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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Recently, I've started writing poetry for teenagers after reading about a young person who committed suicide.

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Punk Dust @punkdustpoetry.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Thank you @traceyrhys.bsky.social for your kind words. BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS comes out in 10 days. Pre-order from PunkDust.com or ask your local bookshop. @jamiewoods77.bsky.social is reading at Elysium Swansea on June 26th, more dates tba. #NewPoetry #WelshPoetry #BlackSkiesDieStarless

It's an advert for a book. On the left is a quote. It says "Ominous with small-town despair, Jamie Woods' Black Skies Die Starless is a stylish coming of age take, set in the 1990s. Punky and unfettered. Intense and cinematic. So evocative, a reader might glimpse themselves in the passenger seat of the next car at the red lights; spliff in hand, head back, blocking out the best years of their lives. Tracey Rhys"On the right are stylised words - Punk Dust Poetry, Black Skies Die Starless, Jamie Woods, 1st July 2025, punkdust.com and all good bookshops. In the background is a photo of a young man looking naive and lost.

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

A new poetry collection by @parthianbooks.bsky.social and Welsh writer Tracey Rhys. @traceyrhys.bsky.social ‘ I can take the slow form of droplets on your glass’.

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Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Always a pleasure, butty 😁 It’s a great collection 😍

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Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Read this Very Good collection by my pal @traceyrhys.bsky.social and it is Very Good but also a peak out of context comedy moment.

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Can't wait to join Rhian and Christina on the 19th. Book your free ticket as spaces are limited.

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Wow @carolynthomas.bsky.social this is so kind, thanks so much! 🙏❤️

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Cardiff Hubs & Libraries @cdflibraries.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Unrhyw un eisiau gweld rhestr o farddoniaeth yr haf? Mwynhewch waith newydd sbon gan @traceyrhys.bsky.social, Christina Thatcher a Rhian Elizabeth ddydd Iau 19/06 yn @cardiff-hub.bsky.social! Mae’r tocynnau am ddim yn www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs...

Dydd Iau 19 Mehefin 2025, 5.45pm. Hyb Llyfrgell Ganolog Caerdydd. Christina Thatcher, Tracey Rhys a Rhian Elizabeth. Darllen o'u casgliadau barddoniaeth newydd Breaking a Mare, Bathing on the Roof, a maybe I’ll call gillian anderson. I archebu eich tocyn AM DDIM, sganiwch god QR yma neu ewch i www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs-libraries

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

I've only just seen this! Haven't got the hang of Bluesky to be honest, but this is a lovely and welcome surprise. Thank you, Carolyn 🙏❤️

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

A pleasure to be at the launch of @traceyrhys.bsky.social and Christina Thatcher's latest collections from @parthianbooks.bsky.social, hosted by poetry editor @soozerama.bsky.social. Reviews below alongside @pascalepetit.bsky.social from @mabjones.bsky.social 👇

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Wonderful launch of Christina Thatcher's Breaking a Mare and my own Bathing on the Roof at Waterstones Cardiff on Thursday. Such warmth! It felt dream-like to introduce my book to you.

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I'm in the Western Mail Weekend magazine today talking about Bathing on the Roof! Many thanks to Jenny White for giving me the opportunity to talk about the evolution of the book. Out now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thanks for your kind words, Gordon!

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Gordon Anderson @librarygordon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Get yourself to this, Cardiff. Two very fine poets and lovely people. 🙂 Something positive and full of craft and heart, in troubled times.

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Thanks for your kind words, Corinna, and for the repost too xx

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Many disabled people spent 14 years holding on, surviving Tory cruelty, by focusing on 'if we can just get a Labour gov, this will stop'. I can't describe the community's betrayal and hopelessness now it's turned out Labour not only haven't stopped, they're going further. #WelfareNotWarfare 1/

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I've made a late-night recording (it was 11pm so I do look a bit knackered) of one of my poems from the new collection. This one is about multiple miscarriages so bear that in mind if you feel it might upset you. youtu.be/2P1qQhMQY3E?...

