted to The Storms journal, Issue V Myself & my star subeditor @rhonagreene.bsky.social are now in the eye of the storm, agonising over what to keep. A simple no is never that simple, never a snap decision. Back next month with the final line up. 😉
We proudly present Manchester poet Louise Machen's debut collection, 'I Am Not Light'. Get your copy NOW! "crafted, sensuous imagery, daring the reader to 'Wade in, take the risk'" (John McCullough) @louloumach.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/copy-of-regi...
A review by stellar poet @stumcpherson.bsky.social of @louloumach.bsky.social’s ‘I Am Not Light’ - get Louise’s must-have poetry collection www.blackboughpoetry.com/copy-of-regi... #poetry #books #bookclub #poetic #poet #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #writers #writing
Read @alanparry83.bsky.social deep dive in my new poem from the @brokenspinearts.bsky.social anthology The Whiskey Tree, Untamed Love ‘It’s a poem that confronts sex not just as an act but as a site of memory, trauma, pleasure, and contradiction.’ substack.com/profile/1650...
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Submissions have now closed for Issue 5 and the reading has begun! ⚡️⚡️⚡️
On Wednesday 18 June we’re hosting the 1st of our Writers Showcases at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social with @scyflynn.bsky.social @itosha.bsky.social @lukemorganpoet.bsky.social @laurenodonovanw.bsky.social & D’or Seifer Come join us for poetry & community 🎉🎉
Super night! Stunning poetry! 👏👏👏
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Book your ticket for this evening’s book launch on Zoom - Regine Ebner’s ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’ with special guests! See you there! t.co/hqillb9yFx
#ShutTheeCakeOylePress This Day. If you have a creative response to it. Email it to me, and I will feature it in my new challenge, "Created Responses To This Day." Future possibility of your response in print next year with "Thin As A Lath" editions of Shut Thee Cake Oyle Press.
🤗 😢 better days are coming. Holding you in our hearts.🫂🙏❤️🩹
💫💫💫 Surprise delivery! ‘I Am Not Light’ by @louloumach.bsky.social published @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social just galloped up the driveway! This is going to be special! Congratulations Lou, so excited to read it. 💫💫💫
Always a pleasure❤️🔥
Excited to read The Whiskey Tree Untamed Love Wave 2 @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Ed. @alanparry83.bsky.social including poems by jenferoze.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com @brionycollins.bsky.social @elcurwen.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social & many more. A sizzler! ❤️🔥
Thoroughly recommend. The writing part takes care of itself (we hope), but the self-promotion and building community can be mystifying. Do yourself a favour and set yourself some clear goals with this workshop
This week’s TopTweetTuesday - theme: spirit of place - imagistic, 75 words max. Regine Ebner at the helm! Only on Twitter.
Wow! 🤩 Louise Machen’s @louloumach.bsky.social ‘I Am Not Light’ is… No 15 on the ‘British poetry chart’ 🔥 No 16 on the ‘Erotic poetry’ chart 😮 No 2 on ‘Motivational and Inspirational chart’ 💫 Thanks, please keep it going! 🙏 www.blackboughpoetry.com/copy-of-regi...
Some of you know I run a wee bit. Every day of June, I'm running for Pride, fundraising for 🌈 groups in Aotearoa. Every step I take is for ppl who might still be here if that kind of support had the $ it deserves. If you'd like to sponsor me I'd love that 🩵 www.sweatwithpride.com/fundraisers/...
This is going to be a wonderful night💫
We're back on Sunday 13th July with our course to get you poets organised and focused! From focusing on writing time, submissions, use of social media, what you're reading, to developing links and boosting your profile, it will be focused! Book now! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...
Entry No. 1 of The Book Bag: Poetic Voices - @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social a man of immense talent. #poetrycommunity
Love this - @louloumach.bsky.social book on tour!
The #SilverBranch series writer of the month for June. 💎 ❤️🔥 London born @vikkicwrites.bsky.social with a suite of romantic, oblique, bittersweet poems. We’ll be sharing this creative’s distinctive work throughout the month. www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1-1
✨️So honoured to be featured as this month's @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch poet 💎 Gratitude to EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for inviting me & curating this special selection of my work. Do take a read: includes 13 new & exclusive poems + insights on my writing ✨️ #PoetryCommunity
Oh gosh!!! The relief. I wish she could talk! So happy for you. It’s just awful going through that. Happy day!!!! 🙏🤗❤️
Posie is home! 🙏🥳❤️
Posie!!!!😮😍😍😍😍😍hurray!!!!! He never fails!!! Gosh she’s so bold, so good! We love her!!! Oh I’m so happy for you all . 🙏🤗👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
🌑 🔥 Louise Machen’s poetry collection ‘I Am Not Light’ is launched🔥 🌑 Check out her writer page on our website with links to buy! shorturl.at/7tZkL #books #writing #writingcommunity #poetic #poetry #poet @louloumach.bsky.social
