Christmas book present #poetry #seamusheaney @faberbooks.bsky.social #MatthewHollis #rosielaven #BernardODonoghue #poetic #irishpoetry

There’s something about Christmas that just makes me want to curl up with cosy childhood classics. This year, I’ve been reading ‘The Box of Delights’.

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social takes us on a #Christmas shopping trip - the bustling streets of Swansea - in the 1980s (extract) 🏙️ 🎁 💝 🎄 🎅 Check out our Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

A @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social anthology is not just for Christmas it’s for all the whole long winter! Order here 👉 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

✨🕯️✨ Christmas Eve vibes on full blast & feeling so grateful to have 2 poems included @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social’s beautiful annual Christmas & Winter Anthology, a stunning collection celebrating this special time in a sparkling myriad of ways✨🎄✨ Available here 👉 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

These seasonal sensations from The Storms V subeditor, @rhonagreene.bsky.social, are indeed time forgotten deep buried relics that enrapture like radiant whispers, feather-light symphonies. The latest @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Silver Branch dazzles under the enchantment of this finest light!

A loyalty reward only for writers who have bought this year's Black Bough Christmas- Winter anthology. An exclusive submission window for next year's anthology on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. As ever, please read guidance closely! blackboughpoetry.com/events

☃️🔔Our Christmas Newsletter 🎅❄️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/so/0bPj8aU4v?languageTag=en

Matt!!! Thank you so much. You completely took me by surprise and now I feel there are fireworks going off in my heart with the joy and excitement you have gifted me. I honestly never imagined this. It means the world. The Silver Branch is the holy grail to me!! Wow, Wow, Wow!!!!

One of the very best people and an excellent writer ♥️ ❄️ @rhonagreene.bsky.social 🇮🇪

Over the moon that my poem “Two Headless Snowmen” is in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's Winter Anthology! ❄️ Grateful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for my first-ever Pushcart Prize nomination! 🏆

‘Magical Anxious Phantasm’ A Santa poem 🎅 #poetry #writing #Christmas #poet

Guest feature at our #openmic on Zoom tomorrow - Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social Book now to read or listen! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug... #poetry #spokenword

I can't promise to be too mysterious, but I'd love to see some of you tomorrow at the @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic. Still tickets available to read if you fancy it ☺️ #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky

This is a #winter poem which was written without using any winter words! A really great challenge from @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social over on X. #poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetrycommunity

Our contributors for the Christmas-Winter anthology no 6! 🎄🤶❄️☃️🎁 blackboughpoetry.com/news #poetic #poetry #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poet

Question 1: favourite Christmas Carol? Question 2: favourite Christmas pop song? And any other comments…

Our Christmas and winter anthology! Available in hardback and paperback 📖 🕯️ 🎄 🎅 🤶 🧝 💝 🦌 🪵 🔥 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news #books #poetry #christmas

A sophisticated gift for the discerning reader. @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In The Shadow of Gods’, a Forward Prize nominated collection. 💝 www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

This event was a lot of fun last year, and it's coming up again soon 🩵 Hoping to attend but in case I can't make it to the launch, I created a video recording of my poem to share on Bluesky sometime this month. Mentioning it, if anyone else wants to do the same ❄️

Anthologies I'm in recently: Soots and Boots, @thebrokenspine.co.uk Christmas & Winter Volume 6, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Glasgow City of Poets '25 @fromoneline.bsky.social Volume 7 I can't afford hard copies these till after Xmas, but I've read. Amazing! All avaliable on Amazon.

