Happy book anniversary for 'I Am Not Light' to Manchester poet, Louise Machen @louloumach.bsky.social Louise will continue to perform over the summer in the North. A true wordsmith and #spokenword maverick! tinyurl.com/bpab6xhj

@elcurwen.bsky.social - a brilliant addition to our Eliot edition!

Get your tickets for SHORED FRAGMENTS - the launch of our Eliot-inspired anthology on Wed 10th June, 6:30pm. Contributors and audience, book here! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau... #eliot #modernism #tseliot

We're back with an online OPEN MIC on Monday 8th June, 7:30PM + Three poems (5 mins each), per poet. Ideal for the nervous! Time to blow away the cobwebs. Why not make an impression? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug... #poetry #openmic #spokenword

Poets! Are you drifting in your craft and getting nowhere fast? Come to our workshop on Sun 9th Aug to get seriously informed...and serious about what you're doing. Head out with the start of a writing plan. Led by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/signin/?refe... #poetry #poet

Yey!!!! So pleased!!!! Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social’s powerful collection ‘Consolamentum’. Available on Amazon. www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu... #poet #poetry #spain #writer #rural

A poem from Regine Ebner’s collection ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’ #poetry #writing #regineebner www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...

1st place 🥇 Elizabeth Fevyer. #fragmentsfriday #poetry #writing #poet #poetic

2nd place #fragmentsfriday LJ Ireton #poetry #writing #poet

3rd place 🥉 on #fragmentsfriday - Helen Laycock @helenlaycock.bsky.social #poetry #writing

Something a little gentler for this week's #FragmentsFriday, though maybe not so gentle, after all... With thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for the space, as always.

This week’s #fragmentsfriday. When chronic/invisible illness keeps its own accounts. Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

Here's something for #fragmentsfriday that popped into my head the other day @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #poetry

My poem He rises for #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social

Sidelines An iridescent shimmer — a fragmentary summer bubble drifting towards freshly-hewn grass, ready to pop. M.F. Sutherland @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #FragmentsFriday

Musings for #fragmentsfriday on life being waylaid by Covid's cousin.... @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #poetryfragment #musings #reframing #poetrychallenge

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, Cultivation's Off-Cuts (on cultivating personal growth, moving-on from the past) THANKS for sharing your #Poetry, & #PoetryCommunity🙏💚

This for #fragmentsfriday the weekly (18 word max) challenge run by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social #poetry

Martin Kennedy Yates in our Eliot-inspired anthology. @martinkennedyyates.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

From our Eliot-inspired anthology, profound words by Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

‘What is love but the mother of the god gene?’ A poem inspired by #WallaceStevens for TopTweetTuesday on Twitter. #love #muse #touch #lovers #modernism #americanpoetry #poetry

William Carlos Williams #imagism #modernism #poetry #poetic @poetsorg.bsky.social

Doing my bit for the tourist trade.

What’s in store for us this week on #fragmentsfriday? #poet #writing

The Mountain by #ElizabethBishop #poetry #modernism

‘The Snow Man’ by #WallaceStevens ‘One must have a mind of winter To regard the frost and the boughs’ poets.org/poem/snow-man #modernism #poetry

Teo Evefrom ‘Shored Fragments’, our #tseliot inspired anthology www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #poetry #writing #modernism #eliot

The Black Bough book of the month is the latest @poetrywales.bsky.social edition on lyric poetry. ☀️ 📚 🍹 Mentioned: Arthur Sze, Hanan Issa, Menna Elfyn, Abeer Ameer, Laura Wainwright, Imogen Wade Review by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews... #poetry #books

An extract from a poem by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social from ‘Shored Fragments…’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #eliot #modernism #thewasteland

Our third inspiration this week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter is the writer Elizabeth Bishop. #poetry #writing

An inspiration for this week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter is William Carlos Williams. #modernism #poetry

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social on the American poet Elizabeth Bishop. #poetry #writing - an inspiration for this week’s TopTweetTuesday

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social on William Carlos Williams’s work - an inspiration for this week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter.

Wallace Stevens - one of the inspiration for this week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter - abstract, expressionist, evocative, cerebral, philosophical, emotive. #modernism #poetry

Wallace Stevens - one of the inspiration for this week’s @TopTweetTuesday - abstract, expressionist, evocative, cerebral, philosophical, emotive. #modernism #poetry

@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social discusses Wallace Stevens - an inspiration for this week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter.

‘Afonydd’ (Arachne Press) out in the wild in Hay on Wye. @arachnepress.bsky.social

For #smallpoemsunday ‘1.0’ #poetry #writing #micropoem #becoming #craft

Ocean Vuong and @poetrywales.bsky.social haul at Hay on Wye

A snippet from ‘Shored Fragments…’ our anthology responding to Eliot’s The Waste Land, available on Amazon. @richlyevocative.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragments-eliot #poetry #eliot #modernism

What an honour to make it to the top of the podium in this week's #FragmentsFriday, and among such brilliant pieces!! Thank you so much, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

Only seeing this pleasant surprise now, I was off-grid in the mountains today. THANKS🙏 💚 to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social & to all the #FragmentsFriday poets for sharing your poetry 🙏💚 THANKS my 'Poetry Pals', & Congratulations to all my 'Podium Pals' 👏👏👏👏

If you enjoy #fragmentsfriday and TopTweetTuesday please boost us by getting a copy of our latest anthology, ‘Shored Fragments…’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm...

A snippet from ‘Shored Fragments…’ by Regine Ebner from our anthology responding to Eliot’s The Waste Land, available on Amazon. www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #poetry #eliot #modernism

Highly commended on #fragmentsfriday Ryan Hooper #poetry

Joint 2nd 🥈 on #fragmentsfriday #poem - Dorian Nightingale

1st place 🥇 on #fragmentsfriday #micropoem #poetry - Ella B Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social

Joint second on #fragmentsfriday - Fijian Cassidy 🥈 #poem