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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

A thrill to see BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social on the 2026 @forwardprizes.bsky.social Best Collection Shortlist 🌟 Thank you to the prize and Judges for this exciting honour. Congratulations to Caroline and the other listed poets 📚 Net yourself a copy now ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

To mark #DementiaAwarenessWeek we're highlighting BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social 💚 'A beautiful collection'– Kamila Shamsie 'A remarkable journal of care and its complex narratives' - Jane Draycott 'Tender without sentimentality' - Abeer Ameer ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Do join us for a great night of poetry and bring a poem to share!….

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Still a few spaces left! I’m so looking forward to coming to the wonderful Poetry Pharmacy in Bishops’ Castle on Sunday. Do join us to share, create and enjoy poetry together. ✍️💥☕️ @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

happy to be reading with @csmithpoet.bsky.social Sunday at Torriano Meeting House hosted by @lisadmkelly.bsky.social in north London! It’s 7.30pm Kensal Rise and welcomes poets from audience reading their poems. Come along and join the open mic to read together! ✨🎉💫 torriano.org/whats-on/poe...

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Next poetry event at Lumen! Readings plus Poets from The Floor. It’s a really lovely space. Hope to see you there!

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Come to our great event in Wembley. Home not just to football but also to poetry! Listen to wonderful poets Jane Clarke & Jessica Mookherjee - with the chance to share a poem in the open mic @janeclarke.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social @bloodaxebooks.bsky.social

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Still time to book your ticket on Eventbrite or just roll up to Rock Road library in Cambridge. Wednesday 25th February. Poetry, discussion, refreshments! Lovely if you can join us! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social @cupoetryandprose.bsky.social @cambridgeccw.bsky.social @cambslib.bsky.social

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Let's look ahead to brighter days, sign-up for our TRIPLE ONLINE LAUNCH on Tuesday 21st April, 7pm featuring #poetry from @jennywcreative.bsky.social @betarish.bsky.social and @kymdeyn.bsky.social as they celebrate these wonderful new books. Pay what you can: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/triple-onl...

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

If you are free this Tuesday 10th Feb why not bring your poems to Lumen for Readings and Open Mic for a great evening of poetry ! @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Troy Cabida @troycabida.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

So lovely to read poems for Wolverhampton Lit Fest yesterday with @csmithpoet.bsky.social and @ninearchespress.bsky.social!!

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Calling #poetry friends in #Cambridge You're invited to Poetry of Care - readings from BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social Rock Road Library, CB1 7UG Wednesday 25th February at 7.15pm Book your free place here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-of-...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Join us at Wolverhampton LitFest this Friday and hear #poetry from @csmithpoet.bsky.social and @troycabida.bsky.social in conversation with Editor Jane Commane: Memory, Story & the Creation of Identity Friday 6th Feb, 11.30am Art Gallery www.wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Thank you so much for sharing this. 😊

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Can’t wait for this! Please join us. 😊

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social and @troycabida.bsky.social with Editor Jane Commane at this wonderful #poetry event on Friday 6th February. Enjoy poem readings and discussion from 11.30am at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery as part of the LitFest. Book your place: wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Thank you so much. So pleased it resonated with you. 💜

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Many congratulations! @ninearchespress.bsky.social are fantastic publishers to be a part of. 👏

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

SPOTLIGHT #poetry book - Popular Song by Harry Man @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social - full of wonder and melody, a jukebox of poems. 'It’s a giant, wondrous exclamation mark of a book.’ – @betarish.bsky.social Now in our seasonal sale, just £7.99 ninearchespress.com/shop

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

In festive mood signing books at Queen’s Park Bookshop today! Thank you @qpbooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Definitely worth getting! I have 😊

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Do join us if you are in Rickmansworth, Chesham, Watford area! Chorleywood is a lovely place 😊

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Troy Cabida @troycabida.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Spent Friday morning with fellow @ninearchespress.bsky.social poet @csmithpoet.bsky.social signing books and recording poems for @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social! As both of our books came out the same month, Caroline and I agreed that our books should have the combined nickname of Neon Bycatch!

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Guess who I bumped into at The Poetry Pharmacy in Oxford Street! What an amazing place of seductive aromas, enticing poetry books and warm hospitality. Lovely to sign books together and read poems. 😊Thank you @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Thank you for organising it! 😊

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Announcing an evening of #poetry with @csmithpoet.bsky.social and Erica Hesketh - sharing moving, honest poems of family, parenting, care, love, and life's uncertainties. At Chorleywood Library, Tue 9th December, 7pm Hosted with Chorleywood Bookshop chilternbookshops.co.uk/event/an-eve...

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An evening with Caroline Smith & Erica Hesketh - Chiltern Bookshops

Join us for a lyrical evening of poetry with Caroline Smith and Erica Hesketh. BYCATCH – Caroline Smith From prize-winning poet Caroline Smith, BYCATCH is a deeply...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now. Plus FREE UK postage across the shop. Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

So looking forward to reading with my fellow poets @troycabida.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Join us for our next online launch with @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest poet @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Thursday 13th November at 7pm. 📹 Recording sent to ticket-holders in case you can't join live 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Always a delight to see a 5 ⭐review. This one is for the 'profoundly moving' BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social Tempted?... Buy your copy here: ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Sharing a stunning poem from BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social 'A beautiful collection. Smith’s precise, unsentimental language evokes the different stages of losing a parent, all the while reminding us that heartbreak is a measure of love.'– Kamila Shamsie ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Beautiful. I can feel myself there. X

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I am so delighted you are coming Sari. We read together at The Magma launch in the summer. I loved your poem then and can’t wait to read a collection by you. See you soon! 😊

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Here's a stunning #poem from freshly published BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social 'So much love, care, grief, and dignity is presented in this collection.' – Hitomi Grace Utsugi ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Our next online launch features @csmithpoet.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social & guest @jessmookherjee.bsky.social Join us Thursday 13th November, 7pm 📹 Recording sent to all ticket-holders in case you can't join live. 🎫 Reserve your place, pay what you can www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-lau...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Publication day for BYCATCH by @csmithpoet.bsky.social A remarkable, meditative journal of caring for ageing parents, composed throughout with striking clarity of image and compassionate observation. A beautiful, finely resonant book. Congratulations Caroline 💚 ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thank you to Bernard O'Donoghue for his words about BYCATCH, out this week from @csmithpoet.bsky.social ⬇️ A compassionate, poetic chronicle of care and dementia, family, love and loss. Order your copy now: ninearchespress.com/publications...

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Terrible train journey but worth it! Wonderful Festival! 💐 @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

Thank you Kamila Shamsie for these heartfelt words describing BYCATCH, the upcoming 'beautiful' #poetry collection by @csmithpoet.bsky.social Order your copy now: ninearchespress.com/shop#!/Bycat...

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Happy National Poetry Day! ❤️ A poem from ‘Bycatch’ my new collection out next Thursday with @ninearchespress.bsky.social #nationalpoetryday #nationalpoetryday2025

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I have a poem in the Canadian journal @arcpoetry.bsky.social… ‘This volume gathers voices that echo across time and space - some whispering, some roaring, some weeping, all resonant.’ .. ‘Ocean World’ will also be in my new collection Bycatch. Out on 9th Oct! with @ninearchespress.bsky.social

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Thanks Sari for that lovely comment. I’d love you to come to the launch if you are in the UK on 16th October. ☺️

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

On Alzheimer’s Day My poem ‘Forest Canopy’ from my new collection, ‘Bycatch’ out on October 9th with @ninearchespress.bsky.social ‘Bycatch’ charts the process of aging, dementia and the loss of language #alzheimersday #alzheimersawareness

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Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Thrilled if you can join us for my first Reading from BYCATCH. Delighted to be sharing the evening with poet Erica Hesketh. Thank you Brent Libraries for making possible this free community event. Hope to see you there! 😊

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Join @csmithpoet.bsky.social to celebrate the publication of BYCATCH at Wembley Library, alongside poet Erica Hesketh. Their books are beautifully moving explorations into the beginning and end of life, parenting & ageing, sadness & joy. Thursday 16th October 6.30pm eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-in-...

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Nine Arches Press @ninearchespress.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Sharing a wonderful poem and blog from @csmithpoet.bsky.social as she discusses 'In Decline'. Here dementia reveals itself, urban images are juxtaposed with 'misplaced' language, prompting questions about the notion of personhood. ninearchespress.blogspot.com/2025/08/in-c... Taken from Bycatch.

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