It's finally the season for sitting on the back step and admiring treasures we collect for each other. This is from my new @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Silver Branch feature, with huge thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🍃 www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1 Take a look at the past features too!

#poetry #writing #writingcommunity ‘Pre-destination’ #touch #seduction

Very pleased to have two poems in ‘Unwhispered Legacy’, an anthology of #poems curated by @paulwritespoems.bsky.social 🤩 #poetic #writingcommunity

Honoured to have this Silver Branch feature up at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - thank you so much @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🫶🏼

Chat GPT and I had words earlier ☝️ Fed up of seeing the same words in A I advertising. I don’t use AI for writing but I can often spot it! #AI #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #hal #2001aspaceodyssey #2001 ‘Open the pod bay doors, Hal.’

In The Book Bag this week, we go to the 'After Party'. This debut collection from Dean Brown is a corker of a book. Settle in and read my thoughts here. Also have news, recap and of course a book bag and an afterpart needs the playlist...

For #smallpoemsunday and host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ‘Itinerant Poet’. Tom has a book out soon with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #shortpoem #micropoem #poetry #poet

Submitted a poem about Antarctica for the @magmapoetry.bsky.social call 🧊 ❄️ #poetry #writing

For #fragmentsfriday ‘I Telescope Back to this Planet’ ‘after travelling impossibly far outwards’ 🦕 🦖 🌎 ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ 🔭 #poetry #writing #poem #micropoem #poetic #writingprompt

A one off #TopTweetTuesday where we will also run this on Bluesky. Next week’s prompts: - prophecy, collision of present day and myth, ritual, the future, the city. Up to 120 words. Imagistic, metaphorical, free verse. Inventive, quirky. Bold title, your name italicised. No A.I.

‘You were imprisoned inland, existing like a body in state’ Anyone miss the #ocean? ☀️ 🌊 A new #poem for TopTweetTuesday on Twitter #holidays #vacations #seaside @visitwales.bsky.social

For #smallpoemsunday a muse #poem Thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social who has a book coming out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #touch #night #passion

What is this (Uk)?

For #promptcombo ‘Insomnia’ 🌒 #shortpoem #poem #micropoem #poetry #writing

On #WorldPoetryDay, ‘Grey Heron’ from @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In the Shadow of Gods’. www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering #poetrylovers

Content warning: #genocide. ‼️ On #WorldPoetryDay James McConachie’s ‘Meat Tray’ from Consolamentum. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...

On #WorldPoetryDay Matt Gilbert’s poem about Peregrine Falcons from ‘Street Sailing’ @richlyevocative.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert

On #WorldPoetryDay M.S. Evans with ‘Sleeping Rough Calgary’ ❄️ ✨ www.blackboughpoetry.com/nights-on-th...

‘Spring as a Facemask’ for #fragmentsfriday #poem #poetry #writing #writingprompts #beauty #facemask #facialcleansing

Really useful example and notes from @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social about what to avoid in the quest to create quality #poetry. Seeing language being used in a completely fresh way is definitely what makes me sit up and notice a poem. If I’ve seen it before, I don’t want to see it again! 🤓

SHARE AWAY ‼️ I get asked about cliches in #poetry and what is a tired #poem. Here is an example I’ve written and a damning critique. Brace yourself #poets! 🚨 #writing

Grateful to The Book Bag for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social nomination!

Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. I’m truly honoured that my poem was chosen. I appreciate the support and recognition.🤩

Congratulations to Swansea poet Guinevere Clark for her nomination to the @forwardprizes.bsky.social by Black Bough for #poem ‘Snow and the Alchemy of Pause’.