Our Christmas and winter anthology flying out like hot cakes. Gift this beauty this Christmas. 💝 🎁 📖 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news #poetry #writingcommunity

Get your free tickets for our Christmas and winter anthology LAUNCH this SUNDAY!! 👇 👇 👇 shorturl.at/IzQSV

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Enrich your winter reading with James McConachie’s eloquent poetry collection ‘Consolamentum’. www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu... #books #bookgifts #poetic @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

Get Matt Gilbert’s Forward Prize nominated ‘Street Sailing’ to bump up your Christmas reading. 💝 @richlyevocative.bsky.social blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert #gifts #books #poetry

Get your free tickets for our Christmas and winter anthology live launch on ZOOM this Sunday, 14th December! 🎫 🎙️ ❄️ ⛄️ 💝 📖 t.co/QW6Ir3iEl6

Our hardback Christmas and Winter anthology adorning the Christmas tree. Packed with festive, poetic gems! www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Get your free tickets for our Christmas and winter anthology live launch on ZOOM this Sunday, 14th December! 🎫 🎙️ ❄️ ⛄️ 💝 📖 t.co/QW6Ir3iEl6

A gift for the season 📖 💝 🎁 Our Christmas and winter anthology. Get it now, before Christmas! Hardback and paperback versions. 🦌 ❄️ 💫 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

I am overwhelmed with this news. Thanks so much to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for this much appreciated support of my work. I really cannot express what this means to me, honestly lost for all the words. ❤️

Our next Open Mic is tomorrow night - Monday 8th December - on Zoom! t.co/lSuoN8D5Mw

The BLACK BOUGH @pushcartprize.bsky.social nominations for this year. Ashley Linkletter @lozzawriting.bsky.social @andyperrincycling.bsky.social @poetbex.bsky.social Guinevere Clark Jude Brigley Well done to all!

A Christmas bonus book of the year. I am proud to have one short poem in this lovely book but am ever prouder to be in the company of so many excellent writers. So please do read this poem by Paul Short, which is far from seasonal whimsy.

#smallpoemsunday #poetry #poetic #micropoem

Luminate at Margam Park

My copies (yes plural) arrived today so some goodies for family for Christmas. Sorry family, but there are lots of good poets who have poems in it as well as me.

4 from The Book Bag Christmas Gift List, all from indie presses: This Wilderness & Other Concerns by @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social from @thebrokenspine.co.uk Drench Me In Silver by @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITY. The Starbeck Orion is asking for #NotAdvent departure, disappearance, breakout, abandonment, withdrawal, exodus, retreat, evacuation, absence, Extinction Event. Closing date extended to 16th December. Here are contribution details: open.substack.com/pub/the880/p...

Another book of the year. My fascination with Alexander began when I was nine when an aunt bought me a book of famous battles. Mary Renault and Robin Lane Fox added depth later. This fascinating study unraveled my picture. A really good study of what we think we know. Gripping historiography

‘Saraswati Nagpal’s poems shimmer with ancestral echoes, feminine strength, and sensory beauty’ Get @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social ‘Drench Me in Silver’ for Christmas - treat yourself or a loved one. tinyurl.com/yck4frvx

Our bumper Christmas and winter anthology - check our bio for details! The perfect gift for the literary buff. Paperback under £10! Hardback also available and very posh! #christmasgifts #books #christmas #books

Santa is taking orders now for this year’s sumptuous Christmas & Winter Anthology 6 @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Have you been naughty or nice? Still time to mend your ways!🌲🎅 📝 Available worldwide on Amazon. See details here👉 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

I'm beyond thrilled to have made the shortlist. Alongside some of my absolute favourites.

It’s Christmas now @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social’s glorious Christmas & Winter Anthology 6 is here🤩 it’s bursting with poems from the brightest stars that shine around the globe +stunning artwork So grateful @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for including 2 tiny sparkles from me👉blackboughpoetry.com/news

Just crashed thro’ my letterbox – 147 pages of #newwriting in the imagistic vein from @blackboughpoems with great illustrations by @EmmaBissonnet Another excellent anthology helmed by EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Check it out at: www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Wi...

NEWSLETTER 🗞️ Open mics, launches, a workshop to plan your 2026! blackboughpoetry.com/so/aePhMQGQI...

In between things today I will be taking a moment for a happy poet dance because I have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I love the nomination, the poem, the way the poem evolved, and the way I have evolved since writing it! Huge thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social ✍️❤️💫

Another Pushcart nomination! Such a wonderful surprise from the lovely @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. I can't stop smiling. This has definitely been my year. 🥰 Delighted to be in such 🌟 brilliant 🌟company. Well done to my worthy fellow nominees. Excellent #poetry.