A message from Sarah’s family: Our beautiful Sarah passed away on the 27th of December. As you all know she was an exceptional human being who will be greatly missed by many. You can find more information about her Farewell on fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/a...

Our last round of Pushcart Prize nominations from Black Bough. 🎉 🎈 🥳 @annachorlton.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @racheldeering.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social Merry Christmas! Well done. Your nominations are in New York

I'm listening to A Thousand Shades of Green | Merril D. Smith on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/wlei/pb-966e...

My book is currently on offer at the online site beginning with A: The Ghost Lake: A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire amzn.eu/d/dWy8be4

For the third time, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has nominated a poem of mine (that appeared in a @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social publication) for a @pushcartprize.bsky.social. I'm so grateful to him for championing my work like this, and I'd like to wish all my fellow nominees the very best of luck.

Tomorrow, Page 2 of issue #7 The Starbeck Orion features the work of Sarah O'Grady, text and audio @palimpsest22.bsky.social

Oh! What a fabulous Christmas surprise this is. Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social .

It's so wonderful to be included in this winter anthology by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social with so many fabulous poets! ❄️❄️

What a list;!

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

I am proud to announce that all books by #SidhePress have been accepted by the National Poetry Library! Congrats to @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social @alisonphipps.bsky.social @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and all contributors who trusted me with their work, a big shout out

Chuffed to have a poem of mine in here.

Grateful to have a poem on a winter solstice festival in India in this lovely compilation by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - thanks to editor @elcurwen.bsky.social and EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social - happy festivities!

I'm honoured to be guest editor of this bumper gift box of astonishing poetry. 🎄✨️

Congratulations everyone. Wonderful poets here to discover.

Three of our Pushcart Prize nominees for the TopTweetTuesday project (2024): Julian Cason Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @ivordaniel.bsky.social

So proud of my poet colleagues and their brilliant work. Congratulations and much admiration: Julian Cason @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @ivordaniel.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com Yvonne Marjot @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social

Very honoured. What a poetry week I'm having! Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and congratulations to everyone on this list!

& spoilers! but what I keep returning to with this poem? The single word distillations in it are all key elements of other poems in this collection. It's one of the most masterful keystone pieces I've ever encountered, & @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social is flame

Our books 2024, a🧵: we started off with `To Light The Trails – Poems By Women In A Violent World" My fabulous co-editors were Mo Schoenfeld @suefinch.bsky.social Giovanna MacKenna @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social Róisín Ní Neachtain. In the first few months, all proceeds from this book went to UNRWA,

Book no. 2 was the second book by Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social with Sídhe Press, `Always Fire`. This book was co-edited by Sarah herself and by @suefinch.bsky.social. @merrildsmith.bsky.social wrote the blurb & Róisín gifted us her beautiful artwork for the cover. The proceeds

Happy weekend all. Don't forget to watch out for the start of #LentoAdvent on Sunday as it is shockingly 1 December!

UNESCO is launching this fierce lantern of witness-made-poetry next week, with tiny press/enormous heart @sidhepress.bsky.social Please come, spread the word, and #KeepTellingOfGaza Thurs 5 Dec: 4pm GMT / 11am EST (5am NZT, but yes, I'll see you there) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Thanks for recommending The Ghost Lake in your Christmas gift guide, @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social ! 📕🎁 uk.bookshop.org/lists/gift-g...

~Sarah Connor from The Poet Spells Her Name (2023) #poetry

Hello Sunday, it’s a stormy morning so let’s stay inside with the #poetry #podcast & its stars Nuala MeEvoy, Koss, @moraganderson.bsky.social Richard Harries, Julie Didcock-Williams, Cathy Briel, Melanie Joy, @scyflynn.bsky.social & Klaus Funnell Also on YouTube youtu.be/cGezN5dkf3w?...

* Please share * we are a press that platforms diverse, imagistic work. We spotlight well known and lesser known writers. Anyone who makes it new, with wow factor! Inventive metaphor and jolting imagery are our thing! We are anti-discriminatory and against bigotry.

An unpublished piece, written for a TopTweetTuesday challenge and read by the incredible Marc Woodward on Sendcastle radio nearly two years ago.

A new poem posted today for Top Tweet Tuesday, a platform for imagist poetry hosted by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social over on X. 'In Polzeath, I’d split my body for him' Thought I'd share it here too. Thank you for reading 🙏🤍 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #imagist

Just reposting this as I’ve added some more poetry journals/presses:

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) bonus points today for poems w/a loose theme around *images*!! here’s a snippet by Margaret Ross, from her great book Saturday, & one by me @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social~

For #smallpoemsunday on our downundermonday - a fav wee quiet beauty from Andrea Cohen, & one from me - for the light-crawled (with thx to Black Bough Poetry for the latter's silvery home)

Absolutely gobsmacked/delighted that my new Nine Arches Press collection ‘Blackbird Singing at Dusk’ is the Observer poetry book of the month. I’m stunned. What a year this has been. #poetry

@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social this is wonderful

Urban myth We will never put out fires with gasoline we revere is far too much to waste it and will pour a planetful of life on the sacrificial pyre instead. #PoemsAbout #Fires @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #poetrycommunity

Once there was a Tabby Cat who ran a bookshop by Canterbury Cathedral. It was a marvellous place, with treasures on every shelf & free buttered toast & hot tea for all who visited. At Christmas, it glittered with lights & its window was a wonder of the city.

'We invite you, offering our words as a way' ~Khawla Badwan & Alison Phipps Keep Telling Of Gaza (Sídhe Press, 2024) Order: amzn.eu/d/4bNXgTa #poetry

✨Meet the contributors ✨ The Storms journal, issue 4 is delighted to welcome Diarmuid Cawley & his poem, Walking in St. Catherine’s, to the printed journal coming this November ⚡️ Supported by Fingal County Council & Dublin UNESCO City of Literature

This week's episode if you haven't found it yet, is another section from a long recording we made at Folkestone Warren in August. It is now daytime and the wind is up. Episode 242 - Kentish landscape time (60mins) > bit.ly/LenFolk8

Some children in my class pray for the weakening sun to last a little longer. They want to hug the last of the warmth, walk home in light. Others though, cannot wait for it to get colder. Asked why, they reply: "We want the Stay Belows to hibernate Miss." – Joanna Vickers, 1982

Sunshine and rain. 🌦️ Episode 125 - May rain in the Forest of Dean (30 mins) Tangled vines warm in the heat over the forest floor. High above the approaching clouds, a jet plane softly rumbles by. > bit.ly/LenFoD6

If this week's episode has made you want to listen to more places where the curlew roam, here's a selection of episodes to explore.

Just creeping on here to say that I won the Scots category of the McLellan Prize. I’m in Galloway waiting to see if I get further than the shortlist of the Wigtown Prize (Scots) tomorrow - I’m having a v exciting poetry year 🎉

Meet the contributors ✨ The Storms journal, issue 4 is delighted to welcome Fodhla Ward and her visual art to the printed journal coming this November ⚡️ Supported by Fingal & Dublin UNESCO City of Literature

🖼️ John Derian

A new #poem about the poet William Carlos Williams. Hope you enjoy!

One of the collections of the summer - Rachel Deering’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ - 4 months old! 🎉 📖 @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘the precision of a scientist and the furor of a visionary’ (Dr Chris Laoutaris) www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

‘I weighed the night on the scales of absence’ ⚖️ 🌙 ‘The Dead Want Their Moon Back’ By @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering