📣 Want your poetry to appear in our next Christmas and winter anthology? Check out the following information on or call from 28th Jan to the 1st of Feb! 🎅 ❄️ ⛄️ ❄️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/events

Submissions are open. Poetry that remembers. That mourns. That refuses to let go. Read the call carefully. Take your time. Send the work that needs to exist. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs #SpineEdicts #PoetryCommunity #SubmissionWindow #OpenCall #Poetry

Happy New Year! Join us and make 2026 your most creative year yet ✨ New courses include: ✍️ Rewriting History with William Ryan ✍️ Murder is Your Business with Declan Burke ✍️ Beginners' Fiction with Tanya Farrelly ✍️ Story: The Essentials with Gavin McCrea irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

Listen to One Final Storm for 2025 on most podcast platforms including Spotify & Apple. Featuring @mollytwomey.bsky.social Kevin Graham & Zita McGarry & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Happy New Year to you all & May you all Stay Bloody Poetic open.spotify.com/episode/5mG3...

THIS! Wrapping up a year of #poetic #storms that touch every shore they reach. Grateful to be part a #stormer bsky.app/profile/eatt... @eatthestorms.com #poetsofbluesky #poetry #podcast

If you've done the 'Crafting Your Year in Poetry' workshop, this is a refresher bootcamp planning your next 12 months with fresh ideas & tips! Limited places. Book now. Wed Jan 7th, 6.30pm. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bootcamp-c...

Giving you the heads up. We will have a submis*ions window for the next Christmas - Winter anthology from Wed 28th Jan to Sun 1st Feb. Evocative, atmospheric, distinctive, imagistic poems please. No A.I. no cribbing, your work ☝️ Submission info in the next week!

Happy New Year to my guiding stars My one true North Star of Dublin Damien Donnelly @eatthestorms.com for steering me so graciously through my Storms Journal Odyssey & my Welsh Seren @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for my perch on the #SilverBranch @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social You lit up my year🤩 I❤️U🥂

✨🔔🥂💛🥂🔔✨ Wishing all my beautiful, kind, wonderful, sparkling friends here the best & happiest of years ahead. Thank you for lighting up my year with your dazzling brilliance🤩 I love you all. Shine on! ✨🔔🥂💛🥂🔔✨ #HappNewYear2026 #HappyNewYear #NewYearsEve

Tune in on New Year’s Eve from 5pm on most podcast platforms for One Last Storm for 2025 Guests include @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Kevin Graham & @mollytwomey.bsky.social

As we countdown to 2026, a look back to some of the poetic gems of 2025 💎💙 eatthestorms.com/2025/12/31/a...

If you’ve signed up for this workshop today, check your inbox/ junkmail for instructions! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...

Date sorted for New Year’s Eve!⚡️🍾 🥂⚡️

*If the link above isn't showing the full video, here it is on YouTube. With thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for including my poem this year. To order the 2025 anthology: blackboughpoetry.com/news 💙❄️

A joy to be part of this year's anthology @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social 🎄🎄🎄 The tree briefly seen in video's opening is from... last xmas! (Inspiration for my 'Wintersweet' poem in the 2024 anthology. Not quite evergreen. Still lovable) ❄️ Order the 2025 anthology here: blackboughpoetry.com/news 💙❄️

Alice Stainer from our Christmas - winter anthology. @alicestainer.bsky.social 🎶 🙏 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Overjoyed to have a poem in the beloved @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social annual Winter Anthology.

‘this flesh-dress is heavy’ Marie Marchand @mishiepoet.bsky.social with typical eloquence in our Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

‘a whiteburn of snow’ ❄️ ‘a driftwood tree on crumpled paper’ @helenlaycock.bsky.social in our Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

‘You didn’t see me, still under the Christmas lantern’ 🦊 Guinevere Clark in our Christmas-winter anthology. ❄️ 🌙 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Julian Dobson takes to the allotment on Christmas Eve in our Christmas-winter anthology. 🪏 🎄 ❄️ @juliandobson.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Sandra Noel with some festive poetic craft. @sandrajnoel.bsky.social ‘The acer has hairdoed the hedge’ blackboughpoetry.com/news

‘Snow Moon’ by Louise Warren. ‘as you wish yourself well this Christmas Eve’ ❄️ 🍷 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news @louisewarrenpoet.bsky.social

‘Frost Fair’ by Lisa Falshaw ‘Meet me at the Frost Fair…’ ❄️ From the Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Our Christmas and winter anthology. An aesthetic beauty for the whole season. Available in hardback and softback. On Amazon! ❄️ 📖 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Sign up now for ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’, a workshop to get focused as a poet for the next year. 👇 👇 👇 Tuesday 30th December at 5pm, UK time. 🔥 🖊️ ⏰ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...

