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Writer. Campaigner for Paviland relics to come back to Swansea. PhD Robert Graves. Author of ‘The Keeper of Aeons’, ed. Black Bough. Staff @poetrywales
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Excited to support this event as Guest Poet on July 16th with the dynamic
@guinevere_baubo
with
@stevebalsamo
sponsored by
@SeventhQuarry
for
@womensaid
🎙️ 🔥 at
@SwanseaGrand
book now!
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Had a really moving e-mail back from a poetry mag today.
I sent them the saddest ever poem about my Dad - a piece I’ll never be able to read out loud - instant tears. They’re publishing it and thanked me for sending in ‘sacred work’. Major high point of this writing vocation.
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Don’t give up on a poem you care about & know has worth. One of mine has been rejected several times and I submitted to a journal I love, which I’ve been rejected with 3 years running. Just heard they’re publishing the poem and naming the issue after it. 😬
#staystrong
#stamina
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Peace & love to all - it’s my 44th 🎂 and though I can’t eat any of this cake - I’m diabetic - it looks bloody lush. Also have Covid, which isn’t nice, hence the bedraggled look, but being spoilt rotten by my crew 💕 ❤️ 🎉 🥳
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We all get disappointed by poetry rejections. Do not. Bear this in mind: editors are human & imperfect. Editors can have a bad day. Poetry is a matter of taste. Editors can have hundreds, if not 1000s of poems sent. Editors get tired and cross-eyed! Just keep trying one & all👍
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POETS. Looking for an editor for your poems? I am willing to mentor two poets (the right people) for FREE for a period of a year. This will be on the basis of e-mail correspondence. Send a cover e-mail with examples of your poems. You should be aiming to publish a book.
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Updated my own writing page - please stop by and take a look.
Share if you’re feeling particularly generous and make sure you have a good day too 😉
#poetry
#writing
#welshwriting
#readers
@LitWales
#poetrytwitter
🖊 💻 📚 🏴 🌏
👇
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The rumours are true - it’s my birthday - 46 - getting vintage! 🎸 🔥 I like this photo so re-sharing.
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A labour of love - the Christmas-winter anthology no. 4 ❤️🔥 🖊️ 💎
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Going to have a drink or two tonight to celebrate an acceptance for a poem I’ve worked on over and over (and over... and a bit more). The poem is special to me and is on the deep-time theme coming out of an adventure last summer. 🙏
#mesolithic
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Post pics of any signed
#poetry
books you have. I’m lucky enough to own a signed ‘Crow’ 👇 want to see your books…
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This year, I'll celebrate 6 years of a poem being in a Submittable queue. I'll be very sad if it is ever removed.
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One of the main things I’ve learned by submerging myself in poetry for several years. Impactful, inventive, atmospheric, evocative, etc., poetry can be written by anyone. Don’t just look at the published, award winning writers. Look all around you….
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Two poetry acceptances since Friday for journals I’ve wanted to get into, one of which I was rejected by last year. Ive learned by experience to have a dogged, unemotional approach to submissions.
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Yes, thank you, I’ll take the poetry acceptance on a Friday morning.
Editor: will I consider changing the title?
- Absolutely.
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Six years ago today I self published my first thingy… chapbook/ collection? Did it all backwards. Book first and published individual poems after. I didn’t have a clue about the wonderful weirdness of the poetry world and knew very few poets. 6 years has whizzed by. Jeez. 🤩
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🔥Red Lady of
#Paviland
update 🔥
...and it's a breakthrough. We met Swansea Council recently & they're exploring a loan of these iconic relics after the refurb of the museum is carried out. This is a significant step for Swansea given the Ice Age hunter was taken 200 yrs ago 🧵
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Yesterday was a whirlwind - didn’t get accepted with one press for a chapbook/ collection and then did by another press within hrs 🔥 There are usually 365 days in a year so how come on the same day? Very excited and will be getting down to some serious shaping and crafting! 🔥
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Cracking night at the Dylan Thomas Centre with
@owensheers
@JoMazelis
and
@jessmkrjy
🎙️
@LitWales
Here I am reading ‘Like Flame Horses Through the Temples of the Sun’ for my daughters ❤️🔥
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Getting my second poetry book together to submit to a publisher this week; well, a sample of it.
