‘Quite simply beautiful’ (Rachel Deering) Sarah Connor’s poetry collection ‘The Poet Spells Her Name’ ❤️‍🔥 @racheldeering.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...

Check out Regine Ebner’s #poetry collection on Amazon in print and kindle! #poetry #americanpoetry #poet #tucson

CJ Wagstaff on Polly Oliver‘s ‘Edges of Our Days’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... #books #poetry @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social @cjwagstaff.bsky.social

For Twitter’s #TopTweetTuesday ‘Musecraft’ - on the theme of ‘elements’ #poetrylovers😍❤️❤️ #poetry #writing #poetryprompt

No usual #fragmentsfriday for the next three Fridays. Why not use this break to post summer / holiday pics and boost others’ work, review and rate others. What better opportunity? Back on Friday 7th August! If you’d like to tip… ko-fi.com/matthewmcsmi... #poetry #writing

If you enjoy Black Bough content, #TopTweetTuesday #fragmentsfriday and the Silver Branch you are most welcome to send a hearty tip! 💵 This pays for website, zoom subscriptions, coffee, poetic stamina pills and morale! ko-fi.com/matthewmcsmi...

A new poem about being a townie, not a surfie. 🏄‍♂️ #smallpoemsunday #poet #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

Black Bough author Polly Oliver in her element in Gower. Check out Polly’s book on Amazon. @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... #poetry #Gower #poet #poetic #Mumbles

Another Sunday #poem - on a roll today.

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Come and join us for a poetry shindig on Saturday 8th August at Harry's Bar, Mumbles, Swansea, midday! Official launch of Polly Oliver's #poetry collection 'Edges of Our Days'. @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social #poetsofbluesky #poet #amreading #books #launch #mumbles

Let me take you to the Lliw Valley reservoir on a boiling hot day. A pad and pen on me. ‘Reservoir Pastoral’ #smallpoemsunday #poetry #poem #amwriting #instapoetry 💦 🌊 ☀️ 🪰 🐟 🐑 🦢 🐦

🙏 @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

One of the high points for me in #poetry! @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social takes brilliant care of its poets. 🥰

Looking back - @helenlaycock.bsky.social Helen Laycock’s #SilverBranch series feature www.blackboughpoetry.com/helen-laycoc...

Looking back @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. Oormila is reading in Oxford at the moment! www.blackboughpoetry.com/oormila-vija...

Looking back @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature - Jakky Bankong-Obi. www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...

Looking back @victoriaspires.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature www.blackboughpoetry.com/about-1

Check out a series of compelling, strange poems by Cardiff creative @vespertine4.bsky.social David Hanlon 👇 🖊️ 💎 www.blackboughpoetry.com/david-hanlon...

‘A lively and endearingly-charming book’ - @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social reviews the book of the month for Black Bough. Chris Campbell’s ‘Why I Wear My Past to Work’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

Thank you, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social! I'm honoured to have been chosen for first place this week 🙏

If you enjoy Black Bough content, #TopTweetTuesday #fragmentsfriday and the Silver Branch you are most welcome to send a hearty tip! 💵 This pays for website, zoom subscriptions, coffee, poetic stamina pills and morale! ko-fi.com/matthewmcsmi...

Poets - want to get focused and mark your mark? Sign up for our three hr workshop on Sunday 9th August. With rave reviews for this, don’t miss it! Led by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🔗 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y... #writing #poetsofbluesky #workshops #poets #poetry

‘A beautiful, windswept collection’ 🌊 ⛰️ Lauren Thomas on Polly Oliver’s ‘Edges of Our Days’ @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver...

Our #fragmentsfriday winners are shared on Insta Threads Twitter Facebook Bluesky And it costs nothin’ #writing #writingtips #poetry #writing

Our winner this week @vespertine4.bsky.social 🏆 🔥 🥇 #fragmentsfriday #poetry #writing #poetryprompt

Joint 2nd place 🥈 @literaryvegan.bsky.social and Dorian Nightingale. #fragmentsfriday #poetry #writing #poetryprompt

3rd place 🥉 #fragmentsfriday Eileen Carney Hulme #poetry #writing #poetryprompt

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Here’s my micropoem for #fragmentsfriday Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the prompt. #micropoem #micropoetry #micropoesia

For #PoemsAbout #UndertheSkin @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk #vss365 #beastly #fragmentsfriday #micropoem @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #Oulens #micropoetry #blueskypoetry

Semi racquet swept leisurely back agony of anticipation 100 cameras rise adoration at the zipping dayglo globe For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity #wimbledon

This week's #fragmentsfriday is inspired by Koberidze's film Dry Leaf – the idea of the self that never returns unchanged. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

A Note to Self Wisdom does not drift upon the wind. It grows like a well-watered flower, until its rough edges are gently smoothed. @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social #fragmentsfriday #poetry

@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for #FragmentsFriday special thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting&all the wonderful poets participating. #WritingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #MicroPoem

Extinction for this week’s #FragmentsFriday. Thank you to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for keeping the community. #Poetry #Drafting #Fragments

In my mind, I do often return to our trip to Berlin, and especially visiting Sachsenhausen concentration camp. What else could I do but write a #FragmentsFriday about it, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social?

Hullo @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for this civic service. #fragmentsfriday #poetry

Hello @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social👋 Here's my #micropoem for #fragmentsfriday

Hi all #FragmentsFriday poets. Hi & SPECIAL THANKS 🙏 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Happy to share my #micropoem: Accomplished Accomplices THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

A poem from transition day last week for #fragmentsfriday It was a new word for me! Thanks @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social have a wonderful day. #micropoetry #transition #SEMH #poetry

Morning all. Here's a contribution from the coast for #fragmentsfriday. A big thank you to the omnipresent @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social As ever, can't wait to read all the wonderful work.

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#Poets - want to get focused and mark your mark? Sign up for our three hr workshop on Sunday 9th August. With rave reviews for this, don’t miss it! Led by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y... #workshops #poetry #poets #craft

‘we forget we are reading print’ - Helen Laycock @helenlaycock.bsky.social on Polly Oliver’s ‘Edges of Our Days’ @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social Book - www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... #poetry #book #gower #poetry #writing

Super thrilled and honoured to be featured as @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social's Silver Branch selection for July. Grateful to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the opportunity and to be included among such an inspiring community of poets. Read the feature here: www.blackboughpoetry.com/david-hanlon...

#kiss #smallpoemsunday #micropoem #lovers #poetry

Highly recommended. If you love poetry then this needs to be in your collection!

‘I walk indigo corridors of cathedral hush, ribcaged in pipe-organ breath, a labyrinth vibrating with scorched lace veils’ @vespertine4.bsky.social - July #SilverBranch feature www.blackboughpoetry.com/david-hanlon... #poetry #writing #toriamos

‘Rachel Deering writes with scalpel-sharp precision, penning one of the finest poetry collections I’ve read in a long time’ ( @brionycollins.bsky.social ) @racheldeering.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering #poetry #nature

@eleanorholmes.bsky.social on Polly Oliver’s - ‘Edges of Our Days’ #poetry #poetrylovers #gower #coast #beach www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver... @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social