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Black Bough Poetry@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social |
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Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness’
‘The third day comes a frost, a killing frost’ ❄️
‘Wolsey’s farewell to his greatness’
#Shakespeare #poetry
#generalelection #GeneralElection24
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘Wherever you open this collection, a strange poetic music snakes its way into your ears.’ 🐍 🎶 🖊️ 🌳
A huge boost for @racheldeering.bsky.social with this review by poetic powerhouse Lesley Curwen
Please check out Lesley’s take on ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.lesleycurwenpoet.com/review-of-in...
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘Deering is someone who always brings us back to a higher contemplation, a true, natural, mystical and highly enigmatic nature poet’ 🤔
A review by Mab Jones of Buzz Mag Wales of 1 of the books of the summer, @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ 🤩
www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-j...
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘I don’t think I have ever considered a target audience’ 🖊️ 💎
Rachel Deering, author of ‘In the Shadow of Gods’, discusses her writing mindset in our interview at www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering @racheldeering.bsky.social
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Black Bough Poetry
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3 open mic places left for tonight on Zoom!
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘I think science is as deeply poetic and mysterious as any talking tree in a woodland’
@racheldeering.bsky.social on her spellbinding poetry book ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Ewan Lawrie,
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Sometimes, the postman brings joy in a packet...
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Black Bough Poetry
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Open Mic spots (3 poems/ 5 minutes) at our poetry party in Neath on Saturday 6th July - be part of something truly special with poetry stars for charity WellChild
Book your open mic or audience ticket now. Enquiries to our e-mail address or DM.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/black-boug...
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Black Bough Poetry
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Appearing at our charity poetry party in aid of children’s disability charity WellChild Taz Rahman @tazrahman.bsky.social You’ll be able to get his first collection ‘East of the Sun, West of the Moon’ with @SerenBooks at our event, signed.
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Book now
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Black Bough Poetry
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'This is poetry as theophysics, rendered with the precision of a scientist and the furor of a visionary.'
Dr Chris Laoutaris on @racheldeering.bsky.social poetry collection 'In the Shadow of Gods', must-have summer reading.
blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Math Jones
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Reading 'Longest Day' from In the Shadow of Gods, by @racheldeering.bsky.social, & @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, in the garden, and under a blue sky, as it happens, seems very fitting for the day...
Glad midsummer (or midwinter, for some).
#PoetrySky
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Black Bough Poetry
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Poetry marathon planning meeting with the one and only Polly Oliver - publicity guru and super poet for our fundraiser for WellChild
You can snap up an open mic spot (be quick!) at the gig here! Sat 6th July 🔥
www.eventbrite.com/e/9137577831...
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Black Bough Poetry
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Looking for poetic inspiration - a sublime holiday read? Look no further than the poets of Black Bough and our bijou collection ‘In Flight’ - it’ll blow your mind … but not your wallet. 🪽 ☀️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/in-flight-ed...
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Black Bough Poetry
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Due to popular demand we have an open mic on Zoom next Sunday 23rd June, 6.30pm, UK time.
We have some fantastic #poets joining. Please do come along. 🎙️
www.eventbrite.ie/x/black-boug...
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Math Jones
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A very pleasant afternoon.
#PoetrySky
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Black Bough Poetry
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What? Another online Zoom #poetry open mic with Black Bough. Yep, signing up now! Love the vibes and good to test my work. 🎫
Sunday 23rd June, 6.30pm. UK time.
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www.eventbrite.com/e/9206396269...
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Rhona Greene
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I’ll be reading!!!
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Black Bough Poetry
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Sign up on Eventbrite for our charity ticketed poetry party at The Welsh House Bar & Restaurant in Neath, South Wales, on Saturday 6th July 2024 12:30 til late in aid of @WellChild - open mic and audience tickets available!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...
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Black Bough Poetry
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Our Black Bough book of the month for June ‘24 is ‘Byways’ an anthology by @arachnepress.bsky.social - check out this review by Matthew M C Smith - as ever, there is strong Welsh representation in the anthology 🏴
👉 www.blackboughpoetry.com/book-reviews...
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Black Bough Poetry
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Amazing to be at no 9 in the British Poetry Amazon chart. Well done @racheldeering.bsky.social 🤩 thanks to all the discerning poetry fans!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Black Bough Poetry
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A brilliant evening celebrating @racheldeering.bsky.social’s work with open mic including @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social @merrildsmith.bsky.social @signemaene.com @rhonagreene.bsky.social and more
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Black Bough Poetry
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After last night's brilliant Zoom Open Mic, another opportunity this summer on Sunday 23rd June at 6:30PM, UK time.
Book your open mic/ audience ticket now!
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...