Wish me luck on this final stretch. Cover letter, synopsis, typo-free manuscript and then a long drive to post it as it won't get there in time by post. Eek!
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Out celebrating 🍻 🏴 📖 -‘The Keeper of Aeons’ published by
@BrokenSpineArts
- dream press to work with. Bloody love my new book which you can order in haste from 👇
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Life goal! Poem in
@poetrywales
- I’ll be celebrating today and raising a toast to editor
@ZoeBrigley
and all involved - as putting this mag together must be a hell of a job! Thanks for including me. I have three copies and will take pics of them out in the wild 🙏 🏴
@LitWales
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For
#TopTweetTuesday
and host
@timrugby13
, a poem I wrote last night.
Look forward to reading today’s poems this evening. Have a great day Tim 🙌 - best 👍
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43,000 words on the novel.
Over half way. Send power drinks, snacks and daffodils ☀️ 🌼 💪
Going to smash it out in spring 🤞
#writing
#novel
#writerslife
#poet
#poetrycommunity
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NEWS 🔥🦴I have a pamphlet out this month and it commemorates a hugely significant centenary in Wales. Hot on the heels of 'The Keeper of the Aeons' published by
@BrokenSpineArts
, there'll be 'Paviland: Ice and Fire'. It's almost 200 yrs since the discovery of 'Red Lady'.
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#Poetrytwitter
- my mother Kathryn has finished a
#poetry
scrapbook, which is the best idea ever for literary buffs - take a look at this 🤩 People who’ll like this immediately -
@deuxiemepeau
@SeaGoatScreams
@vicklbennett
@Rhona_Greene
@Andrewraywill
@Geppy80
@merril_mds
etc.
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This face is the face of - I’m reading with Matthew Hollis
@Cheltpoetfest
in April. I don’t want to bore anyone with anxieties over imposter syndrome but now I actually have to choose poems and practice to deliver to a church full of people. I’m not gulping at all, honest! 😮
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I’m finishing off a book on Robert Graves and Wales/ Celticism for
@UniWalesPress
with an autumn deadline! Wish me luck. It’s been in the pipeline for some time.
@RobertGravesSoc
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Writing in action. 37K words of the novel down.
I looked up novel length and I'm 1,000 words off the length of Heart of Darkness. That's where the comparison with Conrad ends - lol - but I'm excited about this & feel the work will engage people on a deep emotional level.🤞
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😮 Yes, I am overwhelmed and amazed to be supporting Matthew Hollis at
@Cheltpoetfest
in the ‘Earth House’ in-person event. Gobsmacked to be asked. I hope you can make it. 🤩
Massive thanks to
@AnnaSaund1
&
@ZoeBrooks2
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Happy new year lovely people - a few too many champagnes and g and ts.
❤️🔥 🖊️ 💎 🥂
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A poem written after separately speaking to two ex-service personnel. People open up to me, often about the worst things. Unforgettable conversations. Some poems need to be pithy.
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Merry Christmas to you all ❤️🔥 🕯️
May 2024 be a far better one. Hoping for some peaceful moments to process this year & hope to enjoy Christmas, mindful all the time of what is going on across the world - how let down we are by leaders and elites.
