Black Bough Poetry
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith
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SHARE AWAY!!! Announcing a new project - a platform each Friday.
#FRAGMENTSFRIDAY
’ - 18 words or less - a startling, inventive poem. Tag in
#fragmentsfriday
and
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
& share one startling fragment of your own poetry. No A.I. generated poetry!
19 days ago
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
about 13 hours ago
New
#poem
‘Life as a shuttling bubble-dome’
#poetry
#life
#breath
#breathing
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Our third event coming this Friday on Bluesky, Twitter and Insta -
#fragmentsfriday
Make it startling, inventive, impactful. 18 words max! No AI
#poems
- your own work.
about 16 hours ago
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Tremendous week on TTT inspired by the writing of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Next week, post a video of you reading a new poem of yours, 60 words max and include a text version. No text version without the video clip. Imagistic, metaphorical, no AI. No tedious intros!
1 day ago
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
2 days ago
For
#promptcombo
and theme
#rupture
a car tyre blown. Thank you
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
2 days ago
I do poetic impressions and here, for your delectation, is my evocation of the great British poet,
#TedHughes
🦊 ❄️ On the eve of our Ted and
#SylviaPlath
themed TopTweetTuesday on Twitter ‘The Thought-Fox’. Give it a share, if you will.
#poetry
#spokenword
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Our joint winners after much deliberation of this week’s
#fragmentsfriday
following
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
last week 🔥 Jide Badmus
@jidebadmus.bsky.social
🇳🇬 Julian Cason
@hool415.bsky.social
🏴
#poetry
#writingcommunity
#poet
#writing
#poetic
#writingprompt
4 days ago
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Hosting the
#TedHughes
inspired poems on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter nxt week is
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
‘I’m not looking for cribbed, derivate poems of Hughes. I am looking for gritty, tactile, sensory poems focused on spirit of place and the minutiae of flora and fauna. Above all, intensity!’
5 days ago
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Hosting the
#SylviaPlath
inspired poems on next week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter is meteoric talent
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
‘Rather than word-swap with Plath’s imagery, get to the heart of emotion/mood which drives your piece and trust your unique voice and language.’ 👆 👆 👆
5 days ago
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Very few bland micros today on
#fragmentsfriday
Most poems startling and loaded! Impressive work - well done for not exceeding 18 words.
5 days ago
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Black Bough Poetry
Todd Dillard
5 days ago
one of the hardest things about being a poet is knowing when something--an image, a phrase, etc.--is good, but it still hasn't earned its spot in a poem
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Black Bough Poetry
Frangipane✨
5 days ago
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#FragmentsFriday
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Black Bough Poetry
Rother Writes
5 days ago
Thank you so much for this Black Bough 'Silver Branch' honour
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
. From a standing start in early 2021, I feel comfortable at last in being called a poet. You can also read my 'Glamour' Pushcart Prize nomination here. I must be doing something good. 🔥😍💥
#PoetsOnBluesky
add a skeleton here at some point
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Black Bough Poetry
Andy Perrin
5 days ago
A new
#MicroPoem
for
#FragmentsFriday
! Thanks to
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
with
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Have a great Friday everyone!
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Black Bough Poetry
50_Shades_Of_Pedro_Pascal
5 days ago
#fragmentsfriday
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
My shadow learned to bite before I did. It still growls when the light gets close.
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Black Bough Poetry
Ronita Chattopadhyay
5 days ago
#FridayFragments
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Exploitation Has a colour and sometimes not. Whoever does it does it because they know they can.
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Black Bough Poetry
Lesley Curwen
5 days ago
For
#fragmentsfriday
and
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
:
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Black Bough Poetry
5 days ago
Simple Addition Eighteen words Sixteen now Slipping away We decay To love Be loved Nothing more Sixteen words Eighteen now K.D (2026)
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Black Bough Poetry
j r
5 days ago
My contribution to
#fragmentsfriday
for
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#haiku
#senryu
#poetry
#micropoetry
guy who found my phone called mom, dad’s old numbers rank strangers, everyone
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Black Bough Poetry
Pax Morrigan
5 days ago
It's not the poems, it's the other goings-on.
#fragmentsfriday
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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Black Bough Poetry
Sarah O
5 days ago
Aerial Steel heron perching on pantiles in suburban squalls oscillates, fishing signals, dips towards Emley Moor Mast.
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#FragmentFriday
Bit of a local one.
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Black Bough Poetry
Heavy Cloud
5 days ago
For
#fragmentsfriday
my micro poem. Thank you
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
and
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
. 𝐅𝐨𝐥𝐝 Folding into where sinew holds ache. Like paper, I’m fated to remember every fold. Every fold doubles weight.
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Black Bough Poetry
Anna Chorlton
5 days ago
For
#fragmentsfriday
and
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
my lunch break poem
#poetry
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Black Bough Poetry
Matt Gilbert
6 days ago
Hello
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Here’s one for
#fragmentsfriday
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Black Bough Poetry
Ju (Julian)
6 days ago
Hullo
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
and to
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
for the epic
#fragmentsfriday
#poetry
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Black Bough Poetry
Francis H Powell writer and poet
6 days ago
Flies hovering a pig on a spit summer heat on edge distant music echoing strangeness gathering nightfall
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
#fragmentsfriday
#poetry
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Black Bough Poetry
Rother Writes
6 days ago
Hmm...#FragmentsFriday...18 words, sometimes as difficult to craft as those longer poems. Imagist too, that's the
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
USP. I have an earworm still echoing from last Sunday, a Latin anthem that hasn't quite faded, hence the title
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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Black Bough Poetry
Ella B. Winters
6 days ago
Another Friday, another tiny poem.
