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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 13h

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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Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon) @anteroompoetry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Two gorgeous poems from @vespertine4.bsky.social and Louise Longson on the Anteroom #Substack today. Read them here: thewingedmoon.substack.com/p/new-poetry... #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #EcoPoetry

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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Overjoyed and grateful to receive my second Best of the Net nomination this year, this time from the wonderful @sageciggs.bsky.social! 🤍 A huge thank you to the editors for choosing my poem. I’m truly grateful for the recognition!

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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Huge thanks to @sageciggs.bsky.social for publishing my new pop-culture poem about Roy Orbison, his tender, innocent voice, and the possibility of renewal that it holds. 🌱 Here’s the link to read: sagecigarettes.com/held-too-lon...

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #DeadLetters is live. Address it. Stamp it. Confess something. Then decide whether it deserves to arrive. Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

‘If I had to describe poetry Beautiful contagion, ghost-code— infestation.’ #poetry #fragmentsfriday

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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Getting my #FragmentsFriday in early. Inspired by an apocalyptic sunset over the motorway on my way home from work the other evening. As always, thanks to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social

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Heavy Cloud @heavycloud.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This week’s #fragmentsfriday celebrates the importance of cultivating imagination. Thank you to @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for hosting 🙏

P R O P H E T I C I M A G I N I S T

unthrottle
the unborn-seeing

burst through
reality-rigged
thought-clots—
flood dream-droughts
with unfenced possibility

keep
the betterworldgift
unkillably seedwild

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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Overjoyed to have a poem in the new issue of @tapintopoetry.bsky.social 🧡 Thanks to the team for including my work. Check out the full issue here: tapintopoetry.wordpress.com/2026/09/20/t...

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 22/09/2026

A book about influence deserves another voice at the door. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison: first literary hero, lifelong influence, and eventually the starting point for these 27 poems. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I will never not be inspired by water, so here's a little river-based #FragmentsFriday. Thanks, as always, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for holding this space.

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Ella B. Winters @ella-b-winters.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Unexpected, overwhelming and delightful! Thank you so much for getting my Spring 2026 off to such a wonderful start, @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social @leiabutler.bsky.social @forwardprizes.bsky.social

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 18/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #Strays is live. Get lost. Go feral. Refuse to come when called. Post from today through Thursday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text. #TakeRisks #EndOnAnImage #AvoidCliché Read 3+. Repost. Reply.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026

You don't need to own every Doors record to understand 27. You just need to remember the artist who cracked open a door for you. The one who made another kind of art seem possible. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 17/09/2026

No money? We've kept free Cost of Living Places. No proof. No forms. No sob story required. Take the place. And if you can't attend at all, repost the workshop instead. There is more than one way to help keep an independent literary community moving. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 16/09/2026

Independent presses need readers. They also need rooms where writers can experiment, learn, argue, laugh and make new work. That's what we're trying to rebuild. If you want more from The Broken Spine, attending this workshop genuinely helps us make more possible. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 15/09/2026

#PoemsAbout #Strays starts Friday. Runaways. Outsiders. Lost dogs. Lost people. Feral hearts. Chosen packs. Write whatever refuses the collar. Draft now. Share from Friday. Tag #PoemsAbout. Use Alt Text.

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In cities or far away, I cannot help thinking about Gower and the wild coasts of South Wales. A haunting. ‘Water has its own life’. #poem #poetry #rivers #water #gower

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13/09/2026

We're not asking you to support The Broken Spine out of pity. Buy something useful. Four hours of writing. New material. Serious craft. Revision. Time to work. A substantial new draft. If it succeeds, we get to build more new things. Everybody wins. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Poets would you like to supercharge the next 12 months in your writing? Join ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’ on Sunday 27th Sept, 6 - 9pm. shorturl.at/MAztf #poetry #writing #writersofinstagram #writers #workshops

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 13/09/2026

Next up: #Strays. The unwanted. The unclaimed. The ones sleeping somewhere they shouldn’t. The ones who stopped waiting to be invited in. New theme begins Friday. Don’t post early. Use Alt Text. Tag #PoemsAbout. Read. Repost. Reply.