There are so many good people
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Life goal achieved by being published with
@poetrywales
with an interview/ poem. This poem about diabetes, pain and salvation was partly inspired by
@JohnMcCullough_
and
@NatHolborow
’s inventive writing (and the latter’s writing about diabetes). Thanks to Peter and
@ZoeBrigley
🙌
How did the Catholic Church, diabetes, haiku, and 'the temporality and limitations of the body' come together to create a poem? Find out in
#HowIWriteAPoem
with
@MatthewMCSmith
💉🕊
[Content warning for trypanophobia/fear of needles]
Read here:
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This is ‘Gaia’, a poem about a conversation with my youngest when she was little. I was drawn into a fantastical world and we went on an adventure. I wrote this slightly in the style of the ‘Charlie and Lola’ stories by Lauren Child. Thanks
@TopTweetTuesday
and
@RogerHare6
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For
#TopTweetTuesday
a share, once more, of my poem ‘Sea Ballet’ in the latest edition of
@GreenInkPoetry
Thanks to the mag and also to TTT host
@RyanGibbsWriter
and anyone who reads it 🌊 ❤️
#poetry
#writingcommunity
🙌
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My second book has been in the pipeline for 4 years, since ‘Origin: 21 Poems’. The bar will be raised higher with
@BrokenSpineArts
who have fantastic production values and a cool team 😎 The art work from an Instagram artist is 🤩 🤩 🤩, just you wait!… ✨
#poetry
📣 ANNOUNCEMENT 📣
Delighted to be publishing Welsh poet
@MatthewMCSmith
’s eagerly-awaited next collection of
#poetry
and prose. It will be out of this world ✨ 🚀 🧑🚀 🌙
#writingcommunity
#poetrytwitter
@blackboughpoems
Coming winter 2022!
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Ok, shock of my life - my
#poetry
editor
@alanparry83
is a shocking 7ft 1 in real life. Amazed to realise my friend of 6 years is a giant. Alan is pictured with his Dad Glyn.
#roadtrip
@BrokenSpineArts
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Updated my writing page. Started the publishing game at 40 & it adds up if you keep at it. Iron will and persistence and a bit of self-belief. I know brilliant people who've given up after a few submissions as it's knocked their confidence. Keep going
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Ok, so I don’t post much family stuff on Twitter but here’s the grand-dame of the Bough, my mother, Kath. She got me into poetry by introducing me to Dylan Thomas and The Doors in my teens (hippy Mum). She can answer most questions on University Challenge…scary clever! 😉
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Content warning - grief poem. It’s almost the 9th yr of my Dad passing through cancer. He was 62. This poetic journey is harrowing - sometimes we shouldn’t forget what our loved ones have gone through.
Thanks 🙏 to
@Heroin_Chic_Mag
- 3 poems at ...
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It’s 4 years since winning the RS Thomas Poetry prize at
@cybifestival
- had about 3 followers on Twitter and hadn’t published anything before - saw a competition on the internet and sent it in expecting nothing to
@glynfedwards
@ness_owen
Martin Daws and
@KarenAnkers1
💫
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Tomorrow, I have an alternative lunch break experience - going in to a local primary school to speak to children about the Red Lady of
#Paviland
on the 200 year anniversary of William Buckland's discovery. More than I bargained for - an assembly with 120 kids! Wish me luck!
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Woke up to a three poem acceptance this morning after submitting two days ago. This calls for a Welsh Rugby gif.
#poetrytwitter
🏴
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For
@TopTweetTuesday
& our esteemed host
@KarloSevilla2
my 21 word poem ‘A Garden at a Stately Home’. Not easy to write in so few words and try to max up the imagery! Thanks Karlo for hosting! 🌹 🇵🇭
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🖋 💎 Super appreciate
@InkSweatTears
and all the votes and comments about my poem, which was in part an attempt to capture the vulnerability of men within the sometimes emotional claustrophobia of what is expected in male cultures, especially the trap of machismo 🙏 💪
'It actually made me cry. Powerful poem.'
Huge Congratulations to
@MatthewMCSmith
whose poem 'Sometimes, a Man Could Cry' is the IS&T Pick of the Month for May 2023. To revisit the poem and for more voters' comments go to
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Blown away to meet the rock star that is
@AnnaSaund1
at
@Cheltpoetfest
. Wow factor! Brilliant poet and arts organiser 🤩 🤩 🤩
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Writing in memory of my father who died almost ten years ago. ‘Abba Father’ is an expression from The Bible - a cry to God, the Father. Thanks to
@barrenmagazine
for publishing some time back.
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For
#TopTweetTuesday
a short piece publ. with
@BarrenMagazine
- 'Abba Father' - about my Dad. Emotional content warning.
