June

Duloe stone circle in the buttercups. #stonecircle #cornwall

I had a lovely time reading my poems and chatting at Black Cat Books Launceston today as part of my time as Causley Poet in Residence . #poetry #poetrycommunity

For #fragmentsfriday a poem from lakeside in the forest @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #poetry

The perfect place for storytelling with marionette Enys at Benow festival of women writers at Falmouth Art Gallery!

June, July and August are filling up nicely! 😀

Daffodils and primroses in the woodland for #wildflowerhour and @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Gool Peran Lowen! Happy #SaintPiran’sday and #worldbookday #books #cornwall

A day for a sea walk.

For @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday

For #fragmentsfriday and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social my lunch break poem #poetry

All in gold for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social the first celandine reaching for the winter sun, woodland primrose sheltering beneath its leaf and the first daffodils stretching over the snowdrops. #wildflowerhour

The final episode of Season 2 of Spec Fic Radio Theatre features 'The Silver Ball', an #audiodrama based on Cornish folklore by @annachorlton.bsky.social You can listen to all episodes in our anthology here pod.link/1812026298

Delighted The Silver Ball is on Speculative Fiction Radio Theatre !

Splendid display on the Snow Drop Bank from Our Lady of February. Shinning hope for spring . #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Winter branches

Bright green bedded on winter branches . #naturewriting #trees

@annachorlton.bsky.social with a poem from the Christmas-Winter anthology. blackboughpoetry.com/news

Christmas books, I am happily reading through. #booksky

Christmas Robin joined me in the cabin today.

While busy shifting the sands at Seaton, the mermaid lost her purse!

Happy Winter Solstice , I am looking forward to the light, these hedgerows having a canopy of leaves and the butterfly hedges full of life snd wild flowers, #wintersolstice

@annachorlton.bsky.social at our Christmas - Winter anthology launch last Sunday. www.blackboughpoetry.com/news

Cornish Folk Tales of Place in time for Christmas book! DM for a signed dedicated copy £15 book and postage . #book #folklore #myth #cornwall

Enjoying reading the amazing Christmas and Winter poetry anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social which includes my poem The Loop. #poetry #poetrycommunity

Our Christmas & Winter anthology will be available this weekend! Featuring work by @fiddes.bsky.social @jahshabby.bsky.social @vikkicwrites.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social @annachorlton.bsky.social @alayanabeth.bsky.social and more!

Wintry lakeside today, five cormorants gathered by the shore. #naturewriting #birds

Shoutout if you’re up for submitting in the new year for our Christmas & winter anthology! This year’s anthology is out very soon!!! @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

I have just typed up a load of my #TopTweetTuesday poems from my Twitter feed and I have over forty poems almost enough for a collection ! Huge thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and all the Top Tweet poets. #poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

A winter poem for @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and #toptweettuesday #poetry #poetrycommunity

I was welcomed by the King chough on entering the castle at Tintagel this afternoon, a truly magical moment! #folklore #KingArthur #Cornwall

An amazing week for #fingi with parasol mushrooms in the fields and Fly Agaric in the woods beneath the beech. #WildFingiHour #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Parasol Mushrooms in the fields . We found a den of huge mushrooms under the trees in the fields. #fungifriday #fungi

Beside the river beneath the beech fly agaric where piskeys play! #naturewriting #fungi #magic

Really enjoyed Lowender’s heritage day at Redruth with Mazed Tales who were storytelling with puppets and piskies.

Fly Agaric in the woods / magic about!

Gorgeous writing walk on the moors this morning I love autumn. #naturewriting #cornwall

Sharing my poem Playtime for the theme of #play for #nationalpoetryday and @poetrydayuk.bsky.social this poem was originally published by @icefloepress.bsky.social . #poetry

Campion #wildflowerhour

Conversation between heron and a cormorant.

Signed copy of ‘Falling For a Dolphin’ by Heathcote Williams found in my local bookshop today . I have just finished reading ‘Whale Nation’ and loved it an incredibly moving poem for the ocean’s noble giants. #poetry #booksky #naturewriting

Little lizard in the herb garden . #nature #garden

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Robin redbreast singing to me at lunch break. Wish I’d been quick enough to record it.

Hatted by Honeysuckle!

I had a lovely time reading my poems in the drawing room at Port Eliot amongst the portraits and flowers and history. #poetry #poetrycommunity #porteliot #cornwall #folklore #cornishfolktalesofplace

Spider webbing amongst the marjoram.

Painted Lady butterfly on the magical heather strewn Tregoss Moor, a Piskey realm. So good to be out story adventuring again! #nature #cornwall #folklore

I went in search of the Dragon of Porthtowan and I found her! #naturewriting #cornishfolktalesofplacs

Thank you so much Nic Wilson @nicwilson.bsky.social for sending me a copy of Land Beneath the Waves I am really looking forward to reading it! #naturewriting #booksky