#FragmentsFriday
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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Black Bough Poetry
Rob McKain
6 days ago
With thanks and enormous gratitude to my Welsh hosts
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
and
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
for the opportunity of a wee wind up in advance of tomorrow's rugby in
#fragmentfriday
.
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Black Bough Poetry
C. Oulens
6 days ago
For
#fragmentsfriday
a
#micropoem
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
#haiku
#senryu
#micropoetry
#Oulens
#blueskypoetry
#poetrycommunity
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
6 days ago
For
#fragmentsfriday
a
#micropoem
about lack.
#poetry
#desire
#touch
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Tomorrow!
#fragmentsfriday
on Insta, Bluesky and Twitter. Share your one poem on all three platforms if you like.
#poetry
#writing
#writingprompts
#poetrycommunity
6 days ago
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
7 days ago
‘We are in the Presence of Great Evil’ Content warning - genocide, organ harvesting, collective trauma 🩸
#promptcombo
#AChangeofUse
@thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
#Gaza
#ceasefire
#peace
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
9 days ago
Right, as you know, I’m obsessed with the
#poet
RS Thomas. For this week’s theme on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter ‘Great poets’, here’s ‘I had a Vision of R.S. Thomas’. ‘Bastard rain!’ Indeed. 🌧️ 🏴 Let’s get this week going.
#RSThomas
#Welshpoetry
#writing
#God
#seascape
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
9 days ago
Coffee with pot pourri.
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
8 days ago
Published by
@thesepagessing.bsky.social
‘A Canvas of Dimming Light’ based on
#KyffinWilliams
‘Shepherd and Sheepdogs’ The shepherd is not happy with the artist!
#Wales
#poetry
#art
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This Friday, the multi-platform event
#fragmentsfriday
- post your own
#micropoem
of 18 words or less. No AI. Just your own genius. Fridays only.
#poetry
#poetic
8 days ago
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‘After the ice age, after the fire’ IanRichardson from ‘Deep Time 1’ our first poetic anthology inspired by Robert Macfarlane’s ‘Underland’.
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/deep-time-pr...
#poetry
#anthropocene
#deeptime
8 days ago
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‘Listen to a sough of wind a caress of dark imaginings’ Dai Fry from ‘Under Photon Crowns’, our first author chapbook. ❤️🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/under-photon...
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Next week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter, we invite one poem per poet inspired by the work of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Make it your own angle in your own poetic voice. No AI. Imagistic, metaphorical work. 100 words max. Make it your own. Avoid derivateness.
#TedHughes
#SylviaPlath
8 days ago
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'They invite me to rook and rail with them' 🐦⬛ Our
#SilverBranch
series feature for February 2026 - is Northern writer Glenn Barker
@rotherwrites.bsky.social
A pleasure to platform this wordsmith with his often intense, gothic work. Check out the poems!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/glenn-barker...
8 days ago
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
9 days ago
New poem alert 🚨 Some fresh plastic and its sensory hit as winter changes to spring.
#spring
#winter
#poetrycommunity
#poetrylovers
#books
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This Friday, post a poem of 18 words or less, tagging in
#fragmentsfriday
#poem
#writingprompt
#writers
#poet
10 days ago
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Our poem of last week on new
#poetry
platform
#fragmentsfriday
🥂 ‘gazing across tidal ghostlace’
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
#moon
#tide
#love
10 days ago
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'this is poetry as bright and fleeting as embers. And like embers, it flares with beauty and warning' Victoria Spires reviews Louise Longson's 'The How in the World' - Hedgehog Poetry'.
@victoriaspires.bsky.social
@louisepoetical.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
#poetry
10 days ago
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
11 days ago
‘Sunday A.M’ and staring at the relentless rain. 🌧️ For
#smallpoemsunday
, and host
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social
who has a new book out this year.
#sunday
#sundaymorning
#dogs
#rain
#poem
#poetry
#sundaymorning
#poetry
#poet
#poetic
#writing
#writingcommunity
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
13 days ago
‘Roll up, Roll up, another Fascist is back in Town’ written at
@paulwritespoems.bsky.social
workshop this evening.
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Black Bough Poetry
Matthew M C Smith
12 days ago
For
#valentinesday
and
#fragmentsfriday
a night micro 🌹 😙
#poetry
#micro
#touch
#kiss
#micropoem
#poet
#poetry
#Valentine2026
#ValentinesDay2026
#poetsofbluesky
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Black Bough Poetry
Merril D. Smith
12 days ago
And for
#FragmentsFriday
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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Black Bough Poetry
Lin Hart
12 days ago
Beyond naked, what exists? You undress me yet parts remain hidden, no one must ever see. (Reworked a scrapped start for today's prompts. Kinda fits as a micro eh?)
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#fragmentsfriday
#poemsabout
#undressed
#micropoem
#micropoetry
#poem
#poetry
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