'Her fingers are a hush of prayers; she cannot hear his whisper from dried, pursed lips. He is the light of the world, candling low.'
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I've been asked to interview poets for a big press. Yep, you really had to politely ask me? Could've just instructed me, there and then... I will not do this while wearing a onesie, I promise. LOL.
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Thanks to
@heretic101
@mariiellis
@katetnorth
@jackbedell
and
@1annecasey
for their testimonies about my poetry book. Also to
@SeaGoatScreams
@wainwrightlj
and
@luaz_poet
for proofreading 👌 💕 🖊
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A dream
#poetry
acceptance this evening. Joyful screaming. Waaahhhhhhhhhhh. Sorry. Not sorry.
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Cheers to the
@blackboughpoems
team and all the amazing poets that are part of a lovely, inspiring global community starting from
#Wales
🏴 . More exciting times ahead. Love the new book ‘Dark Confessions’, love
#TopTweetTuesday
, love everyone, peace to all ✌️ 💎
#poetry
#writing
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🔥 Blown away to read of this ‘Best of the Net’ nomination. Writing ‘Teithio/ Journeys’ about Swansea, Gower, childhood and the Welsh landscape was the best, topped off by being edited by
@frede_kenter
, a gentle genius. Off to the shop to get some beer. Well done to all 🍻 🎉 🔥
Announcing our first BOTN nominations. TY to our contributors in all series -- Such gorgeous work! We agonized to make these choices. Congrats:
@MatthewMCSmith
@JennyMitchellGo
@HRMsuzuki
@upfromsumdirt
@jpiudik
@st_somatic
@AnnaSaund1
@maryfrancesness
@BunkongTuon
@DavidLONan1
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For
@TopTweetTuesday
and the theme of struggle ‘Bitter Fruit’ 🙏 thanks for reading and all the best to our rockstar host
@LouLouMach
🔥 🔥 🔥
#poetry
#writing
#writingcommunity
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MASSIVE news - I have a place on the 2024 London Marathon raising money for
@WellChild
who provide specialist nurses and home adaptations for children with disabilities. I will be updating my page and am aiming to raise £2,500. Love ya all. 🏃♂️Wish me luck!
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Some people like my Dad poems so here’s ‘Origin’. 👶 ☀️
@TopTweetTuesday
@SaraswatiNagpal
#poetry
#writing
#fatherhood
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On Sunday, I travelled to Llangennith to join Dai Fry’s
@thnargg
’s family & friends to honour him. Incredibly moving to see his ashes scattered at Burry Holms and to hear his poems read in the elements. So fitting, a perfect pagan’s place 🌊
@blackboughpoems
#TopTweetTuesday
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Content warning - references to cancer and sickness. ‘Your Rosary Broke’, a poem about my father, published by
@Heroin_Chic_Mag
❤️🔥
Sharing on
@TopTweetTuesday
and host
@ellierees23
. Thank you for hosting.
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Looking forward to spending a summer off work with my wife Emma.
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On a coastal run last night and these fast-rippling wave pulses reminded me of the aquatic energy of
@SeaGoatScreams
’ poetry. Stopped me in my tracks. Hope the Seagoat’s wording the waves on the other side of the Ocean 🌊 🐐 🖊 ☀️ 🪄
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Yes. In poetry, we examine our traumas, lay bare our anxieties, roll out our bones and flesh for inspection. Yet it is so much more than this. The human spirit is vast. We reflect, we yearn, we search. We slip our skin and reach outwards, shedding the self.
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Shooting from the hip - an article on calling myself a ‘poet’ at 40 yrs old and various thoughts on the poetry game.
‘I was out of touch but had drawers full of poems from 25 years of writing’.
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A disturbing poem ‘Osseous’ in the Christmas-winter edition where the poetic voice is utterly diminished after a ‘season of reckoning’. A haunting poem crafted with a scalpel.
Stunning work by poet
@eamoody1
boosted for
#TopTweetTuesday
and
@jenlareine
🌙 ❄️
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For
#TopTweetTuesday
, this is ‘Frost’ from my book.
