Recently, I've started writing poetry for teenagers after reading about a young person who committed suicide.

Thank you @traceyrhys.bsky.social for your kind words. BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS comes out in 10 days. Pre-order from PunkDust.com or ask your local bookshop. @jamiewoods77.bsky.social is reading at Elysium Swansea on June 26th, more dates tba. #NewPoetry #WelshPoetry #BlackSkiesDieStarless

A new poetry collection by @parthianbooks.bsky.social and Welsh writer Tracey Rhys. @traceyrhys.bsky.social ‘ I can take the slow form of droplets on your glass’.

Always a pleasure, butty 😁 It’s a great collection 😍

Read this Very Good collection by my pal @traceyrhys.bsky.social and it is Very Good but also a peak out of context comedy moment.

A #LifttotheSky #PoemsAbout #poetrycommunity to @traceyrhys.bsky.social for her brilliant debut collection @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Can't wait to join Rhian and Christina on the 19th. Book your free ticket as spaces are limited.

Looking forward to this!

Unrhyw un eisiau gweld rhestr o farddoniaeth yr haf? Mwynhewch waith newydd sbon gan @traceyrhys.bsky.social, Christina Thatcher a Rhian Elizabeth ddydd Iau 19/06 yn @cardiff-hub.bsky.social! Mae’r tocynnau am ddim yn www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs...

For #ToptweetTuesday #reviews here are my thoughts on the excellent debut from @traceyrhys.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social

A pleasure to be at the launch of @traceyrhys.bsky.social and Christina Thatcher's latest collections from @parthianbooks.bsky.social, hosted by poetry editor @soozerama.bsky.social. Reviews below alongside @pascalepetit.bsky.social from @mabjones.bsky.social 👇

nation.cymru/culture/on-b... On writing, growing up in the Rhondda Valleys, box perms, Home & Away twice daily and a lot of 80s and 90s nostalgia.

Wonderful launch of Christina Thatcher's Breaking a Mare and my own Bathing on the Roof at Waterstones Cardiff on Thursday. Such warmth! It felt dream-like to introduce my book to you.

I'm in the Western Mail Weekend magazine today talking about Bathing on the Roof! Many thanks to Jenny White for giving me the opportunity to talk about the evolution of the book. Out now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social

What is happening to the people of Gaza can happen to any of us.

Get yourself to this, Cardiff. Two very fine poets and lovely people. 🙂 Something positive and full of craft and heart, in troubled times.

Many disabled people spent 14 years holding on, surviving Tory cruelty, by focusing on 'if we can just get a Labour gov, this will stop'. I can't describe the community's betrayal and hopelessness now it's turned out Labour not only haven't stopped, they're going further. #WelfareNotWarfare 1/

I've made a late-night recording (it was 11pm so I do look a bit knackered) of one of my poems from the new collection. This one is about multiple miscarriages so bear that in mind if you feel it might upset you. youtu.be/2P1qQhMQY3E?...

I'll be launching my first full collection on April 10 at Waterstones Cardiff with fellow Parthian stablemate, the superb Christina Thatcher. We would love love LOVE to see you there! www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...

"Oxwich doesn’t wave its past in your face; it lets you stumble upon it. What it is, is a gentle, constant presence – a place that lets the bay and the cliffs do all the shouting while it leans back, waiting for you to notice just how much it has to say."

Hello Monday. 🖼️ William Joyce

I am so very happy, over the moon happy, to have two poems in the latest issue of this magazine, which I have loved for years - thank you @rialtopoetry.bsky.social x

The ghosts of the starlings.

One of the best ways to improve your own #poetry is to read other people's. I've really enjoyed the inventiveness & imagination in @janeburn.bsky.social 's new collection 'The Apothecary of Flight' published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social Here's a snippet from a poem I love. Congrats, Jane.

Ooh @corinnaboard.bsky.social has compiled 2 lists of poetry magazines so that's incredibly useful. If you look her page and click 'Starter Packs' you'll find both lists.

Hey there #writers! Just sharing this week's #writing opportunities - including an upcoming @alcs-uk.bsky.social deadline, and a prize from @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Good luck! 🤞 halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...

Here in Aotearoa it's Trans Day Of Remembrance. Every year, we light the candle Cate was gifted in Thailand, pour love & memory into the flicker & smoke, let it reach the dead. And we cry. This year, in the current shadow, more than ever. Friends, how we love you. Stay with us, any way you can.

Morning Tracy ~ now look what you gone and done ….

I'm very much looking forward to reading with the Parthian crew outside the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye over the Hay Festival Winter Weekend. It's Saturday November 30th. Come and see us!

For poets & artists, Bluesky right now feels like a family reunion, but a mythical one you *actually want to go to* & by this I even mean us introverts, a double miracle.

Thought I'd share one of my paintings. A3 Ink painting. Hand drawn mandala.

Poem of hope, and keeping going👇 #poem #poetrycommunity #poetry

Some more lovely poets to follow: (there are so many here now this is just a small selection!) @traceyrhys.bsky.social @khuangwrites.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @judemarr.bsky.social @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social #PoetsonBluesky

🖼️ Emily Robertson

Out down the lane then up to the field where the frost is already beginning to thaw. A flock of curlews lifting from the stubble field, small kestrel in the bare bones of an oak. Stubble frozen at the field edges, everything perfected by the frost. #noticings

Taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), this poem speaks of making a fresh start... ...the building's lost stories finding a voice again, blending old plots with new...

From my brand new book, Portrait in Mustard, Seren Books.

Thanks to Llanover Hall, Cardiff, for inviting me to read some poetry at the closing ceremony of their open art exhibition last month. It was a lot of fun. Beautiful harp music from Stacey Blythe, also pictured.

It's not too cold here on the South Wales coast yet but it's coming, they say. Here's a painting of mine from a few years ago. Margam Park in the frost.

Hello! It's good here, isn't it? Feels like the final scene in Logan's Run, where that weird civilisation is breaking down, boulders flying & inexplicable explosions. Then, all these folk in pleasing primary colours discover that there's another way to co-exist - why, it's Bluesky for writers!