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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

For my grandfather Brian, who passed away over 20 years ago and suffered from dementia. 😔 Thanks to Jack from the Candyman’s Trumpet and guest editor @carolynthomas.bsky.social #grief #dementia #dementiaawareness💜

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Poetry Day - it’s been a busy but wonder-ful day - made even better by seeing the new edition of the Candyman’s Trumpet - so fabulously curated by @carolynthomas.bsky.social Diolch to you and Jack! And huge congratulations! 🤩🍻 @poetrydayuk.bsky.social #poetry #wonder

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So privileged to curate the work of such amazing Welsh poets. Thank you all and thanks to Jack Caradoc for this wonderful opportunity drive.google.com/file/d/1JOZ0...

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Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks @carolynthomas.bsky.social For including 4 of my poems

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Open today! Submissions for the Welsh issue of The Candyman’s Trumpet. Please follow guidelines on the call out attached

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A panic write for #PoemsAbout #SheddingSkins! Happy Friday everyone - make the most of it! 😬😂 Thanks @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk I look forward to reading everyone’s later! #poetry #writing #cicada

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Polly Oliver’s book launch at Harry’s Bar in Mumbles. Pictured - Richard Rock, @clairepearson.bsky.social @carolynthomas.bsky.social @richlyevocative.bsky.social @helenlaycock.bsky.social Thia Malan.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Four featuring the work of @gillcresearch.bsky.social the880.substack.com/p/welcome-to...

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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Four featuring the work of Gill Connors

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

August’s issue of The Candyman’s Trumpet includes brilliantly powerful work by Afghan women and it’s free to subscribe - just email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com Thrilled my pieces celebrating #champagne are also included #poetrycommunity #poetssupportpoets

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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Delighted to have three new poems within Alien Buddha Zine 89! 'In the Vinyl Store', 'Illegal' & 'Connection'. The poems touch upon subjects of connection & the ethics of legalese technical language in regard to human beings, contexts & emotions. Many thanks to @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social 🙏🏻

In the Vinyl Store by Carmella de Keyser

Connection by Carmella de Keyser. This is a partner piece to Sea Glass Requiem.

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Delighted that my poem “I had a” is published in Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social alongside an excellent group of poets and artists. Thanks to the amazing head editor Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & editor Lowena Olver. A draft appeared on #poemsabout #poetrycommunity #Oulens …

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I had a by C. Oulens — Full House Literary

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I am absolutely delighted that my poem Doorstep, both as text and a #poemsaloud recording, is in the wonderful online poetry magazine Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social My eternal thanks to the wonderful editors Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & Lowena Olver. #poetrycommunity

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Doorstep by Paul Connolly — Full House Literary

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Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Thanks so much to @parlyareepress.bsky.social for publishing my seventh book of poems. Out in September. I’ll post separately to thank the writers who have endorsed then book.

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

For this week's #PromptCombo for @rfsmith.bsky.social and the topic #RealPeople A recent poem of mine that was in The Candy man's Trumpet (thanks to editor and legend Jack Caradoc) for the Match 2026 issue about 'Family' All true.

Text of a poem called "The Year of the Beetroots" by Emily Tee from The Candyman's Trumpet Issue 9, March 2026

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Sue Ibrahim @sueimnw.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This week's #PoemsAbout poem is for all poets currently dwelling in or on #CheapMotels ... @thebrokenspine.co.uk

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Had started writing a dragon story, after a small chitchat with @carolynthomas.bsky.social but you can trust me to digress. Really grateful to Editor @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social , @scifansat.bsky.social for publishing my first short story. #Oulens #writingcommunity scifansat.com/bibi/?book=S...

A screenshot showing the title and a part of my story. Can be accessed at the link in the post.

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

So honoured to be part of this! @iamb.uk Thank you @markantonyowen.com #poetry

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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Part reflective poem/part rage-rant, published in this anthology from Like a blot from the blue. Honoured to have words alongside @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social @carolynthomas.bsky.social, and many others.

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

So thrilled to be here @iamb.uk Thanks @markantonyowen.com - I can’t wait to hear these wonderful poets! #poetry #spokenword #writing

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...

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Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!

thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.