@mariiellis
said of this ‘
@MatthewMCSmith
’s poetry elevates real events to ethereal landscapes - where cars crawl through a galaxy of stars…’
Thanks
@ArthurLWood
for hosting this weekly, global
#poetry
day.
@blackboughpoems
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So I come home on Sunday afternoon after taking one of my daughters to Rugby … to this.
Thanks to Mrs Bough 🙏 x 🤩
@AlanParry83
@BrokenSpineArts
😮 😯
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A poem ‘Beauty’ from my collection about a beautiful baby girl that didn’t make it
@blackboughpoems
#TopTweetTuesday
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The main problem with poetry (as I see it, anyway) is that it’s so poorly advertised, root & branch. There are a lot of publishers that do it well but so many new collections seem to fizzle out after a couple of weeks. It’s pretty sad. All that effort ... & then v poor publicity.
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Noticed a fair few unhappy
#poets
out there this week. A thread with some thoughts about freedom as a writer and shedding a sense of failure ~ that feeling of not measuring up👇
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A new poem exploring masculinity and mental health - a subject ever on the increase. Thanks to
@InkSweatTears
for this platform. 🙏
Matthew M. C. Smith writes a touching poem, tightly constructed and evocative, confronting destructive gendered expectations that can dictate how men often suppress their emotions. Read ‘Sometimes, a Man Could Cry’ here:
#PoemADay
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Rather special… 🧚♀️ 🌙 🧚 ✨
For
@TopTweetTuesday
and host
@Andrewraywill
a
#poem
by my daughter Ms. Annie Smith (aged 8) ‘We all have Fairies’.
We worked on this earlier and found a beautiful image as backing. Thanks for reading.
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#Gower
yesterday. Perhaps 13 miles walked with my 12 yr old daughter. Laughter and chat all the way. At one point she stopped, turned to the sun, opened her arms wide and uttered the word ‘zen’ with a big smile on her face!
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ANNOUNCING: a new project I’m curating with
@BrokenSpineArts
- welcome to ‘The Codex’ - an online platform showcasing contemporary writing. 🖊⌨️💎
#comingsoon
#zeitgeist
#writingcommunity
#poetry
@AlanParry83
@BOLDArtsZine
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Three poem acceptance today. Thank you very much 🏴
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So this happened today, completely unexpectedly…
The two female rabbits we were sold a year ago produced 5 adorable micro bunnies. A shock-surprise!
🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 🐰 😮
Fingers and toes crossed they’re all healthy and things go fine. No more surprises though please!
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Last year, when I published the
@blackboughpoems
anthology ‘Freedom-Rapture’, dedicated to
#JimMorrison
my eldest daughter, aged 11, shyly slid this
#poem
to me. I was amazed and published it in what is one of my very favourite BB books, available on Amazon. Well done Freya x
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May have a publisher for my second collection… I’ve not sent it off many times but a press has expressed interest and I’ll wait to hear from them. 🤞
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A late night poem for you.
‘The Soft Fall of Midnight’ ✨ 🦊
Rarely use half-rhyme.
Hope you like it.
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As of this morning, I have 2 separate manuscripts out there for editorial consideration with publishers. I can't quite believe it as it's a beautiful slog to get to a point of collating your work. Whether or not it's 'good' is immaterial - just to reach that point is worth it.
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Blown away by my book launch yesterday for ‘The Keeper of Aeons’. Family, friends, poet friends, new friends and a bit too much to drink 😂 A joyous experience and so many people to thank 🙏 👇
@MumbalesBar
@CovertoCoverUK
@BrokenSpineArts
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The work on the Christmas / winter edition will be wrapped up earlier than planned and more poems than expected will spill over to next year’s festive edition. Diagnosed with diabetes - awaiting results on which type - and need to focus on this. Love you all.
❤️ 🩸 💉
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For
#TopTweetTuesday
a poem previously shared and published by
@Heroin_Chic_Mag
- my father’s never far from my thoughts. Thanks to our star host
@heretic101
- Patrick Jones - for his insight and humility as he reads our poems. This is ‘Dying King’.
