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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yipee, I've just found out that Contemplation of Roses has been made Book of the Month for October at the Poetry Kit - wonderful news since apparently the competition was stiff (scroll down below): #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #poetsonbluesky www.poetrykit.org

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Paul @paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let’s share a warm welcome for the latest featured poet in the Poetic Voice series, the excellent @annestgwilym.bsky.social

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns." George Eliot 🖼️ Eliot Hodgkin #autumn #october #botanicalart

A range of fruit, vegetables, flowers, leaves and mushrooms. Botanical art by Eliot Hodgkin, 1950.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The work of Rathika Ramasamy, India's first internationally celebrated female wildlife photographer #womensart

Photograph of an owl peeping out from a hole in a tree trunk

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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

#Poetry #Painting #AutumnTrees Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away; Lengthen night and shorten day; Every leaf speaks bliss to me Fluttering from the autumn tree. - Emily Brontë 🎨 Maxfield Parish

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm taking a short break from here, I'll be back soon. Image: Decadent young woman. After the dance. By Ramon Casas.

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just a gentle reminder that my poetry book Contemplation of Roses is still available from the link below. Very grateful if you could buy or leave a review. 👇

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Blackberry Gathering by Elizabeth Forbes, c.1912.

Painting of a woman and three children gathering blackberries on a hillside.

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Afternoon plans: reading a new poetry book whilst waiting for the roofers to come and fix my roof. Image: 'Woman Reading in an Interior', by Carl Holsøe.

'Woman Reading in an Interior' by Carl Holsøe. Realistic painting of a woman in period dress reading in an interior. Subdued colours, the face is turned down to the book and not completely visible.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Blackberries Spilling from Tin Cup, Carducius Ream.

Blackberries falling from a tin cup, painting.

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Airborne by Andrew Wyeth, 1996. Tempera painting on panel.

Image of landscape with house in distance and bird's feathers falling from the sky. Tempera painting on panel. Airborne by Andrew Wyeth, 1996.

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Mabon is a modern Pagan festival marking the autumn equinox, when day and night are nearly equal. A celebration of harvest, gratitude and nature’s slow turn towards winter, its modern name was taken from Mabon ap Modron, a figure in medieval Welsh legend. #FolkloreSunday

A nine-image collage celebrating the autumn harvest, with ripe purple plums and sloes, red and green apples, a pear, golden fields of wheat and a pile of orange pumpkins.

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An older poem of mine, from my first book 'Surfacing'. Published by Disability Arts Cymru (DAC) in 2018 in their anthology 'Out of Sight', which was about MH. #poetsofbluesky #poetsonbluesky #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #mentalhealth

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Available from: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A bright splash of autumn flowers for this quiet Sunday. Painting by Eliot Hodgkin. #eliothodgkin #botanicalart #art #stilllife

A vase of bright autumn flowers, leaves and seed heads in blue vase by a window. Realistically painted.

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~ Alison Peace @irishali13.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Poem for Women Wednesday It All Comes Back To Me Now Dr. Maya C. Popa Theirs is a wisdom suspended in feeling: they are always at the beginning/about what love means in the making/Here I am, filled out by happiness I could not otherwise have earned. God forbid I hadn't taken every last wrong turn.

IT ALL COMES BACK TO ME NOW
Dusk, the mountains mauve,
and the samphire trembles between stones,
and the voices of long-dead singers croon through a hotel stereo.
Theirs is a wisdom suspended in feeling: they are always at the beginning
without a watch and no place to be.
To them I say, it's ok to be half right
about what love means in the making of a life. Not a trap, but a clearing.
Here I am, filled out by happiness I could not otherwise have earned.
God forbid I hadn't taken every last wrong turn.
Maya C. Popa

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Blackberries, Albert Durer Lucas

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Dirk Puehl @wunderkammertales.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

"When lofty trees I see barren of leaves, ... Then of thy beauty do I question make, That thou among the wastes of time must go, Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake And die as fast as they see others grow" (Sonnet XII) 🎨 John Atkinson Grimshaw #ShakespeareSunday

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

'...and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognise traps, and a lion to frighten wolves.' -Machiavelli This Saturday marks 610 years since one of the Medici entered the world, #BookWormSat will travel back in time to the Renaissance! 🦁

The Lion of St Mark by Vittore Carpaccio. Painting of a winged lion holding a book open in which there is a Latin phrase.

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Afternoon mood: 'Wet Afternoon. View of the Church of St. Mary, Capel-y-Ffin, Powys'. ~Eric Ravilious #ericravilious #artaboutrain #rainpainting

A man walking on a rainy road to the Church of St. Mary, Capel-y-Ffin, Powys. By artist Eric Ravilious. Muted colours, high hedges with a church and mountains in the background.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Just a wee reminder that poetry fans can buy Annest’s wonderful latest collection below. 👇

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

So that's what's wrong with me! 😉

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Titular poem from my new poetry book Contemplation of Roses, published by Lapwing Publications, available from: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

'A collection to be savoured, pondered over and trawled for meaning, whilst enjoying the vividity of the images conjured by a talented poet.' ~Ewan Lawrie @ewanl.bsky.social My new book Contemplation of Roses is available from: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4

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Contemplation of Roses: Amazon.co.uk: Gwilym, Annest, Greig, Amos Gideon: 9798187312399: Books

Buy Contemplation of Roses by Gwilym, Annest, Greig, Amos Gideon (ISBN: 9798187312399) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#SmallpoemSunday 'Carnlough Bay' from my Safe Ground collection published last year by Mica Press @micapress @lesbell #Carnlough #Antrimcoast #seapoems

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Eve Castle @evecastle.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The Uses of Sorrow (in my sleep I dreamed this poem) Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. —Mary Oliver #SmallPoemSunday #poetry

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Wyrd Wednesday @wyrdwednesday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Wyrdlings! Grito de Dolores rang out to kick off Mexican Independence on 16 September 1810 and, accordingly, we give you: “A Mosaic of Different Worlds – Maya, Aztec, Mexico!” As this week’s #WyrdWednesday topic! Ven, siéntate, cuenta una historia, of the old days and of modern México!

