@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
Poetry editors - anyone else having a random volley of very similar s*bmis*ions in the inbox from college students, many with the surname ‘Kim’ from South Korea and the US? All seem like they could be AI generated, especially the cover emails.
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A lot of bickering & unnecessary tensions across the writing community in this incredibly atomised #poetrycommunity.
Musk and his right wing cronies won and fragmented the opposition and there’s sadly a lot of cattiness & silo thinking
Just get on with it. Try to get on 🖊️ 💎
Thank you xxx
05.08.2025 12:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#SealeyChallenge day 5 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
Jen Feroze ‘A Dress with Deep Pockets’
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#SealeyChallenge day 4 @sealeychallenge.bsky.social
Alison Lock’s ‘Thrift’ @alil.bsky.social
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You’re a star. No families are perfect but I was and am lucky in many many ways. I am really aware that others are not so lucky. Thanks for the kind words Mark
05.08.2025 08:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A ‘doxology’ is an expression of faith. This is a poetic one for my father, adapted from the well known Catholic one. 13 years gone and missed every day.
Written this morning for TopTweetTuesday and our host Ruby Mohan.
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So wonderful to get recognition from the fabulous @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for one of my collections. ❤️
04.08.2025 15:58 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A poem by Matt Smith
One good Rugby season after University. Time to properly train and detox from student life (though a Rugby club is not the best place to detox 😂 🍻)
Published by These Pages Sing in Wales.
Thank you Perry 🏉
#sealeychallenge day 3 - The Iliad, trans. Robert Fagles.
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#Sealeychallenge day 2 - Laurie Lee - Collected Poems.
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#TheOdyssey #Homer #writing #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity
02.08.2025 11:42 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0To hold it in my hands! Thanks to Swapna Maini for the gorgeous cover, to my Dad for his tireless work in getting this edition together in Delhi, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social for the opportunity to share these poems with the world. Drench Me in Silver coming soon!
01.08.2025 16:22 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
#SealeyChallenge Day 1.
Helen Laycock’s ‘Elemental’ - a collection of highly visual, painterly poems focused on the elements.
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A golden opportunity for those who booked our ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’. A bit of a thank you. A couple of features up for grabs next year. Deadline soon!
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Reading ‘Ridley Road’ from my 2023 Collection - Street Sailing @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
30.07.2025 16:57 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
‘a last minute call to the sun’ ☀️
from ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’ by Regine Ebner available with Black Bough.
Get your holiday reading! 🏖️
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Our TopTweetTuesday host on Twitter next week
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Ruby Mohan has been published in literary journals like the CRIT journal(USA), Disturb The Universe Magazine(USA) and From One Line(UK).
Most recently her haikus were published in Tranquility Haikus (LR Publishers)
We have another amazing #SilverBranch feature for August ☀️ 🏖️ but make sure you catch @oormilaprahlad.bsky.social superb feature for July!
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lol
30.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Do you have 31 poetry books?
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‘The population of Basingstoke are starving in the ring of steel’
An uncomfortable read. Maybe if this was closer to home and the people were not predominantly brown and Muslim, there would have been more to prevent the ongoing genocide
#Ceasefire #GazaStarving #GazaGenocide
‘the fabric of me came further apart’
A new poem inspired by the theme set this week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter.
‘Oppressive Practices’
Who’s doing the Sealey challenge this year?
Read and post about a poetry book each day through August.
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'exposed to the fatal winds
of a city, morbid at dusk' 🍂
'blood elegies, wail-shrieked' 🩸
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social sees winter as a Roman army invading the Celtic Autumn on the streets of Swansea.
At the press! Wet ink! What a day it was - such a pleasure working with @thomsonpress - Mr. Arjun Dev & team, Mr. Ram Ratan (in pic!) An honour to work with my fantastic editor @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social of @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social who graciously encouraged me to publish the India edition!
27.07.2025 11:21 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Really like The Book Bag.
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‘Evening contemplation is a sad hammer’
On #sharingsaturday ‘Night Sonnet #1’ by Aaron Kent and Stuart McPherson @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @godzillakent.bsky.social @stumcpherson.bsky.social
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A poem by Polly Oliver
‘rain seeps into the belfry’
‘No draw these days in humble praise
or gentle creak of ancient pew’
On #sharingSaturday Polly Oliver
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A poem by Jen Feroze
‘Plumes of watersmoke and spirit’
On #sharingSaturday
Jen Feroze @jenferoze.bsky.social from our winter anthology ‘22/ ‘23. ❄️
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