Submissions are open! Can’t wait to get reading x

Join us this coming Friday to celebrate the launch of @moette.bsky.social's 'The Lives We Had Before' ❤️

For #smallpoemsunday ‘Multiple Flashbacks’. Thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #poetry #poet #memory #desire

‘There is an angel at every door’ Our latest #SilverBranch #poet of the month Kate Vanhinsbergh. ❄️ 🌹 👼 Check out Kate’s stirring, atmospheric #poems. www.blackboughpoetry.com/kate-vanhins...

#poetry #poetic #fragmentsfriday

Choosing #fragmentsfriday winners this week is a nightmare so requested the eye of scrutiny from Cardiff writer Elizabeth Fevyer Favourite #poems sent to Elizabeth. Merci beaucoup!

Joint third place 🥉 #fragmentsfriday LJ Ireton Captivating! @literaryvegan.bsky.social #poetry #micropoem

Joint third place 🥉 on #fragmentsfriday @hool415.bsky.social Julian Cason #poetry #writing #micropoem

Joint second place 🥈 on #fragmentsfriday @helenlaycock.bsky.social #poetry #micropoem

Joint 2nd place 🥈 on #fragmentsfriday JM Medeiros @jmmedeiros.bsky.social Congrats John!

If you enjoyed #fragmentsfriday please support Black Bough by buying and showing off ‘Shored Fragments’, our latest anthology. Let’s call it a tip! 🪙 💵 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

First place 🥇 this week on #fragmentsfriday Jo Wright on Insta!!!! #poetry #micropoem

What an honour to have a #fragmentsfriday #micropoem chosen once again as one of the top three! 🥳 Thank you to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and Elizabeth Fevyer.

Hello, Poets. I’m barely under the wire, but here’s a tiny poem for #fragmentsfriday. Diolch to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social.

#fragmentsFriday love! Thanks for the inspiration @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #micropoetry photo @oriol_portellon Unsplash

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social My micropoem for #fragmentsfriday Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the prompt. #micropoem #micropoetry #poetrychallenge

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #FragmentsFriday A start of something, someone.

For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoems – thanks to EIC Matt @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

For #TopTweetTuesday, a poem inspired by T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, with a bit of a contemporary (and Cornish) twist. Thank you to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🙏

Greetings @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for #fragmentsfriday. Thank you for keeping us on our toes with these prompts.

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for ##FragmentsFriday. Special thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting. Thanks to all for reading and commenting. I called my fragment Timed Fractals.

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for #fragmentsfriday #poetry

The world is falling apart, but we keep dancing...and writing #FragmentsFriday! With thanks, as always, to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Hi 👋 all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi 👋 & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem, 'A Donkey-Dungscape' THANKS for sharing your micro-poems, & community 🙏💚 #Poetry #PoetryCommunity

Hello @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Here's my #micropoem for #fragmentsfriday

This week’s #fragmentsfriday. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

Psycho magpies attacked a rat-searching fox in my garden. Gangland dramas in suburbia. #fragmentsfriday #micropoem #poetry

Eliot and Smith show off ‘Shored Fragments’: Poems in Response to T. S. Eliot’, which you can order right now! www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

‘Drench Me in Silver is an engaging and beautifully crafted debut…It marks Saraswati Nagpal as a poet of considerable assurance and emotional intelligence.’ 🌙 ✨ @kent-nj.bsky.social on @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social poetry collection. nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/04/18/r...

#fragmentsfriday is tomorrow on Insta, Twitter and Bluesky. #poetry #writing #writingprompt #poet #poetic

The editors @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & Kitty Donnelly of ‘Shored Fragments’ with TS Eliot. So many questions for the main man on our afternoon out. He made a sullen exit after a couple of hours, evidently feeling too challenged. www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #tseliot #modernism

Co-editor Kitty Donnelly with TS Eliot, bearing ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response of Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #eliot #modernism #poetry

Eliot and Smith show off ‘Shored Fragments’: Poems in Response to T. S. Eliot’ which you can order right now! www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

Some of our super contributors to ‘Shored Fragments’ - the Eliot anthology. @dizzylynn.bsky.social @catgraham.bsky.social @gphydeauthor.bsky.social 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #poetry #eliot #tseliot

Get the anthology everyone’s talking about. ‘Shored Fragments’ a collection responding to Eliot’s The Waste Land, with over 50 writers. Edited by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & Kitty Donnelly. 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

It’s been a tough week for many in politics. It can come back to bite. For #smallpoemsunday and @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #politics #karma #ukpolitics

Poem acceptance for a piratey-sunrise- leave the object alone #poem. Thank you

The project that nearly broke Black Bough. We present ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land’. Ed., Kitty Donnelly & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Get the book so many are talking about. 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #modernism #tseliot #wasteland

#GoodMorning! Discovered a thing. #FragmentsFriday from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social‬, so I'll bite with this slight rework. Black silhouette, Red Kite against Blue May sky. Grey-haired, I, Yellowed childhood Mountain memories, spring Green, joyous. Next up the poetry in a cup, #coffee. #poem

The Light Blues roll onward, bringing dark clouds. I shout, ‘D’you know what’s coming?’ No reply, only echoes. For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity

‪Awoken to bad news a dark shadow hangs people giving their souls to a dark force @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social‬ #fragmentsfriday

#FragmentsFriday with @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Flock dark clots against pale sky compress form black clouds soar twist wingbeat rhythm like rain on attic windows

#fragmentsfriday #poetry !

Giving #fragmentsfriday a go. @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

Joint third place 🥉 on #fragmentsfriday @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social and @gjgreenlea.bsky.social ⚡️#micropoem

Joint second on #fragmentsfriday Miles Hovey @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 🥈 Marvellous! #micropoem

🥇 first place on #fragmentsfriday @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social #micropoem

A poem about finding yourself again and the renewed ability to search and be curious.

TRIPWIRE In a field, time plays tricks. Leaves lose light. Lean lambs loop. Spring. Autumn. Autumn. Spring. Grass levitates. - Stephen Paul Wren #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#FragmentsFriday time. Thanks for hosting @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 💜