TopTweetTuesday
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Weekly poetry platform run by @blackboughpoems - every Tuesday, imagist/ imagistic poems only that are 20 lines or less
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We’re back on 3rd September. Challenge for you in the meantime - for sharing on 3rd Sept - read one of the original imagists and write a response in some way to their work. Aldington, Hulme, Amy Lowell, Pound, H.D. Whoever you like. Not imitation, pastiche, a crib. Your voice!
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Check out the guidance on the new
@TopTweetTuesday
- a platform repurposed towards
#imagist
and imagistic
#poetry
less than 20 lines.
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There’ll be no
@TopTweetTuesday
this week. As a mark of respect to our friend
@KariFlickinger
, who passed away recently - we’re taking a pause to remember her and read her work. If you’d like to know more about Kari, please click on the link 🕊 ❤️ 🌹
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Another memorable example of precise, imagistic
#poetry
with subtle shifts by
@DeeringRachel
that was a finalist in
#BBmicro
and published in the
@blackboughpoems
#Christmas
&
#winter
edition. 💎
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A break for the summer for
@TopTweetTuesday
- back in September 😎 💤 🏖 We’ve had incredible involvement from writers and readers in 2023 and now it’s time to speed up with a lot of projects and get refreshed. Gratitude to all the hosts & contributors. See you in September 🎸 🍹
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The new TopTweetTuesday - read carefully! We start back on Tuesday 11th January…
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📣 Our
@TopTweetTuesday
host this work is Oxford-based
#poet
@CorinnaBoard
, who recently had three pieces published in an anthology of nature poems by
@theblackcatpp
and is currently working on her first pamphlet 🖊 💎 say ‘hi’ to Corinna with an emoji 🙌
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Wake up! ☀️ 🛌 🍳 🧇 The news is that
@RogerHare6
is readying himself for another stint at hosting
@TopTweetTuesday
tomorrow. Read our pinned tweet for guidance on the new TTT!
#Poems
up to 20 lines and imagistic please!
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Congratulations to our
@TopTweetTuesday
@PushcartPrize
nominations. Such a challenging process to decide but delighted to announce the following nominees... 🍾🎉🥂
@helen_laycock
@mishiepoet
@KDonnelly79
@suchiswriting
@FrewSmith
(2nd time by our press)
@PhillipaTrelfo1
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We’re having a summer break from
@TopTweetTuesday
~ contest results to finalise, editions to get done with
@blackboughpoems
& personal writing. Thx so much for making it a special event each week. Enjoy your holidays and see you in September
🍹📚 ☀️ ❤️ 🛥 🖊 😎
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This week’s host is emerging
#poet
@IvorDaniel
who lives between Cheltenham and Gloucester. Ivor is a massive fan of
@Cheltpoetfest
and attends most of their online events. Give it up for Ivor 👏… and Cheltenham Poetry fest (which we all love ❤️). Get your imagistic poem ready!
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🎉 💃 We’ve broken 1,000 followers on the new, imagist
@TopTweetTuesday
platform. The support and involvement is intense & beautiful. How we like
#poetry
. To celebrate, drop an unpublished imagistic poem, 20 lines or less below and we’ll publish at least 3 of them this year 🎈🎊
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This week’s
@TopTweetTuesday
host - another exciting writer! 🔥
Catherine Redford
@C_Redford_
is a poet, editor, researcher, and tutor from the West Midlands. She’s an editor at
@DustmagPoetry
and is a member of the
@TheEmmaPress
Birmingham Editorial Reading Group.
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The winter queen is back in all her frosty finery 👸 to host
@TopTweetTuesday
-
@Rhona_Greene
is a
@PushcartPrize
-nominated writer from Dublin. Check the guidance in our pinned tweet! Keep them
#imagist
and 20 lines max 💫
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Amazing poem alert 🚨 👶
Dear
@SaraswatiNagpal
I hope you enjoy
@TopTweetTuesday
. I'm posting this poem because it's in my new book which has just been released, and also
because I know
@MatthewMCSmith
likes it!
