Guess who I bumped into at The Poetry Pharmacy in Oxford Street! What an amazing place of seductive aromas, enticing poetry books and warm hospitality. Lovely to sign books together and read poems. 😊Thank you @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Thank you for organising it! 😊

Great if you can join us!

Announcing an evening of #poetry with @csmithpoet.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh - sharing moving, honest poems of family, parenting, care, love, and life's uncertainties. At Chorleywood Library, Tue 9th December, 7pm Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop chilternbookshops.co.uk/event/an-eve...

⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now. Plus FREE UK postage across the shop. Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

So looking forward to reading with my fellow poets @troycabida.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social

Join us for our next online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest poet @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Thursday 13th November at 7pm. 📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...

Always a delight to see a 5 ⭐review. This one is for the 'profoundly moving' BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social Tempted?... Buy your copy here: ninearchespress.com/publications...

Sharing a stunning poem from BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social 'A beautiful collection. Smith’s precise, unsentimental language evokes the different stages of losing a parent, all the while reminding us that heartbreak is a measure of love.'– Kamila Shamsie ninearchespress.com/publications...

Beautiful. I can feel myself there. X

Join us for our next online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest poet @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Thursday 13th November at 7pm. 📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...

I am so delighted you are coming Sari. We read together at The Magma launch in the summer. I loved your poem then and can’t wait to read a collection by you. See you soon! 😊

Here's a stunning #poem from freshly published BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social 'So much love, care, grief, and dignity is presented in this collection.' – Hitomi Grace Utsugi ninearchespress.com/publications...

Our next online launch features @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Join us Thursday 13th November, 7pm 📹 Recording sent to all ticket-holders in case you can't join live. 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...

Publication day for BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social A remarkable, meditative journal of caring for ageing parents, composed throughout with striking clarity of image and compassionate observation. A beautiful, finely resonant book. Congratulations Caroline 💚 ninearchespress.com/publications...

Thank you to Bernard O'Donoghue for his words about BYCATCH, out this week from @csmithpoet.bsky.social ⬇️ A compassionate, poetic chronicle of care and dementia, family, love and loss. Order your copy now: ninearchespress.com/publications...

Terrible train journey but worth it! Wonderful Festival! 💐 @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Thank you Kamila Shamsie for these heartfelt words describing BYCATCH, the upcoming 'beautiful' #poetry collection by @csmithpoet.bsky.social Order your copy now: ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Bycat...

Happy National Poetry Day! ❤️ A poem from ‘Bycatch’ my new collection out next Thursday with @ninearchespress.bsky.social #nationalpoetryday #nationalpoetryday2025

I have a poem in the Canadian journal @arcpoetry.bsky.social… ‘This volume gathers voices that echo across time and space - some whispering, some roaring, some weeping, all resonant.’ .. ‘Ocean World’ will also be in my new collection Bycatch. Out on 9th Oct! with @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Thanks Sari for that lovely comment. I’d love you to come to the launch if you are in the UK on 16th October. ☺️

On Alzheimer’s Day My poem ‘Forest Canopy’ from my new collection, ‘Bycatch’ out on October 9th with @ninearchespress.bsky.social ‘Bycatch’ charts the process of aging, dementia and the loss of language #alzheimersday #alzheimersawareness

Thank you 😊

Thrilled if you can join us for my first Reading from BYCATCH. Delighted to be sharing the evening with poet Erica Hesketh. Thank you Brent Libraries for making possible this free community event. Hope to see you there! 😊

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of BYCATCH at Wembley Library, alongside poet Erica Hesketh. Their books are beautifully moving explorations into the beginning and end of life, parenting & ageing, sadness & joy. Thursday 16th October 6.30pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

Sharing a wonderful poem and blog from @csmithpoet.bsky.social as she discusses 'In Decline'. Here dementia reveals itself, urban images are juxtaposed with 'misplaced' language, prompting questions about the notion of personhood. ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c... Taken from Bycatch.

Looking forward to my copy dropping through the letterbox! Many congratulations 👏

Sharing a wonderful poem and blog from @csmithpoet.bsky.social as she discusses 'In Decline'. Here dementia reveals itself, urban images are juxtaposed with 'misplaced' language, prompting questions about the notion of personhood. ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c... Taken from Bycatch.

That’s very kind of you Julian ☺️

Thanks sari ☺️

My poem Chrism that won 2nd prize in Indigo Spring Poetry Competition! Now published in Reach Poetry. Thank you judge @vickygwriter.bsky.social & @indigodreamspub.bsky.social It is just one of the poems in my new collection Bycatch forthcoming in October with @ninearchespress.bsky.social

A beautiful poem like this one by Malene Engelund will linger with me for days. Another great edition of @poetrylondon.bsky.social

My new book, ‘Bycatch’ is out in October. But you can pre-order it now with free postage! 😊

Publication day for In the Hollow of the Wave by Nina Mingya Powles. A beautiful book of #poetry and collage, weaving threads and textures of stories and memories, full of creation and vivid colour - inviting and exciting. Congratulations Nina🩷 ninearchespress.com/publications...

Ha! Thank you Lucy. I’ll never forget that month - which enabled me to finish this book! 😊

Publication Day feels all the closer! Very excited to reveal the cover of my new collection, ‘Bycatch’ 🎉

Thank you so much Sari. I hope you’ll come to the launch! X

I was there too. Agree - it was incredible 👏👏

Thank you! It was a fantastic evening - chatted to so many interesting people.

It was a fantastic evening! Loved the chance to read my poem and enjoyed every single poem that poets read. Such a great turn out. Thank you @magmapoetry.bsky.social for organising this 👏💐

I’ll need a poetry suitcase this summer holiday! @ninearchespress.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

Very pleased to have a poem in Magma 92.😊So many great angles on the theme! @ninearchespress.bsky.social

My love poem in The Passionfruit Review ❤️@passionfruitlit.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

The wonderful Tree Bumble Bee - bombus hypnorum enjoying some lavender in the sun ❤️

My first visit to Ushuaia Ibiza ! Getting a shout out from my DJ son @cameronjackmusic ❤️ @ushuaiainfo.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

Beautiful. Thanks for flagging - I’ll get the collection. 👍

Congratulations, such a beautiful poem !

Absolutely thrilled to win 2nd prize in the Indigo Dreams Poetry Prize for my poem ‘Chrism’. Congratulations to winner @poetbex.bsky.social & thank you so much @vickygwriter.bsky.social for your lovely comments about my poem.😊 @ninearches.bsky.social

Delighted to win second prize in the EHP Barnard Spring Poetry Prize for my poem ‘Sketch’ forthcoming in my new collection ‘Bycatch’ with @ninearchespress.bsky.social Thank you Tom Neill for choosing my poem and for your kind comments 😊

A lovely day in Kew Gardens and spotted this little family of ‘Meerkat’ tree roots 💁‍♀️