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Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Guess who's going to have this 'Rooted' #Sculpture in an upcoming #June #PublicArt #expo in #Madrid? Yep! #International #Digital #Art #CollectiveDisplay

Rooted: Daisy branch segment, disc of Redwood, chalk and oil pastels

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

A real honour to be a small part of the wonderful lineup for this great #live event organised by the brilliant @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Do try to make it if you can - and even if you can’t, please download the #UnwhisperedLegacy PDF and make a contribution to MSF #poetrycommunity #poetryislife

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

2nd place 🥈 on #fragmentsfriday Dora Dagostino with ‘Midnight Snacks’ 😋

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I love @thetoypress.bsky.social so I was delighted to have a poem and illustration accepted for the Celebration edition yesterday! Thank you EIC @writessue.bsky.social - it’s fab to be amongst so many poetry friends! #poetry #poetryforkids #writingforkids #kidlit #kidlituk

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

3rd place on #fragmentsfriday 🥉 @andyperrincycling.bsky.social Back in the finalist spots 🔥

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

New release from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social ! I'm thrilled to have a poem included in this exciting--and long awaited collection--"Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot's The Waste Land!" 🔥

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

@hookland.bsky.social & @frankhudson.bsky.social (who also posted a version of the poem) inspired me to record Edward Thomas’s Adlestrop. Whenever I read it I’m struck of course by the shadows cast upon Thomas’s seemingly simple pastoral idylls but also by the poem’s oddity & ghostliness #poemsaloud

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

#SaveTheDate 19th April 2026 I'm delighted to announce that my Poet Page/Profile with 6 #poems will appear on the Sixty Odd Poets substack. Many Thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this possible! Link available on the day #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout

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Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

In lieu of writing a new piece (I might manage something in the next day or two) here's an Ekphrastic piece to a painting entitled Eschatological. For #promptcombo #visions @rfsmith.bsky.social

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Early childhood memory of a persistent nightmare and jumping into my parents’ bed. For #promptcombo & @rfsmith.bsky.social - thank you #poem #poetry #nightmare #nightterror

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I am thrilled that @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social has published three longer pieces of mine on the wonderful @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social They’re all #visions Millennial is urban, Worlds’ Ends concerns places & histories, & The Mark is folkloric. @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #poetrycommunity

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Sharpen your claws, whet your fangs for this week's #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons 👹🔥 Use the hashtags & tag @dragonslayerma.bsky.social to get involved! #poetry #prompt #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #PoetsOfBluesky

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Jan Peters - Solivagant Wisdom @janpsolivagant.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Big thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this happen! Six #Poems: Bars in #Bardo #Brutalist buildings #Necromancy #Baudelaire meets #Mabinogi #EelPieIsland Shoutout to #poetrycommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout for your support over the past year or so of my #poetry journey!

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Have a great week. My response to your timely #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons is a sonnet from my forthcoming (May 1st) collection with Culture Matters Press, "In Your Mouth":

Warhead

Seeds burst from the barrels of flowerheads.
There was traffic here once. Listen. Listen.
Ghosts. Bustling, raucous silence elbows treads
invisible in wounded streets, broken.

The seeds strike, make hollows of busy homes.
Absences are in full bloom, vibrant glades.
Stroll between rainbow-bloomed borders of bones.
Inhale aromatic fragrant dead shades.

This city a garden of the fresh gone.
Snipers make spaces for new shoots to grow.
Refugees tell the way it carried on.
Their stories keep their children in the know.

They rename their city atrocity.
Actual help is needed, not pity.

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Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Born on this day in 1943, the late Louise Glück was a fascinating poet. To commemorate her birthday, here’s an old thread of mine on her brilliant approach to using myth 👇

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Absolutely giddy to hear that John Agard has chosen my poem for The Guernsey Literature Festival exhibition #PoemsOnTheMove 🚌⛴️✈️ poemsonthemove.com Thank you - and congratulations to everyone there! 🥳 #poetry #writing

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C. Oulens @owlnsquirrels1111.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thanks to The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press Judge & Editor Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social for spl mention of my piece “In Shadow’s Vigilance“ in response to Andrew Mellon’s inspiring art. Congrats to winner @carolynthomas.bsky.social #Oulens For the full piece: open.substack.com/pub/theweesp...

In Shadow's Vigilance
I did not enter from the sky.
Condensing from shadows— keeping the night-folding its smudges in my keeps.
Holding. Keeping.
Unfolding-regarding
that which refuses sleep.
I bore the weight in my eyes.
Breathing the stench of stillness.
My wings spread wide-hovering

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Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

My Owl Child has taken flight! Thank you so much Wee Sparrow Poetry Press and @emteepoetry.bsky.social for welcoming her! A huge congratulations to poetry pal @carolynthomas.bsky.social for her beautiful winning piece Blodeuwedd in Flight open.substack.com/pub/theweesp...

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Ekphrastic Challenge 14

The winning poem and a selection chosen by editor and judge, Emily Tee

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Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Tell your buddies. This is the new online home of Molecules Unlimited (the poetry group that combines verse with the chemical sciences). Thanks!

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Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

@poets please connect. I think I’m done with Meta as they threw me out.

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Andy Perrin @andyperrincycling.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

I forgot to post here yesterday for #FragmentsFriday! Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Inspired by the worst blizzard in Rhode Island history and all the other storms we live with.

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