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It’s 12 years since my father Michael passed away from cancer. I’ll share a few writing pieces today remembering him. This is ‘Abba Father’ published with
@BarrenMagazine
The expression ‘Abba Father’ is biblical, a cry to God.
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Made some poetry submissions this week. Keeping the rhythm of sending your work off keeps the momentum and increases probability of getting published. Also makes you tougher to rejections as you are waiting on a lot of submissions, not just counting on a few. 💪🏻 🖊 💪🏻
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A few rejections, a few submissions this week, a truckload of poetry e-mails to respond to and more Christmas decorations to put up. The writing to do list is massive and appreciate many people's patience...
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This is ‘Anthropocene: The City’ published in
#deeptime
2. The speaker of the poem travels from the city into the desert.
Thx
@IrisAnneLewis
, host of
#TopTweetTuesday
@blackboughpoems
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A Jesus in the wilderness
#poem
for
@TopTweetTuesday
- this was included in
@blackboughpoems
‘Freedom/Rapture’ which
@KariFlickinger
helped to edit 💫
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When I started the
#litmag
gig I never thought I’d edit and produce a book, then sell it and get book of the month in America. It’s wild - just a guy with a laptop and a smartphone.
@eastridgereview
@Andrewraywill
and
@dana_a_knott
- appreciation! 😎
@SeaNettleInk
@deuxiemepeau
💎 July's
#featuredbook
by
@blackboughpoems
💎 It "contains finely crafted works with language and deep imagery that surprise and delight" From
@tinywrenlit
editor
@dana_a_knott
's review of editor
@MatthewMCSmith
's
#poetry
Christmas and Winter Volume 2 👇
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Hit the big 4-5 today and I’m glad to say in my prime 💪 Anyone needing the secret to everlasting youth, look no further. It’s the poetic lifestyle … and the ability to transform from a massive truck to a badass robot.
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You can pre-order my next
#book
‘The Keeper of Aeons’, with
@BrokenSpineArts
- early-birds can get a bookmark and a handwritten
#poem
in a bargain bundle.
📖 ✨ 📄 🖊 🌏 🧑🚀 🚀 🌊 🌋 🛰 🪐 🏔 🌊 🏴 👇
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This fearless little one came right up to me today and I am convinced, against all rational judgment, it was a sign. Just had a strong feeling.
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Hi
@TaraSkurtu
and the
#InternationalPoetryCircle
. After about 6 takes, I could just about bear watching this one back!! A poem called ‘Origin’ about the birth of my daughter. Hope everyone is safe and well.
#Poetrycommunity
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Insomnia helped me write this Christmas poem for
@TopTweetTuesday
and host
@RegineEbner
. Close to this week's brief, I hope, although it will become a longer piece. I was thinking of Dylan Thomas's house and Norman Rockwell's Christmas art. Thanks Regine and the crew!
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I’ll never forget launching my book ‘The Keeper of Aeons’ this evening with
@BrokenSpineArts
- a great turnout of brilliant poets and an appreciative audience. It was a blast - the open mic quality was awesome. 🎙 you can get the book at
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For
@TopTweetTuesday
with host
@waveatthetrain
~ Kate Dowling ~ here is my
#poem
‘Cherry Blossoms’, which are on their way soon with the advent of spring ☀️ Thanks for reading x
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I’m back 😉 A few rejections recently but I have two poems and a piece of creative non-fiction accepted for print anthologies soon. ✨
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First
#poetry
acceptance of the year. 100% record! 💪
1/1 😆
A poem about one of my grandfathers, God bless ‘im.
Otherwise nursing a tiny hangover 🥂
Happy new year, once more, to you all 😘
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Hi
@macgregor_andy
, host of
#TopTweetTuesday
- here’s one of my poems ‘Beacons’ from volume 1 of the latest
@FeversOf
bumper edition. Thanks for reading and thanks to
@DavidLONan1
and HilLesha O’Nan for putting so much work in. 💎 🙏
#poetry
#wales
miss the
#breconbeacons
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