* Please share * 📣 LAUNCH DAY of ‘Edges of Our Days’ by Welsh-Cornish #poet Polly Oliver. @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social 🌊 ⛰️ 🔥 ☀️ ❄️ 🖊️ 💫 💎 👇 👇 👇 www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... #poetry #Gower

This #FragmentFriday comes to you courtesy of my middle-aged obsession with birds. Did you know that pigeons are renowned as terrible nest builders? But what if there is wisdom to be found in their nature... With thanks, as always, to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

New poem published by the Hyacinth Review. Read it here: hyacinthreview.org/ella-b-winte...

Come along! Still a few free tickets available. Thursday 2nd July at the Poetry Cafe.

I love the weekly practice that #FragmentsFriday has become - a place to keep honing in your imagist focus. Thanks @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to the utterly brilliant @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social!! Can't wait to read this beauty 🤍

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

Had a new poem published by the Hyacinth Review last week. You can read it here: hyacinthreview.org/ella-b-winte...

Thrilled to get my hands on an advance copy of Cat Balaq’s new book from @vpresslit.bsky.social. Some collections sing, this one dances. Vital, dark and ultimately life-affirming, it's out 3rd July.

Have been experimenting with iterative poetry. This newest experiment was recently published in Grasshopper Poetry.

Thanks so much @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for a spot on the #FragmentsFriday podium. Glad you enjoyed this micro musing!

In a random little village in Kent there is an unassuming church, and all 12 of its stained glass windows were designed and painted by the illustrious Marc Chagall. Thanks, as always, for this micro space in the shape of #FragmentsFriday, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Delighted to have a poem on the shortlist of this year’s Artemesia Arts Poetry Competition alongside @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @ella-b-winters.bsky.social ❤️ Huge thanks to Malika Booker for judging and Kate from Artemesia Arts for keeping us all in the loop!

This is FANDABBY!!!!

Very happy to be Shortlist buddies with @ella-b-winters.bsky.social & @poetbex.bsky.social & congratulations to Thea and the other winners and commended poets ❤️

Delighted to have made it onto the Artemesia Art 2026 competition shortlist alongside some fabulous poets, including @victoriaspires.bsky.social and @poetbex.bsky.social. Congratulations to Thea Smiley for the win!! And many thanks to Malika Booker for seeing something in my work.

The Madrid Review Issue 8 launches today! My poem Sea Glass Requiem is within & explores themes arising from #migration & #biculturalism. Also, I was thrilled to discover that Chasms my chapbook with @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social is a #RecommendedReads pick! Thank you @madridlitmag.bsky.social 🌊💙🌊

Book now to hear Anna Saunders at our Black Bough openmic next Monday at 7.30pm, on Zoom. Open mic places left. 👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug... @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social #spokenword #poetry #poetryevents

Forthcoming: ‘Edges of our Days’ 🌊 ⛰️ 🖊️ 💎 by Polly Oliver with Black Bough Poetry. #poetry #poetic #writing #books

Sharp and uncomfortable in this week's #FragmentsFriday. Always grateful to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for holding space for this weekly practice.

Wonderful evening at the Book Bag open mic, as always! Thank you, @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and all 🤍

Announcement on results, winners, highly commended, and shortlist for the competition. Thanks to everyone who entered. www.therialto.co.uk/pages/2026/0...

THIS is the poem ypu need to read/hear today 👇👇

Tomorrow night. Tickets still available 🎟️ Join the audience or share your words. See link in OP

The Book Bag Open Mic: Session 5. Wednesday. 7pm. Roughcut Coals or Polished Gems. Share your work in an encouraging and supportive environment. Tickets: shorturl.at/Z7pCn

Grateful to Voicemail Poem for sharing this, and for publishing a voice recording of me reading this poem! Listen to it here: voicemailpoems.org/2026/04/28/w...

@ella-b-winters.bsky.social 🔥

This 👇

Congrats to the 15 poets of wave twenty-six: Alex Smith, Anna Maughan, Caroline Stancer, Clare Best, Deborah Gaudin, Elizabeth Osmond, Frances Klein, Francesca Leader, Jonathon Medeiros, Kate Vanhinsbergh, Lauren Parker, Rachel Burrows, Robin Ince, Victoria Moul and Zain Rishi.

This is rather tremendous

New poem out today in the inaugural issue of Not Quite Right Lit.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to share small poems you wrote or that you love by other poets :) here’s Liz Waldner, a favorite poet I’ve been rediscovering the last few weeks~

Wrote this on my birthday last year. Thought I'd give it an airing for #SmallPoemSunday. Thanks for convening, @tomsnarsky.bsky.social.

Francien Krieg (Dutch, b.1973) "Shared Silence," 2026 Oil on panel 40 x 30 cm #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover #caturday

A small poem in honour of my collection’s first anniversary ❤️ @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

New poem in the inaugural issue of Poetry (in Brief) magazine, curated and edited by the excellent @rachelturney.bsky.social. Grateful to be included! Read it here: www.turneytalks.com/the-magazine...

Something a little gentler for this week's #FragmentsFriday, though maybe not so gentle, after all... With thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the space, as always.

Something a little gentler for this week's #FragmentsFriday, though maybe not so gentle, after all... With thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the space, as always.

Part reflective poem/part rage-rant, published in this anthology from Like a blot from the blue. Honoured to have words alongside @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social @carolynthomas.bsky.social, and many others.

1st place 🥇 on #fragmentsfriday #micropoem #poetry - Ella B Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social

Want to read your poetry in a supportive environment? 2poems / upto 5 mins to share your roughcut coals or polished gems. The Book Bag Open Mics… www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-book-b...

What an honour to make it to the top of the podium in this week's #FragmentsFriday, and among such brilliant pieces!! Thank you so much, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

I've been turning this idea in my mind for a while, and finally decided to commit it to the page for this week's #FragmentsFriday. I think the micro form is an interesting way to think about war. Thanks, as always, to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for holding space.

#fragmentsfriday tomorrow #poetry #poetryprompt #writingprompts

I've been turning this idea in my mind for a while, and finally decided to commit it to the page for this week's #FragmentsFriday. I think the micro form is an interesting way to think about war. Thanks, as always, to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for holding space.

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

the apocalypse (is it) it is (going to hurt) un(just for a moment)

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

Sharing this one, published the other week by the good folk (person) @plaguecircus.bsky.social 🏡