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This week’s
@TopTweetTuesday
host comes to us from the Sonoran
#desert
- it’s the delightful and talented
@RegineEbner
reading your
#imagist
#imagistic
poems 💫 🏜 🤩 🐍 🖊 🌎 🧑🏿💻👨💻👩🏾💻📲 🌵 🇺🇸
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@PushcartPrize
nominations from
@TopTweetTuesday
- congrats 🥂 to
@dandugwriter
💫
Rebecca Hooper 💎
@ri_collins
🏅
@macgregor_andy
🌙
@Rhona_Greene
💃
@AnnaSaund1
🥂
congrats - your
#poems
are off to New York! ✈️ 🇺🇸
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✒️SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITY 📲--- next week on
@TopTweetTuesday
, post one
#imagist
#poem
to submit to a bijou online edition, guest edited by Kitty Donnelly
@KDonnelly79
. Kitty will choose her favourite poems and curate the edition. Check the guidance below🌍
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EXCITING 📣 The winner & runners up of the Christmas-winter poetry contest judged by
@RichlyEvocative
&
@SeaNettleInk
💫
Congrats to Welsh writer
@EmmaSBaines
for gaining the top spot! Well done
@Ammonites_Stars
@MilesHovey
@GJGreenlea
@EDuffieldFuller
@SamEgelstaff
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A lavender field needs watering before the poems get written.
Our host this week is the award winning
@parthianbooks
Welsh poet, Rae Howells
@raehowells
who’s previously sub edited two
@blackboughpoems
editions. Let’s give Rae a massive welcome
#poetrycommunity
🏴 🌎 ✨ 🖊 💎 🐝
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Our
@TopTweetTuesday
host
@LouLouMach
is looking forward to imagist/ imagistic poems on the themes of: poverty, struggle, disadvantage, solidarity, hope. 20 lines max/ 120 words
You can pick up her collab. book ‘The Words Of Others Are All We Have’ with Louise or
@hedgehogpoetry
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Today, our host is Cardiff writer
@marcellenewbold
who is reading the poems and collating her favourite for our
@blackboughpoems
summer edition 🤩 😎 🏴 🌍 say hi to Marcelle 👋
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We’ve always hesitated to use this word but
@TopTweetTuesday
has gone near-‘viral’ today with 1000s of views of poems, 1000s of interactions, new follows of poets, budding poetic friendships & exposure. Worth the effort!
@PoeticAdept
is a brilliant host
🔥 🔥 🔥
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We must say a massive thanks to
@helen_laycock
for her stint yesterday as
@TopTweetTuesday
host - such perceptive reflections on your
#poems
THANK YOU 🙏 ⭐️ 💫 ☄️
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Our poet in the spotlight this week is Cardiff’s Julian Cason
@hool415
with Toby the Westie in tow.
Challenge - imagistic poem, 40 words max on …
~ Endings, send-offs and ghosts. 👋 👻
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🙏 ‘All you ask for on your last Earth night is a glass of water’ 🙏
A photo of
@ri_collins
with her Mum ‘97/ ‘98. Briony misses her mother and has paid tribute to her with these outstandingly moving
#poems
😢
#WritingCommunity
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On
@TopTweetTuesday
host
@MatthewMCSmith
will be joined by co-host Pixie Smith 🐶 Pixie is the deputy editor of Black Bough, vetting all submissions. She guards the Bough with a little but fierce bark.
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Our host this week is Jersey poet Sandra Noel
@sandrajnoel
- please follow her 🔥
Sandra’s challenge is
- 30 words max
- theme of water.
- Inventive, imagistic, metaphorical poem - at least one compound word
- a highly unusual simile.
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We never announce
@TopTweetTuesday
hosts so early but super excited to have
@jamesmcconachi1
hosting next week from Spain. Get your castanets out! Imagist poems, 20 lines max for this hugely talented writer, who is published by
@blackboughpoems
and
@iambapoet
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We're sure that TTT host Julian Day responded to all the poems this week despite wobbly algorithms hiding poems.
@JulianD86666247
was brilliant and is a feature poet in our next open mic and THE feature poet for the next online edition. THANK YOU 🙏🔥
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While
@RogerHare6
reads your
#poems
TTT mogul
@MatthewMCSmith
indulges in the big kid thing at the Dylan Thomas park - Cwmdonkin.
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Kicking off the * new *
@TopTweetTuesday
, a
#poetry
platform specifically dedicated to 21st century
#imagism
, it’s Welsh
#writer
,
@blackboughpoems
editor and guv’nor of TTT
@MatthewMCSmith
🙌
Follow the new TTT, read the guidance and do some homework/ refreshing on imagism
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When
@oormilaprahlad
is not writing or painting, she is busy cooking for family and friends. For Onam, the Malayali harvest festival, she cooks a spread every year, with food served on banana leaves.