Congratulations to Leigh Anthony Manley for his nomination to the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for ‘Best Single Poem’ by Black Bough Poetry - a moving poem about a cemetery visit. #writing #forwardprizes

Congratulations to Cardiff poet David Hanlon for his nomination for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social by Black Bough for his #poem ‘Two Headless Snowmen’ @vespertine4.bsky.social #writing #poetry

Such are the weird and wonderful worlds of poetry and the creative arts - I had a message asking if a poem of mine ‘By St Teilo’s Waters’ could be set to music and performed by a Swansea choir. Surreal. This was first published by Arachne Press. #poet #poetic #writing @arachnepress.bsky.social

I’ve had the ok to get my PhD published by a University Press. This has become a life goal over the years since I finished the research. Grateful and hope it goes ok. Book on Robert Graves and Wales. #research #robertgraves #academic #writing

For one of the best mothers in the world, who is an amazing role model for our girls. Thanks for the platform @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #mothersdayspecial❤️ #mothersday #smallpoemsunday #poetry

Despite the rain, the chill, winter's reluctance to cede his throne, spring arrives with daffodils, birdsong, the lengthening of days. Welcoming it are the 15 poets of wave twenty-five of @iamb.uk. Expect 45 poems, written and read – fresh as the incoming season. iamb.uk/index/wave/25

Time to choose the victor/s in this week’s #fragmentsfriday

In 3rd place 🥉 🔥 on #fragmentsfriday @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social 💫 #writingprompts #poetry #poetic #poetry

VICTOR 🔥 🔥 🔥 #fragmentsfriday 🏆 First place ⭐️ ‘Murmuration’ by Julian Cason @hool415.bsky.social A second win for the Cardiff poet 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #poetry #poet #writing #writingprompts

In second place on #fragmentsfriday 🔥 🥈 A little bit of genius from Tim Green #writing #poetry

For #fragmentsfriday ‘Instant Overwhelm’. #micropoetry #poetry #poetic #poet #writing #shortpoem

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and to the 18 words of #fragmentsfriday #poetry @jackdaniels75.bsky.social #ThisIsWhereYouDied #PoetryPrompts #WritingCommunity #PedroPascal

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and to the 18 words of #fragmentsfriday #poetry

It’s #fragmentsfriday tomorrow. Startle and wow us with your #micropoem 18 words max!

‘A Stranger’, for #smallpoemsunday hosted by @tomsnarsky.bsky.social , who has a poetry collection out soon. #poem #love #muse #poetry #poet

What would I like to do with my life? I would like to be someone who didn’t bomb other people to death.

‘a luminous meditation on the sacred feminine’ @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social on @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s ‘Drench Me in Silver’ shorturl.at/YejYQ

‘One of the most exciting contemporary poets I have read’ @wendycaitlin.bsky.social on @louloumach.bsky.social ‘I Am Not Light’ ❤️‍🔥 shorturl.at/xeInp

‘Rachel Deering writes with scalpel-sharp precision’ @brionycollins.bsky.social on @racheldeering.bsky.social ’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

‘These poems will call you back’ @nessowen.bsky.social on Sarah Connor’s ‘The Poet Spells Her Name’ ❄️ @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...

‘a gleaming thread through the old map of the imagist landscape’ Ankh Spice on M. S. Evans’s ‘Nights on the Line’ @seagoatscreams.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/nights-on-th...

📣 Winner and 2nd and 3rd places for #fragmentsfriday Rob Galpin @robgalpin.bsky.social 1st place 🥇 Eileen Carney Hulme. 🥈 @rhonagreene.bsky.social 3rd place 🥉

Happy #WorldBookDay 🎈 Thrilled that my new poem #TheHub found a home today in #TheDirigibleBalloon #kidspoetry bank, a webzine, that inspires so much joy, creativity & elevates our #poetrycommunity. Warmest thanks to EIC @northernjim.bsky.social 🙏🏼 Here is THE HUB & am resharing CLASS ASSEMBLY. 💛

For #fragmentsfriday ‘The Architect of Genocide Responds’. Picture of Rafah, Gaza. Dresden, Germany, was one of the most heavily bombed cities in WWII. #war #ceasefire #genocide

Post your startling #poem tomorrow on #fragmentsfriday - we hope to boost and comment on all contributions. Make your micropoem impactful. No blandness. 18 words or less!

It is with great honour I can name the @forwardprizes.bsky.social nominees from The Book Bag: Poetic Voices. Congratulations 👏 @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social