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The Butterfly House by Tracey Rhys

YouTube video by Tracey Rhys

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Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"Oxwich doesn’t wave its past in your face; it lets you stumble upon it. What it is, is a gentle, constant presence – a place that lets the bay and the cliffs do all the shouting while it leans back, waiting for you to notice just how much it has to say."

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Hello Monday. 🖼️ William Joyce

A man in a coat and hat holds a rod with a fish at the end of it up to the worried face of a giant sea creature with many entwined tentacled limbs. Drawing.

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Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

One of the best ways to improve your own #poetry is to read other people's. I've really enjoyed the inventiveness & imagination in @janeburn.bsky.social 's new collection 'The Apothecary of Flight' published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social Here's a snippet from a poem I love. Congrats, Jane.

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

He does look up for an adventure, doesn't he?!

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Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Ooh @corinnaboard.bsky.social has compiled 2 lists of poetry magazines so that's incredibly useful. If you look her page and click 'Starter Packs' you'll find both lists.

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Katie Hale - writer @katiescribbles.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Hey there #writers! Just sharing this week's #writing opportunities - including an upcoming @alcs-uk.bsky.social deadline, and a prize from @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Good luck! 🤞 halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...

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Five Things Friday: issue 2

BBC, Society of Authors & ALCS - and a chance to win £10,000 for your writing

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Well, I never knew about this! Borrowbox? Sounds brilliant.

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SeaGoatScreamsPoetry(Ankh Spice) @seagoatscreams.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here in Aotearoa it's Trans Day Of Remembrance. Every year, we light the candle Cate was gifted in Thailand, pour love & memory into the flicker & smoke, let it reach the dead. And we cry. This year, in the current shadow, more than ever. Friends, how we love you. Stay with us, any way you can.

A candle with three wicks, all alight. Its edge, picked opaque with light, is a green wax leaf with distinct veins, as if the whole is wrapped in foliage. The centre with the wicks is pale orange. To the right of the candle is laid a deep red rose. Strong shadows lend this picture solemnity and quiet.

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Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Morning Tracy ~ now look what you gone and done ….

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Freezing ones face off! 😄❄️ That made me smile, Tracy Rees. Going to do the same in Bridgend in a moment - this kind of morning frost is best served crunchy underfoot. Looks like it could snow over here but nothing yet!

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I'm very much looking forward to reading with the Parthian crew outside the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye over the Hay Festival Winter Weekend. It's Saturday November 30th. Come and see us!

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

For poets & artists, Bluesky right now feels like a family reunion, but a mythical one you *actually want to go to* & by this I even mean us introverts, a double miracle.

A view of very blue, calm sea shallows, and hints of blue sky, through a straggly pōhutukawa branch horizontalling the top half of the picture. Pale rocks jut from the water in a herd, like a family of volcanic tortoises. The creamy sand of the sea floor is visible at the edge around the rocks, submerged in utterly clear water, undisturbed by light ripples.

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

😂😂😂 good to see you on here, Kempsters.

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

So good. You should send your portfolio in to some publishers - your mandalas would look fantastic on the cover of books/journals.

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Gemarella 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @gemarella.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Thought I'd share one of my paintings. A3 Ink painting. Hand drawn mandala.

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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Poem of hope, and keeping going👇 #poem #poetrycommunity #poetry

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Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Some more lovely poets to follow: (there are so many here now this is just a small selection!) @traceyrhys.bsky.social @khuangwrites.bsky.social @lauratheis.bsky.social @judemarr.bsky.social @oh-so-boatie.bsky.social #PoetsonBluesky

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Oh, thank you Corinna! Great to see you here 👋

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Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Shwmae, Marcelle! 🙋‍♀️

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🖼️ Emily Robertson

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Wendy Pratt @wendypratt.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Out down the lane then up to the field where the frost is already beginning to thaw. A flock of curlews lifting from the stubble field, small kestrel in the bare bones of an oak. Stubble frozen at the field edges, everything perfected by the frost. #noticings

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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Do, Just Don't (HappenStance Press, 2023), this poem speaks of making a fresh start... ...the building's lost stories finding a voice again, blending old plots with new...

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