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Guest editor and
@TopTweetTuesday
Kitty Donnelly crushes a life goal with this superb achievement - the Yeats prize
@KDonnelly79
🤩
Came 2nd in the Yeats Thoor Ballylee Poetry Competition & had the most amazing welcome from the organisers, poets, Yeats’ lovely granddaughter Caitriona & judge Mary Madec. Feel on top of the world
@YeatsThoor
@IndigoDreamsPub
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‘my sins evaporate in half-light’ - our dynamic host
@PoeticAdept
with ‘where do I pray’ - beautiful poem 🤩 🍏 🌲 ☀️ 👄 🌊
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Next week’s challenge on
@TopTweetTuesday
We’re going even tighter and more focused this week to ensure the brief is hit with every contributing poet.
Get writing!!
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‘the fire and flood of nostalgia’ 🔥 🌊
‘The Escape’ by Louise Machen
@LouLouMach
@hedgehogpoetry
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This Tuesday’s host has an ekphrastic poetry challenge for you. A 50 word max imagistic poem inspired by one of his photos. We look forward to you hosting
@aperrincycling
. Make your poem and its metaphors/ similes / features, inventive and startling!
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Time to share a sample of our host
@folkheartpress
's
#poetry
. Please give Karen Pierce Gonzalez a boost after a day of so much support from Karen to the poets of TopTweetTuesday.
#writing
#writingcommunity
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‘The castle’s finger/ beckoned jaggedly’ 🏰
‘the wind bandaging the towers’ 🌬️
A magnificent poem by this week’s host
@SamRhydderch
from ‘Rockclimbing in Silk’
@SerenBooks
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One of our favourite
#writers
returns to hosting
#TopTweetTuesday
this week. Marian Christie, originally from Zimbabwe, will be responding to your imagist/ imagistic poems from beautiful Tunbridge Wells. Here’s
@marian_v_o
outside Drum Castle. Check our pinned tweet for guidance
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Next week on
@TopTweetTuesday
~ it’s ‘Best of the Net’ nominated writer
@ITattum
back in the hosting role 🤩
Ian’s challenge: up to 20 lines (120 words maximum) on the theme of maps/ travel/ expedition 🗺️ ⛰️ 🏝️ 🚶♂️ 🧗♀️ 🏜️ 🏕️ 🌳 ❄️
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Writer Letitia Jiju
@eaturlettuce
speaks five languages: English, French, Arabic, Hindi & Malayalam. She hopes to learn Sanskrit someday. Leti's verbal agility is clearly evident in her
#imagistic
, inventive writing, which is why she is hosting TTT this week!
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Poetry royalty returns to TopTweetTuesday this wk. Delighted to announce
@hedgehogpoetry
author Margaret Royall
@RoyallMargaret
as the host for your imagist
#poems
. While you prep up (check pinned tweet), make sure you check out Margaret's writing website
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If Twitter is still with us on Tuesday, we’d like you to post your favourite
@TopTweetTuesday
#poem
that you’ve posted * this * year - the guidelines on the pinned tweet will remain to the sinking of the ship.
@MatthewMCSmith
will give boosts at lunchtime and evening
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Hosting the new,
#imagist
@TopTweetTuesday
(week 2) is poet
@giovmacpoet
, who has had lengthy careers as an actor & a journalist. She began to write poetry five years ago and her first collection will be released this April with The Museum of Loss and Renewal Publications. 🌟 💫
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Fabulous, forthcoming chapbook with
@blackboughpoems
- poems and CNF by M.S. Evans
@SeaNettleInk
a former host of
#TopTweetTuesday
, a
#SilverBranch
feature writer and a sub editor of the Christmas/ winter edition. Also an editor at the marvellous
@IcefloeP
🌟 ❄️ 💫
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📱 ⚡️ NEWS JUST IN 🎥 👩🏫
We resume
@TopTweetTuesday
this week with a distinguished broadcaster & poet, who is also shortlisted in the Dai Fry Award 🔥 Lesley Curwen
@ElCurwen
has been a
#broadcaster
on
#BBC
programmes such as
@BBCr4today
and
@Moneybox
and
@BBCWorldBiz
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This week’s host made her Black Bough debut in the winter anthology.