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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thrilled and honoured that @mosspuppymag.bsky.social have nominated my poem for @bestofthenet.bsky.social! A lovely surprise and a real honour. Huge thanks to the editors for this wonderful recognition! 🐶

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

Our #SilverBranch feature for August, Cardiff writer @elizafevwrites.bsky.social #poet #poetry www.blackboughpoetry.com/august-26-el...

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David Hanlon @vespertine4.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 09/09/2026

Your poem does not become less serious because somebody in it is eating a Findus Crispy Pancake. Thank you for attending our TED Talk. For the considerably longer version: THE POETRY OF CULTURAL DEBRIS 20 September Online shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

1st place 🥇 #fragmentsfriday #poetry Dorian Nightingale

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 06/09/2026

Somewhere along the line, writers got the idea that poetry needed permission to mention EastEnders. It doesn't. Nor does it need permission to mention Pokémon, Pot Noodles, Match of the Day, Tammy Girl or a Nokia 3210. Your culture is material. Use it. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 05/09/2026

What did your house smell like? What was always on television? What did your dad keep in the garage? What couldn't your family afford? What did you pretend not to want? Objects aren't decoration. They know things about us. Come and interrogate them. shorturl.at/IZ5TX

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 05/09/2026

They tell you not to meet your heroes. Nobody tells you what to do when you outlive them. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison. 27 looks at the distance between youthful obsession and the writer you become afterwards. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 03/09/2026

27 poems. Because some ages become numbers and some deaths become mythology. For Alan Parry He/Him it was Jim Morrison who provided the spark: life, work, sexuality, landscape, myth. Reimagined after the years passed. Foreword by Matthew M C Smith shorturl.at/FnHJS

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 03/09/2026

Want to lift writers in the indie poetry world? Read them. AFTER HOURS brings established and emerging poets together to drag the restless spirit of Beat writing into the present. Published before. Worth reading now. shorturl.at/ETO6h

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 28/08/2026

What useless thing have you remembered for twenty years? On 20 September, The Broken Spine presents The Poetry of Cultural Debris, an online writing workshop exploring pop culture, memory & the ordinary things we can’t quite forget. Come make poems from the junk. #PoemsAbout shorturl.at/NTneI

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The Poetry of Cultural Debris - A Writing Workshop

Turn cultural debris into poetry: use everyday objects, pop culture and memory to generate, craft, draft and revise compelling new work.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 28/08/2026

Loving dipping our toes back into poetry workshops. Alan brings years of professional teaching experience, & his workshops have always had fantastic feedback. We’re keeping them accessible too: free Cost of Living places, concessions, General Admission & Supporter tickets. #BadTaste coming soon!

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Matthew M C Smith @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Some people are never happy enough and drain the room. Many times it’s justified and other times it’s relentless negativity. Emotional vampires. #fragmentsfriday #poetry #writing #amwriting

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 27/08/2026

Tomorrow: #PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer. Write the ache after the party. The closed amusement park. The holiday romance that didn't survive August. Theme opens tomorrow. Use Alt Text.

Wooden jetty stretching into calm blue water beneath a pale sky, suggesting the close of a quiet summer day. Overlay text reads: “#PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer”.

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The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk · 25/08/2026

#PoemsAbout #EndOfSummer starts Friday. Empty beaches. Cooling nights. Sun-bleached memories. The last swim. The first goodbye. We favour vivid imagery over explanation. Draft now. Use Alt Text.

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

‘’Edges of Our Days’ is a masterful collection—a joy to return to, to survey the horizon from a looming clifftop.’ @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social on Polly Oliver’s debut #poetry collection. 🌊 ☀️ www.blackboughpoetry.com/polly-oliver...

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A Thousand Shades of Green @shadesofgreen.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

For today's Sunday Poetry Series poem, I am delighted to share this piece by Gary Gautier. You can learn more about Gary on our website athousandshadesofgreen.com/featured-wri...

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Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

TONIGHT!!! Share 3 poems in a supportive environment at the Black Bough Zoom open mic. More information!... shorturl.at/ScXjk

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