Reading an unpublished poem ‘After Taliesin’ at Cheltenham Poetry Festival online featuring Hanna Koma and Romalyn Ante. Open mic slot.
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Reading an unpublished poem ‘After Taliesin’ at Cheltenham Poetry Festival online featuring Hanna Koma and Romalyn Ante. Open mic slot.
02.03.2026 19:21 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
For #smallpoemsunday and host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social - look out for the main man’s book with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social soon.
#poet #poetry #micropoem
14 years since my father went out of stationary orbit.
#fathers #grief #deaths #poetry #poet
Thrilled to be selected along with Dorian Nightingale among so many incredible poems for this week’s #FragmmentsFriday!
Thanks @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Carmella de Keyser holding her second collection Chasms. Publisher - Alien Buddha Press.
Front cover of Chasms, by Carmella de Keyser, publisher- the Alien Buddha Press
Fissures, lines, cracks etchings, imperfections in Earth.
#Chasms originates from the Greek word 'khasma' meaning yawning hollow/gulf. It is also, a profound #divide, #rift or impassable #rupture in the #earth between entities, peoples, #feelings, or ideas.
While writing Chasms, I felt hopeful in bridging all the internal #intersections I was considering.
More #fragmentsfriday poems to comment on from yesterday. All
in good time!
‘Hours after Midnight’, a new #poem for #fragmentsfriday
Happy Friday all.
#poetry #poet #writing #writingcommunity
Hamnet - very good film. 8/10 at the minimum and a lot more for the lead actress Jessie Buckley who kept the film’s emotional weight right through. Tremendous performance. ….
**** out of *****
New #poem ‘Life as a shuttling bubble-dome’ #poetry #life #breath #breathing
25.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Exposed Exhausted I stumble up the steep hill of you. Sense disappears in your gust. My words smashed against your craggs. I cradle the warm eggs of my words you snatch and crack open till my insides tumble unborn deadyolks colour the purple heather of your tongue that fills my mouth so my words cannot be heard, inert. I can't breathe. Your body is an oven whose mouth swallows my whole self. I inhale your gas. Fumble for meaning in the lost map of us.
For #promptcombo #Rupture @victoriaspires.bsky.social also #TopTweetTuesday #SylviaPlath @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
24.02.2026 08:45 — 👍 17 🔁 7 💬 4 📌 0
A poem prepared for @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and @helenlaycock.bsky.social to consider elsewhere. Enjoyed the challenge of writing it.
24.02.2026 11:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
A brilliantly sizzling #TedHughes tribute poem by fellow host of #TopTweetTuesday, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
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I have the pleasure this morning of being joint host of #TopTweetTuesday over on X alongside @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poets are invited to write on #SylviaPlath or #TedHughes.
This is my poem.
#poetry #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets #skypoets #poetrychallenge #poetrycommunity
For our #SylviaPlath and #TedHughes week on #TopTweetTuesday on Twitter, ‘Dream of Two Poets’.
‘She advances to him as one who could devour the fire and light of the room’
Big up to joint host @helenlaycock.bsky.social
Thank you x
23.02.2026 21:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thank you for hosting x
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I do poetic impressions and here, for your delectation, is my evocation of the great British poet, #TedHughes 🦊 ❄️
On the eve of our Ted and #SylviaPlath themed TopTweetTuesday on Twitter
‘The Thought-Fox’.
Give it a share, if you will.
#poetry #spokenword
For #promptcombo and theme #rupture a car tyre blown.
Thank you @victoriaspires.bsky.social
Hosting the #TedHughes inspired poems on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter nxt week is @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
‘I’m not looking for cribbed, derivate poems of Hughes. I am looking for gritty, tactile, sensory poems focused on spirit of place and the minutiae of flora and fauna. Above all, intensity!’
Hosting the #SylviaPlath inspired poems on next week’s TopTweetTuesday on Twitter is meteoric talent @helenlaycock.bsky.social
‘Rather than word-swap with Plath’s imagery, get to the heart of emotion/mood which drives your piece and trust your unique voice and language.’
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No kicking off if you don’t get the virtual trophy!
20.02.2026 13:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Cryptic!
20.02.2026 10:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Haha
20.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Cheeky!
20.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Surely a contender for poem of the week on #fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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Exactly one month until ‘The Way the Water Held Me’ is published! If you haven’t already, you can preorder your copy via the link in my bio ✨
My husband marked the one-month countdown until publication day by giving me this gorgeous little brooch featuring the front cover. Isn’t it lovely?
Our poem of last week on new #poetry platform #fragmentsfriday 🥂
‘gazing across tidal ghostlace’
@helenlaycock.bsky.social
#moon #tide #love
For #fragmentsfriday a #micropoem about lack. #poetry #desire #touch
For #fragmentsfriday a #micropoem about lack.
#poetry #desire #touch
‘We are in the Presence of Great Evil’
Content warning - genocide, organ harvesting, collective trauma 🩸
#promptcombo #AChangeofUse @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social #Gaza #ceasefire #peace
Published by @thesepagessing.bsky.social ‘A Canvas of Dimming Light’ based on #KyffinWilliams ‘Shepherd and Sheepdogs’
The shepherd is not happy with the artist! #Wales #poetry #art