Give it up for Edinburgh writer Laura Cooney
@lozzawriting
🏴 📚 🖊️ 📕 📖 🌊 ⛰️ get your imagist/ imagistic poem ready, 20 lines max with alt text when you post your poem!
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Next week 4.7.23 we have a submission day for a summer online edition. Post one brand new imagistic poem, 20 lines max. They must be unpublished but you can repost one of your past
@TopTweetTuesday
poems too. Our guest editor is
@marcellenewbold
. This is not Marcelle 🏴 👇
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This week on
@TopTweetTuesday
we go from west Wales
@SamRhydderch
🤩 to south East Wales to another super poet. Welcome to the MC role on our imagistic
#poetry
platform, the wonderful Ellie Rees
@ellierees23
, author of ‘Modest Raptures’ with
@BrokenSpineArts
🏴 🥂 🖊️ 💎
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Our unsuspecting winner of yesterday’s
@TopTweetTuesday
- the favourite poem of host
@LouLouMach
-
@PoetBex
We don’t do this every week but why not shake things up and have a bit of fun?
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In preparation for a second stint as
@TopTweetTuesday
host, Lesley Curwen has been indulging in her two hobbies - collecting sea glass and sailing. Make sure you follow the guidance on the pinned tweet, use Alt text, and follow
@ElCurwen
🌊 🖊 💎
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Huge thanks, once again, to our
@TopTweetTuesday
host Giovanna MacKenna
@giovmacpoet
who was so detailed and efficient with her comments. This new platform is refreshed each week by astute
#poets
like G. We wish her the best for her forthcoming collection 💎 💫 ☄️
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Hero of the hour, of the day, across all time zones - from the Philippines, to Ireland to Canada, to a living room in Wales 🏴 our very own guest host
@jamesmcconachi1
who has been brilliant today!!! A toast 🥂 🍻 🌎 🌏 🛰 🪐
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This week’s host would like an imagistic poem in 40 words or less on the topic of wonder OR weather.
Have fun and push your imagination. We like quirky, strange, unexpected, inventive.
See you on Tuesday.
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And your
@TopTweetTuesday
host this week is a scintillating writer - the multi-talented
@SaraswatiNagpal
A classical dancer of the form of Kathak, Saraswati performs and choreographs for stages and films.
🔥 🔥 🔥
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@TopTweetTuesday
takes us from Wales all over the world. This week, our host lives in Valderrobres, Teruel, Aragón, the poet
@jamesmcconachi1
, who has work at
@iambapoet
& Black Bough's 'Sound and Vision'. You know the score - 20 lines max and an imagist/ imagistic style only
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This week, we go to the Isle of Sheppey to bird-loving poet Sue Ibrahim
@SueImnw
- our latest guest host.
🐦 🦅 🦢
Theme this week.
Birds. Max word count: only 20 words
Keep it imagistic & inventive 🖊️ 💎
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A gift to one of the 85+
#poets
contributing to
@TopTweetTuesday
today - we bought an extra copy of
@ness_owen
’s ‘Mamiaith’ (Mother-Tongue) 🏴 recently, published by
@ArachnePress
. If you contributed a poem today, give this post a boost and we’ll choose one of you!
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It’s been a euphoric day for Lesley Curwen
@elcurwen
as
@TopTweetTuesday
host - every bit of fun as sailing her 44 year old Nicholson sailing boat. Brilliant job! Thanks so much for getting TTT back into shape! ⛵️ 🌊 🍾 🖊 ✍️ 🏊♂️ ☀️
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The relief of having a guest editor for the
@blackboughpoems
summer edition is palpable. Thank you
@ri_collins
. And thank you for such great support for
#poets
on
@TopTweetTuesday
today. What a great platform. Editor
@MatthewMCSmith
has the night off!
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The first anniversary of the proper
@TopTweetTuesday
Twitter handle and one year of it changing to its imagist focus! We hope it’s been a good year 🔥
#MyTwitterAnniversary
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Welcome to the hosting role this week - coming to us from France - it’s voice actor, translator and writer Jane Dougherty
@MJDougherty33
- get your metaphorical, imagistic poems, 20 lines max at the ready for our esteemed host!
