We pass from ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land’ to Polly Oliver’s ‘Edges of Our Days’. The proverbial baton passed over on Mumbles pier. Two poets connecting across time. www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver...

Beat writers Ginsberg and Kerouac devouring Polly Oliver’s poetry collection ‘Edges of Our Days’. @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity #beats

ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us on Saturday 8th August, midday, at Harry's Bar, Mumbles, Swansea to celebrate the in-person launch of Polly Oliver's 'Edges of Our Days' with guest readers. Unmissable! Diarise right now and let us know if you're coming! @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social #poetry #spokenword

#fragmentsfriday #poetry tomorrow!

Polly Oliver gives her book to Vernon Watkins on his 120th birthday today in the splendid company of #DylanThomas Polly’s book - www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social

For #smallpoemsunday and platform guru @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 🌱 An inverted #poem #micropoem #loss #grief #poetry ❤️‍🔥

#fragmentsfriday #poetry #writing #poem #poet #love #connection #grief

Launching tomorrow and available on Amazon, Polly Oliver’s ‘Edges of Our Days’, a full poetry collection by the #Mumbles #poet 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social #gower #poetry #coastal #beach #wales #cornwall

Latest editing work on a magnificent, stirring debut #poetry collection by @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social Editor @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social is privileged to curate this with Polly, two Swansea #poets - out FRIDAY’ #gower #mumbles #books

Launched this Friday - Polly Oliver’s poetry collection ‘Edges of Our Days’ with Black Bough. @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social #poetrybooks #poetry #poet #poetrylovers #Gower

#fathersday #children #smallpoemsunday #fathers #poem ❤️ ❤️

What lovely news this Saturday morning! 🥰 Thank you to the wonderful @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social!

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday

Joint 3rd on #fragmentsfriday #poetic #poetry #micropoem @helenlaycock.bsky.social

Joint 3rd on #fragmentsfriday Steve Birt #poetry #micropoem

Joint 2nd 🥈 on #fragmentsfriday Vanessa Napolitano @moette.bsky.social #poetry #micropoem

Joint 🥈 place - @gjgreenlea.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday #poetry #micropoem

In 1st place 🥇 🏆 🔥 on #fragmentsfriday #poetry #micropoem Ashley Linkletter

Lynn Valentine from ‘Shored Fragments’ available on Amazon @dizzylynn.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #poetry #poetrylovers #poetic #eliot

A constructivist musing for this week's #FragmentsFriday hosted by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

#FragmentsFriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social one for the under 16s facing the big ban in the UK. Charnal slinkways hedge city streets catty chicanery slips security 🔐 walls morph into opportunity

Thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social Here’s my #fragmentsfriday and my final Joyce inspired piece for the week

My very first for #FragmentsFriday. Just a tossed out one to get my bearings. Appreciation to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting!

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social My profuse apologies for the lateness in submitting for #fragmentsfriday Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the prompt. #micropoem #micropoetry

As a dendrophile, I was sad to read that well-meaning lifesaving efforts hastened this patient’s demise. Given Robin Hood was nearest kin, I chose to meld the two deaths in my micro. Article in comments. Thx to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #FragmentsFriday

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my 'Solstice' #micropoem, Celestial Drafts THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for #FragmentsFriday special thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting and for all the wonderful poets participating. #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #MicroPoem

Look forward to reading your #fragmentsfriday #poems 18 words max!! #poetsofbluesky #poetry #writing

This week’s #fragmentsfriday is inspired by David Hockney’s joiners photo collages. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

For #fragmentsfriday ‘Ageing Dad-Man Hits the #Dancefloor’ #poetry #poetrylovers #fathers #disco

Let me take you to the marshes of Penclawdd for the weekly poetry fest that is TopTweetTuesday. #poetry #bogs #marshes #gower #micropoem

For #smallpoemsunday and super host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ‘Witnessing Body’ #poetrylovers #prayer #poets #poetrytwitter

Saturday #poem #poetry #selfhood #poetrylovers #lonesome

Hello, Poets. For #FragmentsFriday, a small encomium for the poet Federico García Lorca, who fought fascism in Spain and was assassinated by firing squad for his opposition to Franco. Much gratitude, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social.

My father would have been 78 yesterday. ❤️‍🔥 For #fragmentsfriday ‘Father, I recount’ #poetry #fathers #sons #writing #fathersday #poetrylovers #grief

It's been a while since I posted anything for @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social The Attic Bee In the attic's wheezelung, among beamshadow and tarnishlings, a bee licks yeardust from mothwounds. #writerscommunity #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Here’s my micropoem for #fragmentsfriday Thanks, as ever, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the prompt. #micropoem #micropoetry

It’s been a long time between posts but time to put pencil to ipad. Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday

Crazy busy - but never too busy for a bit of #fragmentsFriday. Thanks, merci, gracias to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social! 🙏🩵

I was given a challenge by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social to write a poem that includes cats and burping stars. So here's one for #FragmentsFriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

This Wednesday 10th June, you are cordially invited to the online Zoom launch of ‘Shored Fragments’. Get booking, get inspired by our poems in response to Eliot’s The Waste Land. 👇 👇 👇 shorturl.at/asE2f

Book now to join in Anna Saunders’s guest reading with open mic tomorrow Monday 8th June. Live on Zoom! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...

For #smallpoemsunday ‘Pagan’s Sunset’ - thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social for curating this platform. #poetry #prayer #rhossili #sunset

My review of the latest @poetrywales.bsky.social for Black Bough book of the month. Mentions for Daniel Sluman, Laura Wainwright, Arthur Sze, James McConachie and more. Strong balance between Welsh writers and international 👏 Get a subscription. www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

‘Without Naming’ #fragmentsfriday #poem #micropoem #poetry

With Robert Minhinnick at Poetry into Light.

With Owen Sheers at Poetry into Light.

Trails.

‘Danse Russe’ by William Carlos Williams. ‘Who shall say I am not the happy genius of my household?’ #poetry #modernism

Inspired by William Carlos Williams’s ‘A Love Song’, I have written ‘Reconstituted’. Quite simple and weird. #TopTweetTuesday #micropoem #imagism #poetry #poetic