A poster for this week's Wryd Wednesday with the theme: “A Mosaic of Different Worlds – Maya, Aztec, Mexico!” It shows a young person in the jungle surrounded by flora and fauna.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This arrived on Friday. A very beautiful collection by @annestgwilym.bsky.social which takes us on a vivid and lyrical journey across the seasons; anchored in the natural world and Wales. 👇 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4

Photo of cover; pale pink or peach with illustration of pink roses. Contemplation of Roses
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Lapwing
Ballyhalbert

Introduction to Poetry
After Billy Collins
I ask you to take my poem,
hold it like an opal to the bright eye of the sun, see the colours.
Or clasp it to your ear like a seashell.
I suggest you drop an adder into my poem, watch it slide around the curdle of words.
Or you could walk into the poem's dungeon, try to unpick the locks.
I want you to swim in the river of my poem, see if you can get to shore.
But all you want to do is place my poem in a birdcage, force it to sing its song.
You start by starving it
to find out what it really means.
Annest Gwilym

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Plans for the rest of the day. Image by Kuroda Seiki. @racheldeering.bsky.social

Image of a young woman in Victoria clothing reading a book, with shutters in the background. She is wearing a read top and a dark blue skirt.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Major additions to my TBR this weekend: Phengaris, Parch Marks, Contemplation of Roses, In the Shadow of Gods, Hookland Fragments & Odd 1.3… Thanks to @anna-orridge.bsky.social @annestgwilym.bsky.social @racheldeering.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social @zoomburst.substack.com @cultauthor.bsky.social

Phengaris and Parch Marks by Anna Orridge; Contemplation of Roses by Annest Gwilym; Hookland Fragments by David Southwell; Odd 1.3 edited by Mike O’Brien; In the Shadow of Gods by Rachel Deering

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

And the winner is . . . DoraArtist doraartist.bsky.social I'll be in touch with you about sending a copy 🥳🎉🙌

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Another delve into some of my older work. This one was a competition winner. The image that inspired it (an emperoro moth) was taken by me. #poetsofbluesky #poetsonbluesky #blueskypoets #poetrycommunity

Last Night I Became an Emperor Moth

I rode through the liquid night,
as a melon-slice moon crested a bank of cloud.
Part of the hush and curve of the universe;
Pleiades above me a diamond cluster ring.
Clothed in starlight, wings powdered,
furry belly glossy and plump.

Left the moor for a jaunt to the seaside,
over towns with flickering lights and strange smells.
Saw the sea corrugated by waves,
tang of salt quickening my senses.
Shimmied and played chase with the ladies,
rested with them on marram grass.

Birdsong ushered in the return of the sun;
drowsy, went home to sleep in the heather.
There to wait for my lover; my musk strong,
it will draw him from miles. He will come,
wings taut with blood. Antennae fresh as ferns.
Owl eyes pulsing with life like coals.

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BookWormSat @bookwormsat.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

‘Of the West the factory chimneys on sullen sentry will all night wait To call, in the harsh morning, sleep-stupid faces through the daily gate.’ ~ Louis MacNeice To mark the birthdate of MacNeice, #BookWormSat will explore the urban landscape in literature tomorrow. Do join us. 🏙️

Lowry, 1943, Going to work, painting, urban landscape of people going to work in a factory in a city scene.

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Melissa Ostrom @melostrom.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Delighted to have a flash in the wonderful @necessaryfiction.com. A special thanks to fiction editor Lacey Dunham.❤️

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Maria Carvalho @immcarvalho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Happy to share that 518 Publishing Company, a fab women-owned press, is publishing my micro story "Second Son" in their Dragons & Droids anthology 9/25! They did a little Q&A feature with me: www.pub518.com/post/droids-...

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Droids & Dragons Author, Maria Carvalho

Meet Maria Carvalho, a lifelong Connecticut resident. Maria is a published author and poet. "Writing stories and poetry came naturally to me as a child, but I got away from it as an adult, focusing o...

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An older poem of mine from my first book Surfacing, published by Lapwing Publications. First published in The Dawntreader. Just looking at how my poetry has changed over the years. #poetsofbluesky #poetsonbluesky #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

A poem about early autumn from my new poetry book Contemplation of Roses, published by Lapwing Publications. First published in Reach Poetry. Available from: www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0HG7ZY1Z4 #poetrycommunity #poetsofbluesky #poetsonbluesky #blueskypoets

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

To win a free copy of my new book Contemplation of Roses (see below) RT this post and I will select someone at random in a week's time. Good luck!

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Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

An older poem of mine. The beach pottery mosaic is a piece of wall-art I made from pottery shards found on various Welsh beaches, while recovering from a spell of mental illness. This process felt as if I was putting my own broken pieces back together as well. From my first book 'Surfacing' (2018).

An image of a mosaic made from pieces of vintage beach pottery which I found on various Welsh beaches. It is a round shape and measures 25 inches across. It now hangs on my bathroom wall.

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