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‘There is an ancient mysticism that bleeds through this book’
Briony Collins @brionycollins.bsky.social on ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ by @racheldeering.bsky.social
You can get this sought-after book at
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Black Bough Poetry
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Our host this week on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter is another talent from Wales 🏴 David Hanlon is a Björk-loving confessional poet from Cardiff. His poetry explores themes of queerness, toxic masculinity, mental health, loss & change. He is inspired by art cinema, music, nature & existentialism.
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Black Bough Poetry
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Only a few poetry open mic spots left for this Wed evening!! Featuring @racheldeering.bsky.social
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Black Bough Poetry
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Only 5 more #poetry open mic spots left for next Wed evening!!
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Black Bough Poetry
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Stunning sunshine day at @hayfestival.bsky.social - Simon Armitage and Owen Sheers
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Black Bough Poetry
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Only 5 more #poetry open mic spots left for next Wed evening!!
www.eventbrite.ie/e/black-boug...
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Black Bough Poetry
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You can book this event in Cardiff organised by Dai Woolridge on 28th June with Storm Cecile and Connor Allen and more. Will be great to see you 🤩
Urbanwordsmiths.eventbrite.co.uk
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Black Bough Poetry
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Book now for our open mic evening online next Wednesday 5th June, featuring Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social - read your poems and connect with others. 🎫
www.eventbrite.ie/e/black-boug...
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘In the Shadow of Gods transports the reader into a wild and wonderful world seeped in myth, fairy-tale and folklore’
@corinnaboard.bsky.social on @racheldeering.bsky.social In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Black Bough Poetry
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A series of striking images Bex. Impactful!
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Bex Hainsworth
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A poem of struggle and hope, shared over on Twitter for @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social’s Top Tweet Tuesday. The host @louloumach.bsky.social chose this as her favourite poem of the day! 🎈
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Rachel Deering
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Please do consider buying my new poetry collection or giving it a review on Amazon or Goodreads. 👇
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Black Bough Poetry
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Tonight takes a surreal, beautiful turn with our ‘In flight’ edition back in the chart at number 9. Well done to guest editor Marcelle Newbold who MCd our launch evening a few weeks back. 🤩 only £5.50 in the UK. Get it - get inspired.
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘the precision of a scientist and the furor of a visionary’
Chris Laoutaris on @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ available with Black Bough. 🔪 🔥
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www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Rachel Deering
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Did anyone miss that I have a new collection out? Well, I do. It can be bought using the link below. 👇
‘Each piece creates a sensory realm exploring our bodies and desires, our weaknesses and will for agency’
Lou Machen on Deering’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
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blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Black Bough Poetry
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The Black Bough Open Mic on Zoom is BACK on Wed 5th June, 7pm (UK time).
And the best news is, Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social is back with a guest feature. Book your open mic and audience tix now. A few pay what you can open mic spots.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...
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Black Bough Poetry
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‘Each piece creates a sensory realm exploring our bodies and desires, our weaknesses and will for agency’
Louise Machen on Rachel Deering’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
@louloumach.bsky.social @racheldeering.bsky.social
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www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Black Bough Poetry
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Back tearing up the #poetry highway on TopTweetTuesday on Twitter this week is returning guest host Louise Machen 🔥 @louloumach.bsky.social
On TopTweetTuesday, we boost original, fresh imagist poems that are usually 20 lines max with prompt weeks.
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Black Bough Poetry
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The Black Bough Open Mic on Zoom is BACK on Wed 5th June, 7pm (UK time).
And the best news is, Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social is back with a guest feature. Book your open mic and audience tix now. A few pay what you can open mic spots.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-boug...
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Black Bough Poetry
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Matt Smith here! Excited to support this event as Guest Poet on July 16th with the dynamic Guinevere Clark with Steve Balsamo sponsored by Seventh Quarry, for Womens Aid🎙️ 🔥 book now!
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Matt Gilbert
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Ooh I have a new review - londongrip.co.uk/2024/03/lond...
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Matt Gilbert
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My local bookshop @booksellercrow has restocked & now has more (signed) copies of Street Sailing available. There's a recent review on LondonGrip londongrip.co.uk/2024/03/london… plus an in-depth interview with @PaulDragonwolf1 here tinyurl.com/bddbepk5 @blackboughpoems
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Matt Gilbert
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Proud to have three poems published here - after a couple of previous longlistings this is eighth time lucky. northerngravy.com/poems-by-mat...
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Rhona Greene
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Peeps the wonderful @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social is here!
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Black Bough Poetry
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High fives to all
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Black Bough Poetry
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Thank you! Good to be here
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Rachel Deering
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Shared from Twitter and Black Bough: ‘we are drawn quite intimately into the fabric and liquidity of nature… the mythical mysteries of wild places’ @ForwardPrizes nominated ‘In the Shadow of Gods’ by @DeeringRachel is out THIS Friday 🔥 🔥 🔥
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Rachel Deering
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Sharing from Twitter: ‘Perfect poem by @DeeringRachel in a collection filled with perfect poetry. Highly recommended read from @blackboughpoems 🌲💚’
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