Alt text is appreciated. 🖊️ 🌳 ❄️ 🦌
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Back in the hosting role is Swansea writer
@MatthewMCSmith
- responses to your 20 lines max, imagist poems tomorrow evening (UK). Post your poem and boost others! Enjoy & be inspired by the phenomenon that is
@TopTweetTuesday
! 🔥
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Laura Cooney
@lozzawriting
our host is published with
@press_roi
@_voidspace_zine
@backroompoetry
@paragraphplanet
@ParakeetMag
@TheDirigible
@SparePartsLit
@AusAuthora
@VineLeavesPress
@FromOneLine
@ShortStoryToday
@havehadhavehad
@TheUnconCourier
@NewNotePoetry
🔥 🔥 🔥
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'I sewed the sunlit patches of the day/ Into your hair,/ Carefully stitching the edges so they/
Did not fray'
Helen Openshaw, this week's TTT host
@Pocket_rhyme
who did a BRILLIANT JOB. Thank you for boosting the poems this week!
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From our
@TopTweetTuesday
host
@helen_laycock
- ‘Bloodless’
‘Pale geometry darkframed
in sugarwebbed capillaries’
Love the compound words.
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This week’s host!! 🪕 🖊 🇺🇸 🏴
Although a New Yorker by birth, Marc Woodward
@Marcomando
has been a lifelong resident of rural England. His writing draws from the rural West Country, often with a dark undercurrent - and a degree of wry humour.
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Next week’s
@TopTweetTuesday
#poetry
host. Margaret Royall
@RoyallMargaret
is back with style with this shelfie from Lindum Books, Lincoln.
@LindumBooks
@hedgehogpoetry
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A massive thanks to this week's host Paul Brookes
@PaulDragonwolf1
who was so attentive to a massive amount of poems. Check out this interview with Paul by
@BrokenSpineArts
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Hosting
@TopTweetTuesday
is
@MatthewMCSmith
(yes, me 😉) this is me on holiday about 15 years ago in Sorrento! While we enjoy each others’ response poems, I’ll post some random photos and facts today 🇮🇹 👇
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Consummate
#poet
@RegineEbner
has been warming up for hosting
@TopTweetTuesday
by writing in her backyard… desert 🖊 🏜 🌵 🐍 🇺🇸
Read our pinned tweet for what we look for on TTT. One poem from you that is visual, imagistic, haiku-esque in its impact, max 20 lines! 🎯
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Gratitude from so many of us to
@VWC_Writes
for hosting
@TopTweetTuesday
- it’s a huge job for 24 hours and Vikki did a brilliant job of commenting on and boosting our
#imagist
/ imagistic
#poems
Follow this poet/ musician 🖊 🎶
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Another blazing poetry fire ball ☄️ to host TopTweetTuesday this week. Welcome Colin Dardis
@purelypoetry
. Together with his wife Geraldine O'Kane (
@poet_okane
) Colin has hosted Belfast's Purely Poetry open mic night at
@CrescentArts
since 2011. Get your imagist
#poem
ready🌟 🎙
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First poem in this week on
@TopTweetTuesday
all the way from Wales?
For
@TopTweetTuesday
& our 20 word max, imagistic challenge, here is ‘I draw this day’, a summer/ sunrise poem. Had a go at iambic pentameter too.
Thanks to
@Alayanabeth
our host for this most brief, tough challenge!
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Hosting this week’s
@TopTweetTuesday
is writer
@AlanParry83
who has a chapbook on
#JimMorrison
out soon to celebrate the Lizard King’s 80th birthday. No theme this week but we wouldn’t mind imagistic poems 20 lines max that set the night on fire 🔥🦎 🤴
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Swansea based writer
@JamieWoods77
aka Boba ‘Sestet’ ( 😉) leads the line this week hosting
@TopTweetTuesday
. Here he is with
@blackboughpoems
publication ‘Afterfeather’. He’s also published in
@poetrywales
and Jamie has started
@punkdustpoetry
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On Valentine’s
@TopTweetTuesday
we have a modern-day Romeo-poet to host - say ‘Oh hi …O’ ♥️ to Preston Smith
@psm_writes
who is widely published and sub-edited our first Xmas edition and is a former TTT host.
