Our writing themes for next week on Twitter’s TopTweetTuesday: Humanitarian / pacifism / human rights / charity. Up to 80 words of poetry, free verse, imagistic, inventive. Combine posting a poem with doing something for charity and let us know what you did so you promote the cause.

Pushcart Prize nominations need to be sent to New York by the end of the month (date stamped for end of Nov) www.pushcartprize.com

At many of our online #openmics we're going to have some surprise feature poets. This evening it's Paul Short @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Newcastle poet, who also moonlights as a book blogger on The Book Bag paulwritespoems.com

‘on certain days, / you can see the finer points of a possible extinction/ baiting the blades. dances with hard winds’ 🗡️ ☁️ 🪽 🌧️ 🌞 An amazing suite of #poems by @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...

A new #poem wot I wrote this morning in celebration of #Autumn for the lovely weekly event that happens to be TopTweetTuesday on Twitter. ‘Another Autumn Poem is Released into the World like a Takeaway Flyer’ 🍂 🌧️

The latest bumper edition of @eatthestorms.com edited by Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social Stunning publication!

Wow! This feels like it was an AGE ago ... when in fact, it's been less than a year since this appeared. My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼

New #poem - ‘Pulses’. ‘the body’s case of organs’ ‘one square of angel light’

Rewind back to last Christmas and our Christmas & winter anthology 🎄 ⛄️ 🎅 www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...

‘sweetness fledgling in the crowning dark as roving plovers, lovers, linger over last lights and coquetries.’ Jakki Bankong Obi 🖊️ 💎 @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature 🥰 www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...

Next week’s #writingprompt is… Winter, winter festivals, Diwali, Christmas. Imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse #poetry, 80 words max, no A.I. of course ☝️ Get writing! On Twitter only.

#GuyFawkes #Firework night #poem from last year!

More poems like this, please.

At a foodbank near you. 😢 The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP. #poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social

Stoked to have two poems in The Interpreter's House, alongside @moette.bsky.social, @poetbex.bsky.social and many other fine poets. About...errr... homunculi, and not going quietly into vinegary distinction. You can read both – and the rest of the issue – here theinterpretershouse.org/spires-84

Opportunity for those who like to make up caricatures of different types of poets (doing impressions). Fictional types of course, not based on anyone particular. Apply within.

‘a yearning of notes flung to the sky gods that sail upon the high wind’ 🐺 @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

‘He moves his foolish tools along the rows, to tend his lonely life, the only sun he knows.’ @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social from his poetry collection ‘Consolamentum’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...

Fill your snow boots with winter poems. Last year’s winter anthology in hard and soft back ❄️ 📖 🕯️ ❄️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...

‘Like a stranger whispering in the next room, snow comes to the desert, surprising even the saddest bird.’ ❄️ Regine Ebner from her collection ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...

A poem from my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. 👇

‘flamethrowers rut all season long and everything’s a flare of crimson hearts’ ♥️ 🔥 ‘we kiss in the aegis of bramble and pine so tender’ 🥰 @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. Check it out! www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...

@merrildsmith.bsky.social fantastic collection Held Inside The Folds of a time is in The Book Bag today. Published by @janes-studio.bsky.social Plus all the regular shouts/news/opps and playlist @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com

@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver' is available now on Amazon and at your door in days! Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI #poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry

This is a super workshop that really focuses the mind and is guaranteed to bring positivity to your poetry life. Sign up now!

Two of our runners up from the #Halloween #micropoem contest - @hool415.bsky.social and @helenlaycock.bsky.social

Winner of the #Halloween #micropoem contest - Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social with this fragment hovering between comfort, light…and horror. 🥇 Well done - a big cheery pumpkin🎃 smile to all of you who participated. Thank you. @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s book on its way. #poetry

Host today of the #Halloween micropoem contest - 14 words maximum! @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛 Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️

Some fine #Halloween micropoems today. Go for it. Go for broke! Full tilt imagination. Up to 14 words long. Tag us in. @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

For our special TopTweetTuesday on Twitter on the subject of #Halloween a pumpkin 🎃 poem for you #poetry #writingcommunity #micropoem #poem

A spidery micropoem… #poetry #spider #halloween #micropoem

These are brilliant, welcoming open mic events for the #poetrycommunity hosted with warmth, wit and discerning by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Sign up below 👇

A micro poem for a mega prize! Fingers crossed! Go on #blueskypoets! @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #poetry

🚨 Competition time 📣 👻 🧛‍♀️ 🐺 Post one chilling, spooky imagistic, inventive 14 word (max) micropoem on Halloween tagging in @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and the favourite poem/poet will receive @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social ‘Drench Me in Silver’ or another Black Bough publication. #poetry

But back to complexity. Take @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social’s fine piece👇Images made from concrete & elusive words multiply: ‘steel…shelled out skull’. ‘Spectrum’ is visible range & ghostly beyond, the last lines a metaphor but rooted in actual wounds. Living & dreaming, real horror & its myth, coexist

‘The steel of evening spirited back into its case’ Night, Jack the Ripper, the paranormal. 🩸 🧳 For our chilling Halloween TopTweetTuesday on Twitter a new #poem #JacktheRipper #halloween #poetry

Brilliant @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic last night with featured poet @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social & great MC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social I'll put my poems & recordings in the thread👇 This one is Branscombe Coast, published by @indigodreamspub.bsky.social in The Dawntreader #poetrycommunity

The @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social open mic ended with a great privilege for me when our wonderful MC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social asked me to play the session out by reprising my poem Distant Pigeon. Here's a recording of it Black Bough open mics are brilliant. Highly recommended #poetrycommunity

Finally what a thrill at the open mic to hear @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social @alicestainer.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @sarahraybould.bsky.social @paperneverrefusedink.com @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @johnadlam.bsky.social @merrildsmith.bsky.social And many more fine poetic voices 🙏

Thank you to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for a wonderful evening of poetry this evening. What a treat to listen to @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social incredible reading of her amazing poems. www.blackboughpoetry.com/louise-mache...

Matt @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social kindly asked if i'd reshare these here as well. It means so much when you read a poem and find that it has been remembered after several years. Thank you Matt and Black Bough! Diolch yn fawr iawn!

Drench yourself in Silver this Autumn with @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social debut #poetry collection ✨ shorturl.at/ZvqeC #poetry #poetrybooks #writing

‘Bold and uncompromising’ @victoriaspires.bsky.social reviews Katrina Moinet’s poetry pamphlet published by Hedgehog poetry. @hedgehogpress.co.uk www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

Looking forward to this enormously. Who else from our brilliant #poetrycommunity will be there?

Nice little group of poets forming for the next workshop ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’, Sun 16th November. Get focused and work on your 12 month writing plan ☝️ 📄 🖊️ 💻 📱 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...

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Are you a poet? Are you looking to improve your writing routines, profile, publication rate and self confidence We’ll be working on our writing plans. Join us on Sunday 16th November, 6.30 - 9.15 Uk time www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y... #poetry #writing #writers #amwriting #poets

Featured poet this evening - @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social at our open mic!!!

'Imagine meta 1 as cold as an ice pack, like Eliot in a mortuary' 🧊🐱 'like a comedian as funny as celery' 👎 'like Prynne on a piss-take' My poem about a poem about a poem for this week's #meta TopTweetTuesday #poetry #poetic #writing #writer

A poem on Sunday - ‘Call this an Ending’ #poetry #writing #poet #poetic #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky