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Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

A message from Sarah’s family: Our beautiful Sarah passed away on the 27th of December. As you all know she was an exceptional human being who will be greatly missed by many. You can find more information about her Farewell on fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/a...

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Our last round of Pushcart Prize nominations from Black Bough. 🎉 🎈 🥳 @annachorlton.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @racheldeering.bsky.social @rfredekenter.bsky.social @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social Merry Christmas! Well done. Your nominations are in New York

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𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com · 24/12/2024

For the third time, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has nominated a poem of mine (that appeared in a @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social publication) for a @pushcartprize.bsky.social. I'm so grateful to him for championing my work like this, and I'd like to wish all my fellow nominees the very best of luck.

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Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Tomorrow, Page 2 of issue #7 The Starbeck Orion features the work of Sarah O'Grady, text and audio @palimpsest22.bsky.social

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Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Oh! What a fabulous Christmas surprise this is. Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social .

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Merril D. Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

It's so wonderful to be included in this winter anthology by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social with so many fabulous poets! ❄️❄️

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Bert’s Books @bertsbooks.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December. I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky. One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat! UK only.

4 shelves of books:
Shelf 1: A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder; Sandwich; The Other Valley; Orbital; Sometimes People Die; The List of Suspicious Things
Shelf 2: Ink Ribbon Red; Falling Animals; All the Colours of the Dark; Freakslaw; Leading Man; William
Shelf 3: Anyone's Ghost; Bored Gay Werewolf; The Betrayal of Thomas True; Guilty By Definition; The Pairing; The Actor
Shelf 4: The Last Murder at the End of the World; The Examiner; The Husbands; Helle & Death; Death on the Lusitania; The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I am proud to announce that all books by #SidhePress have been accepted by the National Poetry Library! Congrats to @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social @alisonphipps.bsky.social @khawlabadwan.bsky.social and all contributors who trusted me with their work, a big shout out

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James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Chuffed to have a poem of mine in here.

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Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Grateful to have a poem on a winter solstice festival in India in this lovely compilation by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - thanks to editor @elcurwen.bsky.social and EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social - happy festivities!

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Lesley Curwen @elcurwen.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I'm honoured to be guest editor of this bumper gift box of astonishing poetry. 🎄✨️

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Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Congratulations everyone. Wonderful poets here to discover.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Three of our Pushcart Prize nominees for the TopTweetTuesday project (2024): Julian Cason Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @ivordaniel.bsky.social

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Gayle J. Greenlea @gjgreenlea.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

So proud of my poet colleagues and their brilliant work. Congratulations and much admiration: Julian Cason @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @ivordaniel.bsky.social @markantonyowen.com Yvonne Marjot @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social

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Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Very honoured. What a poetry week I'm having! Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and congratulations to everyone on this list!

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

& spoilers! but what I keep returning to with this poem? The single word distillations in it are all key elements of other poems in this collection. It's one of the most masterful keystone pieces I've ever encountered, & @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social is flame

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Our books 2024, a🧵: we started off with `To Light The Trails – Poems By Women In A Violent World" My fabulous co-editors were Mo Schoenfeld @suefinch.bsky.social Giovanna MacKenna @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social Róisín Ní Neachtain. In the first few months, all proceeds from this book went to UNRWA,

Cover of To Light The Trails, Poems By Women In a Violent World. On the right, the front cover shows a vibrant 3-d- sun made out of cardboard, with yellow, red, gold, pink, white. On the left is a quote: The poems in To Light the Trails force us
to look, empowering the women and girls
featured in the pieces through the act
of witness. The voices of these women
refuse to be silenced, and from diverse
perspectives, we hear experiences of
escaping controlling behaviour, of living
in fear, of suffering assaults, of not being
believed, and of rising up and reclaiming
the narrative. The poems come together
to form a powerful and immensely
readable testimony to freedom and
resistance.
Hilary Otto, Zoetrope

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Sídhe Press @sidhepress.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Book no. 2 was the second book by Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social with Sídhe Press, `Always Fire`. This book was co-edited by Sarah herself and by @suefinch.bsky.social. @merrildsmith.bsky.social wrote the blurb & Róisín gifted us her beautiful artwork for the cover. The proceeds

Cover of Always Fire by Sarah Connor, with excerpts from an abstract painting by Róisín Ní Neachtain in red, blue, white, beige, yellow, black On the right is a quote:In her new collection, Always Fire, Sarah Connor
once again dances between bird-enchantment,
the realization of and reckoning with mortality,
and the joy and comfort found in the day-
to-day business of living. These are potent,
personal poems that speak to our humanity
and connection to the natural world around us.
Read Always Fire. Then read it again--because
these poems sneak up on you, gently grazing
your skin and grasping your heart.
Merril D. Smith, River Ghosts

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy weekend all. Don't forget to watch out for the start of #LentoAdvent on Sunday as it is shockingly 1 December!

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

UNESCO is launching this fierce lantern of witness-made-poetry next week, with tiny press/enormous heart @sidhepress.bsky.social Please come, spread the word, and #KeepTellingOfGaza Thurs 5 Dec: 4pm GMT / 11am EST (5am NZT, but yes, I'll see you there) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Book launch: Keep Telling of Gaza

Join us to celebrate Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps' new poetry bundle 'Keep Telling of Gaza.'

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Thanks for recommending The Ghost Lake in your Christmas gift guide, @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social ! 📕🎁 uk.bookshop.org/lists/gift-g...

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Gift Guide to... Natural History 2024

Check out this list on Bookshop.org

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

~Sarah Connor from The Poet Spells Her Name (2023) #poetry

A poem in a book, the page curved, distorting the words slightly. The rounded edge of a flat white petal peeps the top margin, like a ghost dog's tongue.

Text:
My poems are shrinking

Soon I will write a poem
that's a single word
ice
milk
cloud
leave you to do the work,
with your map of dreams and memories, your tales heard once,
your stories that have sunk into the bone
blade
flame
gull

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 24/11/2024

Hello Sunday, it’s a stormy morning so let’s stay inside with the #poetry #podcast & its stars Nuala MeEvoy, Koss, @moraganderson.bsky.social Richard Harries, Julie Didcock-Williams, Cathy Briel, Melanie Joy, @scyflynn.bsky.social & Klaus Funnell Also on YouTube youtu.be/cGezN5dkf3w?...

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Eat the Storms Episode 6 Season 9

YouTube video by Damien Donnelly

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

* Please share * we are a press that platforms diverse, imagistic work. We spotlight well known and lesser known writers. Anyone who makes it new, with wow factor! Inventive metaphor and jolting imagery are our thing! We are anti-discriminatory and against bigotry.

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a man in a black shirt with the word fresh behind him

ALT: a man in a black shirt with the word fresh behind him

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Marta Bilkova @martabilkova.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

An unpublished piece, written for a TopTweetTuesday challenge and read by the incredible Marc Woodward on Sendcastle radio nearly two years ago.

FOX

Deciduous snow. Time tissue
perforated along every edge. Lust

lightens below freezing. The trail
routinely followed, throughout her absence

nearly tactile. I withdraw. That part of me,
capable of survival. Licking the killing wound.

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Vikki C. @vikkicwrites.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A new poem posted today for Top Tweet Tuesday, a platform for imagist poetry hosted by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social over on X. 'In Polzeath, I’d split my body for him' Thought I'd share it here too. Thank you for reading 🙏🤍 #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #imagist

In Polzeath, I’d split my body for him

where frescoes of Skyrim
feign fortune & frieze—

invite frost-feathers of misflight.
Waiting for faith to blow warm,

the way the will is annexed
to heather & shore-sworn inheritance.

Outlands sculpt a skull.
What solemns its sockets?

Unbirded coves the Atlantic
tongues deep for violet relief.

Eves steep with salt & old language.
A woman unearthing her urn

to hold a whole tidal legacy.
To love his ruinscape, to be hooked

at such angle of pleasure—
his bright aspect a debt worth owing.

Vikki C.

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Just reposting this as I’ve added some more poetry journals/presses:

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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to participate by posting small poems you wrote, +/or small poems you love by somebody else :) bonus points today for poems w/a loose theme around *images*!! here’s a snippet by Margaret Ross, from her great book Saturday, & one by me @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social~

The wine opener was a silver person
who could raise her arms in despair.

ARTIFACT AVE

When you see my death, will you tell me?
Hold the envelope up
to the light? Middle school, beautiful
anger, tiny wind in the mouth
of a rabbit. Three vultures on the roof

one with a foot
in the chimney. The ash
of little answers
I brush out in the spring
like your hair

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

For #smallpoemsunday on our downundermonday - a fav wee quiet beauty from Andrea Cohen, & one from me - for the light-crawled (with thx to Black Bough Poetry for the latter's silvery home)

Ghosting

How cavalier
people are―
with language
and with silence.
Any ghost will
tell you―
the last thing
we mean
to do
is leave you.

Spring, loading

Weal of daylight-hill-split still
by winter's fading whip. What follows
the crack? A tunnelled clap of strange unsound: small prey holding sniff, pillars of nerve-beat candling in the grass. Blink and the leapt sun melts a hundred shadows burrowed. Every season maintains its weapon, hunts for keeps-every skin crawled by light, a temporary win.

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Absolutely gobsmacked/delighted that my new Nine Arches Press collection ‘Blackbird Singing at Dusk’ is the Observer poetry book of the month. I’m stunned. What a year this has been. #poetry

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Jane Dougherty @janedougherty47.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Urban myth We will never put out fires with gasoline we revere is far too much to waste it and will pour a planetful of life on the sacrificial pyre instead. #PoemsAbout #Fires @brokenspinearts.bsky.social #poetrycommunity

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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Once there was a Tabby Cat who ran a bookshop by Canterbury Cathedral. It was a marvellous place, with treasures on every shelf & free buttered toast & hot tea for all who visited. At Christmas, it glittered with lights & its window was a wonder of the city.

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

'We invite you, offering our words as a way' ~Khawla Badwan & Alison Phipps Keep Telling Of Gaza (Sídhe Press, 2024) Order: amzn.eu/d/4bNXgTa #poetry

The front cover of a poetry collection from Sídhe Press, 'Keep Telling Of Gaza', by Khawla Badwan and Alison Phipps. The cover art is a painting by Imad Abu Shtayyah, of a woman in an orange/red robe/dress and white headscarf, her face turned away from the viewer, rising from the rubble of buildings. The broken buildings comprise the lower half of her body to heart level, as if part of her raiment.

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 23/10/2024

✨Meet the contributors ✨ The Storms journal, issue 4 is delighted to welcome Diarmuid Cawley & his poem, Walking in St. Catherine’s, to the printed journal coming this November ⚡️ Supported by Fingal County Council & Dublin UNESCO City of Literature

The Storms journal, issue 4
is delighted to welcome Diarmuid Cawley
& his poem, Walking in St. Catherine’s,
to the printed journal
coming this November

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

This week's episode if you haven't found it yet, is another section from a long recording we made at Folkestone Warren in August. It is now daytime and the wind is up. Episode 242 - Kentish landscape time (60mins) > bit.ly/LenFolk8

pink rose bay willow herb flower in front of trees, brambles and bushes at their height of August lush-ness. on a bright day.

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Some children in my class pray for the weakening sun to last a little longer. They want to hug the last of the warmth, walk home in light. Others though, cannot wait for it to get colder. Asked why, they reply: "We want the Stay Belows to hibernate Miss." – Joanna Vickers, 1982

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Sunshine and rain. 🌦️ Episode 125 - May rain in the Forest of Dean (30 mins) Tangled vines warm in the heat over the forest floor. High above the approaching clouds, a jet plane softly rumbles by. > bit.ly/LenFoD6

silhouette of tall grass against a blue sky with big grey / white clouds.

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Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

If this week's episode has made you want to listen to more places where the curlew roam, here's a selection of episodes to explore.

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The magical sound of curlew

Radio Lento episodes featuring the sound of curlew.

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Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social · 03/10/2024

Just creeping on here to say that I won the Scots category of the McLellan Prize. I’m in Galloway waiting to see if I get further than the shortlist of the Wigtown Prize (Scots) tomorrow - I’m having a v exciting poetry year 🎉

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a cartoon character holding a bow and arrow

ALT: a cartoon character holding a bow and arrow

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Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com · 01/10/2024

Meet the contributors ✨ The Storms journal, issue 4 is delighted to welcome Fodhla Ward and her visual art to the printed journal coming this November ⚡️ Supported by Fingal & Dublin UNESCO City of Literature

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

🖼️ John Derian

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

A new #poem about the poet William Carlos Williams. Hope you enjoy!

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

One of the collections of the summer - Rachel Deering’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ - 4 months old! 🎉 📖 @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘the precision of a scientist and the furor of a visionary’ (Dr Chris Laoutaris) www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

‘I weighed the night on the scales of absence’ ⚖️ 🌙 ‘The Dead Want Their Moon Back’ By @racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

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