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Congratulations to our finalists in the recent micro prose
#contest
judged by
@Glenn_A_Barker
@ElCurwen
1st 🥇
Highly commended
@VWC_Writes
@aperrincycling
@LisaFal
@guttedherring
@IrisAnneLewis
🔥
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‘A parade of jerry-rigged suns’ ☀️
‘No receipt is ever given after amen’ 🙏
Poems by
@TopTweetTuesday
host, Cardiff writer Julian Cason
@hool415
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Wishing
@SeaGoatScreams
a speedy recovery. Here’s ‘Southern Crossing’ by Ankh:
‘And up there, the crux of it all, those four bullroaring stars
Haere mai, their pointer song a hook
tugging south the waka, laden with stories
of silver fish, and earth so rich for growing’
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'Hunter's Moon' from Sarah Connor's
@sacosw
'The Poet Spells Her Name', shared for
@TopTweetTuesday
and host
@ellierees23
🦊🌙
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The Mach is back in the hosting seat of TopTweetTuesday 👑 💺 📱 ☕️ 🧇
@LouLouMach
has recently been published in
@AcropolisJourn
,
@Dreich25197318
,
@M_Star_Online
, Sound and Vision from
@blackboughpoems
. She is currently the featured poet
@eastridgereview
Louise Machen is 🔥
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We told you there’d be a surprise on
@TopTweetTuesday
and we have a corker. Retweet, like, to be in the mix for a
@SeaGoatScreams
signed postcard all the way from Aotearoa ✈️ 🌎 contributors to
@TopTweetTuesday
this week get a double chance!
@BooksFemme
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Hosting this week’s
@TopTweetTuesday
is one of our favourite desert poets
@RegineEbner
who will be casting her eye over your imagistic poems, especially those attempting this week’s challenge! Check out ‘Oxidised Pennies’ by the US writer.
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📣 Our 2nd winner of the
@TopTweetTuesday
1k followers contest, chosen by guest judge
@sacosw
is Sue Finch
@soopoftheday
. We can’t wait to publish this
#poem
in future 🏆 🎉 🎊
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A thank you once again to
@soopoftheday
for an amazing stint on
#Halloween
@TopTweetTuesday
this week 🙏 😊
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We’ll be taking a break from
@TopTweetTuesday
next week.
Time to pause and reflect.
See you soon.
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Next week's TopTweetTuesday challenge is as follows.
Make it new. An imagist retelling/ reinterpretation of a myth folktale or fairytale, as suggested by our mystery host. 50 words maximum. No more than three compound words (
@MJDougherty33
!!)
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Get your
#poems
all sharpened up for
@TopTweetTuesday
next week as we have a host from a mag looking for talent. And when you post your poem next week, why not also post a pic of 1 of your collections?
#books
📕
#editor
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After a late afternoon nap in the sunshine and a read
@RogerHare6
’s limbering up for the mental agility and sheer stamina of hosting
@TopTweetTuesday
but never underestimate this reader/ writer. Roger’s like a host every week 🔥 💪
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‘Show me how to punch the cold/ right in the centre of its stupid face’ 🐦 🌊
Jen Feroze
@jenlareine
won the Editors’ Second Prize in the
@magmapoetry
competition in 22/23 with ‘Boxing Day Swimmers’
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Nia Broomhall
@niaandthepoems
, today's TTT host, was Highly Commended in the
@WinPoetryFest
prize last year
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Our
#writing
challenge for Tuesday 12th March.
80 words max of imagistic, metaphorical poetry on the theme of escape, retreat or sanctuary.
At least 1 inventive, unusual simile.
Include a reference to a hardly known tint on a colour chart.
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Back in the host hotseat this holiday week is Vikki C
@VWC_Writes
, author of ‘Where Sands Run Finest’ and ‘The Art of Glass Houses’.
@darkwinterlit
@thealienbuddha
and what a poetry challenge this week!
Our challenge for this coming Tuesday, post a new poem inspired by - ‘Art as a form of resistance’.
Ten lines max of inventive, imagistic poetry! 👇
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The surrealist supremo of Surrey Julian Day
@JulianD86666247
is hosting
@TopTweetTuesday
this week. We’re looking for poetry that’s strange, mind-altering, a bit of the unexpected and uncanny - follow the guidelines on the pinned tweet & use alt text. 🌀
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Thank you for all the submissions yesterday on
@TopTweetTuesday
- guest editor
@ri_collins
will be selecting some for the summer edition. She can’t choose all the
#poems
so it’s a very tough ask/ task. We wish you well Briony. Thanks to all for your work and for generous support
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Our host this week, fresh from coffee and an R.S. Thomas collection, is
#poet
and
#editor
of the bright new literary star that is
@eastridgereview
- welcome to the role Andrew R. Williams
@Andrewraywill
🇺🇸 🖊
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