A loyalty reward only for writers who have bought this year's Black Bough Christmas- Winter anthology. An exclusive submission window for next year's anthology on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. As ever, please read guidance closely! blackboughpoetry.com/events

Our themes for next Tuesday’s TopTweetTuesday. On Twitter. ~ Nostalgia/ wistfulness ~ 80 words max, imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse (no rhyme), no A.I. #poetry

Otd a year ago, my dear friend Sarah Connor passed away. She was the reason I started Sídhe Press and she was and is at the very heart of it. I miss you so much, azizti Sarah. #AlwaysFire #sídhepress

🕊️Remembering dear Sarah Connor today, and thinking of her family and friends on the first anniversary of her sad passing. She is missed, and she is ‘always fire’ in our hearts.🔥 A poem ‘I went to the sea’ by Sarah to bring comfort.🕊️

Scrumptious #Christmascake & beautiful card made by Damien! Thank you🤩😋 @eatthestorms.com

Our afternoon delight for St Stephen’s Day is this sumptious cáca milis, a scrumptious Christmas gift made by the one & only Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com And the gorgeous card is his own beautiful artwork too!😮👨‍🍳 👨‍🎨 Thanks Dami it’s utterly divine and will be wolfed down!🤩 😋🎄🍰 🫖 🩰 ❤️😘

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social takes us on a #Christmas shopping trip - the bustling streets of Swansea - in the 1980s (extract) 🏙️ 🎁 💝 🎄 🎅 Check out our Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social takes us on a #Christmas shopping trip - the bustling streets of Swansea - in the 1980s (extract) 🏙️ 🎁 💝 🎄 🎅 Check out our Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Anne Caldwell takes us to York at Christmas time. 🍺 🚣‍♀️ 🌊 🥶 Check out our Christmas-winter anthology. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Let’s run with @moette.bsky.social through dawn’s magic in our festive anthology. 🧦 🎄 🥕 🥧 ☀️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Truly special to be @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch Christmas feature! Honoured to be showcased on this brilliant platform, in the company of my heros! 🤩 Forever grateful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for shining this beautiful light on my words💗 www.blackboughpoetry.com/christma-new...

Mike Lewis-Beck’s ‘Winter White’ from the Christmas-Winter anthology. ‘robed in white, I creak down’ ❄️ 👼 #poetry #christmas

Loneliness and desertion at Christmas. Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon #poetry #loss #Christmas

'we are corroded from birth like the coast not destined to the constellations – not plough nor star. We formed words fucked words flung words but the language was never ours to comprehend.' iambapoet.com/wave/24-dam...

Merry Christmas to poets and poetry lovers everywhere! As a seasonal gift to you all, @iambapoet.com has a new, simpler web address: iamb.uk It's not yet 'official' across the site – but it works right now. URLs for individual poets' pages may misbehave for a while till everything settles in. 😉🎄

Truly special to be @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #SilverBranch Christmas feature! Honoured to be showcased on this brilliant platform, in the company of my heros! 🤩 Forever grateful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for shining this beautiful light on my words💗 www.blackboughpoetry.com/christma-new...

A @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social anthology is not just for Christmas it’s for all the whole long winter! Order here 👉 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

You can read some more of my Christmas/Wintry writing which I’m so honoured to have featured on @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch ❄️🎄 👇 blackboughpoetry.com/christma-new-y…

✨🕯️✨ Christmas Eve vibes on full blast & feeling so grateful to have 2 poems included @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social’s beautiful annual Christmas & Winter Anthology, a stunning collection celebrating this special time in a sparkling myriad of ways✨🎄✨ Available here 👉 www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

✨🕯️✨ Christmas Eve vibes on full blast & feeling so grateful to have 2 poems included @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social’s beautiful annual Christmas & Winter Anthology, a stunning collection celebrating this special time in a sparkling myriad of ways✨🎄✨ Available here 👉blackboughpoetry.com/news

All the white horses galloping home for Christmas 🌊 🐎 🤍