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"Fabulous poetry goal setting" @jenferoze.bsky.social "an utterly inspirational workshop" @helenlaycock.bsky.social Book 'Crafting your Year in Poetry: your 12 mth writing plan' - NEXT Sunday 4th May, 6:30-9:00pm, UK time. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...

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'This is a pamphlet very much informed by contemporary poetry but has its own soul, not hanging off anyone’s tray of canapes.' A review by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social of @jenferoze.bsky.social #bookofthemonth www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

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I’m thrilled to have received Regine Ebner’s debut poetry collection, Mountains that See in the Dark, published by Black Bough Poetry I’ve been a fan of Regine’s and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for a long time and this collection is an absolute stunner! www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...

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'snow comes to the desert, / surprising even the saddest bird' ❄️🏜️ Regine Ebner’s 'White Dusting on Olive Trees', from the luminescent 'Mountains that See in the Dark' (print and kindle e-book). www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner... #poetry #writing #writingcommunity

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Editing Louise Machen’s @louloumach.bsky.social’s forthcoming incendiary poetry collection ‘I am not light’. 🔥 🔥 🔥 ‘It confronts a dark backdrop through crafted, sensuous imagery, daring the reader to ‘Wade in, take the risk’’ (John McCullough)

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‘I can scaffold a smile about your grace’ For Shakespeare day, a poem loosely inspired by Sonnet 29. ~ ‘When I’m Alone’

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Very excited to announce that I’m going to be guest-editing a themed anthology for the brilliant @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - more details will be released early next year…

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This project is going to be massive, which is why contributing editor @catherineredford.bsky.social has 2025 to prepare. A real acquisition for the Bough with Catherine’s academic and creative credentials.

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Cardiff creative and spoken word award winner Dai Woolridge hosted the TopTweetTuesday event on Twitter celebrating #earthday today and what a host he was. Generous, super boosting and super perceptive about those deep poems! Hero! 🌎

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It’s a double bill TopTweetTuesday on Twitter week - an Easter treat! Tomorrow, a Shakespeare-inspired day. Check the strict guidelines. No thees, thous, thines - contemporary language! Prioritise inventive use of imagery above everything, 99 words max. @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social hosting!

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For #EarthDay please enjoy 'Welcome to the Festival of Climate, please queue for your tickets'. This writing is available on an expensive Tote bag, fairtrade tie or an engraved decanter, for the more discerning. Some people will make a lot of money from anything! #ClimateCrisis #climateemergency

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Host/ MC Dai Woolridge is in the house, waiting for TopTweetTuesday on Twitter It’s #EarthDay 🌍 tomorrow - Tuesday 22nd April - for TTT we invite you to post one original, inventive, metaphorical, imagistic poem, 100 words max! Free verse please. No cliches. Make it poetic. 🖊️

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A poem inspired by poet-priest #RSThomas 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 originally published by The Fig Tree press, editor Tim Fellows @timfellows.bsky.social figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tr... #EasterSunday #Easter #Christianity #poetry

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‘Abyss’ From ‘The Keeper of Aeons’ @brokenspinearts.bsky.social

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Drifting in your poetry and struggling to get anywhere or focus? Book 'Crafting your Year in Poetry: your 12 mth writing plan' - Sunday 4th May, 6:30-9:00pm, UK time on Zoom. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...

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🧵 Lovely poetry folks: it's time for me to step gingerly onto the merry-go-round of self promotion and announce that my debut pamphlet Soi-même is available now for pre-order from the wonderful @salopress.bsky.social Thank you so much to Salo for taking this on ❤️❤️ salopress.com/store/soi-meme/

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I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community. We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect? Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.

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We have a special event next week on Twitter - Wednesday 23rd April, one day after our usual sharing Announcing #Shakespeare day 🎭 Post your own original, free verse, metaphorical, inventive, imagistic poem inspired by Shakespeare - your own alternate take. 99 words max!

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It’s #EarthDay next Tuesday 22nd April ‘25. For TopTweetTuesday on Twitter we invite you to post one original, inventive, metaphorical, imagistic poem, 100 words max! Make it poetic. 🖊️ 💎

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Bloody delighted with this review from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Thank you! To be placed on the poetry smorgasbord ‘somewhere between @carolinebirduk.bsky.social, Liz Berry and the smoked salmon’ is an epithet I want printed on a t shirt!

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Great to test reviewer-brain on this prize winning pamphlet @poetrybusiness.bsky.social @jenferoze.bsky.social

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🎉 BLACK BOUGH BOOK OF THE MONTH 🍾 'Jen Feroze knows how to nail a quirky description and uses this technique quite sparingly to maximise the effect when it is deployed.' @jenferoze.bsky.social’s 'A Dress with Deep Pockets' @poetrybusiness.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...

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‘It was a still-earth day’ ☀️ ‘Whistling inside the dragon crucible’ 🐉 🔥 Regine Ebner’s ‘Graveyards and Treeless Hills’ from Mountains that See in the Dark’, available in kindle and print. www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...

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The perfect coffee mate. Inspiration text - go into the wild and the blistering heat of the Sonoran desert, Arizona, with Regine Ebner 🔥 🔥 🔥 www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...

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Today is a day of protest on Twitter’s TopTweetTuesday. Imagistic, metaphorical work, as usual. 120 words max

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Join TopTweetTuesday on Twitter for a day of protest at war, human rights issues, rising fascism and incitement to all forms of hatred.

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Content warning: modern warfare, war crimes, massacres, genocide, organ harvesting, collective trauma, grief & more. 🩸 ‘There is no Heaven on this Earth’ posted for the ‘protest’ theme of TopTweetTuesday on Twitter

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My novel is focused on this story - a retelling, of sorts, with significant changes and a focus on one character, in particular. I hope it will be an emotional experience for readers. #homer #theodyssey #amreading

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I should've said the also wonderful @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social ! Wonderful.

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Our challenge this week on Twitter only - guest hosted by @mishiepoet.bsky.social - a former laureate!!

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This week’s TopTweetTuesday guest host on Twitter got ready for the role this week by meeting her favorite poet Li-Young Lee at Get Lit! In Spokane. Marie Marchand at the helm! @mishiepoet.bsky.social

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Coastal immersion poetics with @gillbarr.bsky.social

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Irish Gaelic magic and anti-Pound imagism horror from @rhonagreene.bsky.social

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"Fabulous poetry goal setting" @jenferoze.bsky.social "an utterly inspirational workshop" @helenlaycock.bsky.social Book 'Crafting your Year in Poetry: your 12 mth writing plan' - Sunday 4th May, 6:30-9:00pm, UK time. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...

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From goddesses to a failed fruit pastilles prize. Love ya @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

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Brilliant delivery @markantonyowen.com - We’re always no 1 fans!

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Personal, intense poems Catherine! How we like them! And we found you a new friend across the bay! lol!

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The Minerva/ Sulis poem! Make sure you send it you know where @bethosmond.bsky.social

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