Matthew M C Smith
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
January 4, 2026 at 2:56 PM
The artificial intelligence of humans. For #smallpoemsunday and its curator @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Thank you. 🧠
Thank you. 🧠
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 AM
The artificial intelligence of humans. For #smallpoemsunday and its curator @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
Thank you. 🧠
Thank you. 🧠
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📣 Want your poetry to appear in our next Christmas and winter anthology? Check out the following information on or call from 28th Jan to the 1st of Feb! 🎅
❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
January 3, 2026 at 11:04 PM
📣 Want your poetry to appear in our next Christmas and winter anthology? Check out the following information on or call from 28th Jan to the 1st of Feb! 🎅
❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
❄️ ⛄️ ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
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I’m enjoying the cold weather. I walk so much better. Here’s my poem Cold Repair from the Christmas & Winter Anthology @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Such a gorgeous book of poetry. I really recommend ❄️❄️❄️
December 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
I’m enjoying the cold weather. I walk so much better. Here’s my poem Cold Repair from the Christmas & Winter Anthology @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. Such a gorgeous book of poetry. I really recommend ❄️❄️❄️
January 1, 2026 at 1:01 PM
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As the year comes to a close, don't forget that the Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
December 31, 2025 at 10:30 PM
As the year comes to a close, don't forget that the Circle is always open. Submit a poem today. There's no fee and we promise a quick turnaround. Link to guidelines in bio. #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #CallForSubmissions #LitMag
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Our Christmas tree has some interesting decorations including this year’s Christening and Winter anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
December 31, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Our Christmas tree has some interesting decorations including this year’s Christening and Winter anthology from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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Listen to One Final Storm for 2025 on most podcast platforms including Spotify & Apple.
Featuring @mollytwomey.bsky.social Kevin Graham & Zita McGarry & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Happy New Year to you all & May you all Stay Bloody Poetic
open.spotify.com/episode/5mG3...
Featuring @mollytwomey.bsky.social Kevin Graham & Zita McGarry & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Happy New Year to you all & May you all Stay Bloody Poetic
open.spotify.com/episode/5mG3...
Spotify – Web Player
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December 31, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Listen to One Final Storm for 2025 on most podcast platforms including Spotify & Apple.
Featuring @mollytwomey.bsky.social Kevin Graham & Zita McGarry & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Happy New Year to you all & May you all Stay Bloody Poetic
open.spotify.com/episode/5mG3...
Featuring @mollytwomey.bsky.social Kevin Graham & Zita McGarry & @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social
Happy New Year to you all & May you all Stay Bloody Poetic
open.spotify.com/episode/5mG3...
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Happy New Year to you all! Thanks to everyone who has supported Black Bough poetry and I this year! All the poets, readers, volunteers, boosters and good people ♥️ love ya! Rock on 🎸
December 31, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Happy New Year to you all! Thanks to everyone who has supported Black Bough poetry and I this year! All the poets, readers, volunteers, boosters and good people ♥️ love ya! Rock on 🎸
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Happy New Year to my guiding stars
My one true North Star of Dublin Damien Donnelly @eatthestorms.com for steering me so graciously through my Storms Journal Odyssey & my Welsh Seren @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for my perch on the #SilverBranch @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social You lit up my year🤩
I❤️U🥂
My one true North Star of Dublin Damien Donnelly @eatthestorms.com for steering me so graciously through my Storms Journal Odyssey & my Welsh Seren @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for my perch on the #SilverBranch @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social You lit up my year🤩
I❤️U🥂
December 31, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Happy New Year to my guiding stars
My one true North Star of Dublin Damien Donnelly @eatthestorms.com for steering me so graciously through my Storms Journal Odyssey & my Welsh Seren @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for my perch on the #SilverBranch @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social You lit up my year🤩
I❤️U🥂
My one true North Star of Dublin Damien Donnelly @eatthestorms.com for steering me so graciously through my Storms Journal Odyssey & my Welsh Seren @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for my perch on the #SilverBranch @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social You lit up my year🤩
I❤️U🥂
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🔔 A special two-day submission window opens for next year’s Christmas and winter anthology but only, as a thank you, for those who have bought our anthology. We will have another general submission window quite soon!
🙏 🎅 🎄 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
#poetry #writing #poet
🙏 🎅 🎄 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
#poetry #writing #poet
December 31, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🔔 A special two-day submission window opens for next year’s Christmas and winter anthology but only, as a thank you, for those who have bought our anthology. We will have another general submission window quite soon!
🙏 🎅 🎄 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
#poetry #writing #poet
🙏 🎅 🎄 ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
#poetry #writing #poet
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Our first TopTweetTuesday on Twitter for 2026 will be, you guessed it, a challenge…
26 words (max) on the theme of kicking over the traces/ new beginnings/ reinvention.
As ever, focus on imagery, metaphor, invention.
Happy New Year! May next year be a kinder, more humane one.
26 words (max) on the theme of kicking over the traces/ new beginnings/ reinvention.
As ever, focus on imagery, metaphor, invention.
Happy New Year! May next year be a kinder, more humane one.
December 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Our first TopTweetTuesday on Twitter for 2026 will be, you guessed it, a challenge…
26 words (max) on the theme of kicking over the traces/ new beginnings/ reinvention.
As ever, focus on imagery, metaphor, invention.
Happy New Year! May next year be a kinder, more humane one.
26 words (max) on the theme of kicking over the traces/ new beginnings/ reinvention.
As ever, focus on imagery, metaphor, invention.
Happy New Year! May next year be a kinder, more humane one.
Getting ready at the cafe on the Golden Gate bridge to facilitate a 'Crafting Your Year in Poetry' workshop, starting in 50 minutes, online. A group of writers joining to focus on their poetry objectives for the next 12 months. My, it's chilly up here!
December 30, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Getting ready at the cafe on the Golden Gate bridge to facilitate a 'Crafting Your Year in Poetry' workshop, starting in 50 minutes, online. A group of writers joining to focus on their poetry objectives for the next 12 months. My, it's chilly up here!
Surely the inspiration behind the new monster in @netflix.com #Frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social? An experimentation with body makeup more than a weta workshop style prosthetics approach. I’d have preferred the latter but a strong remake, nevertheless.
#maryshelley
#maryshelley
December 30, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Surely the inspiration behind the new monster in @netflix.com #Frankenstein @realgdt.bsky.social? An experimentation with body makeup more than a weta workshop style prosthetics approach. I’d have preferred the latter but a strong remake, nevertheless.
#maryshelley
#maryshelley
'a crystal-white, elven world' ❄️
'vinyl crackle of carols' 🎶🎄
With the spirit of Christmas, a new poem 'A Christmas Bonus' for this week's TopTweetTuesday on Twitter and one of the themes, 'nostalgia'. 100 word limit was tough.
Look forward to reading/ hosting.
#poetry #Christmas
'vinyl crackle of carols' 🎶🎄
With the spirit of Christmas, a new poem 'A Christmas Bonus' for this week's TopTweetTuesday on Twitter and one of the themes, 'nostalgia'. 100 word limit was tough.
Look forward to reading/ hosting.
#poetry #Christmas
December 29, 2025 at 8:33 PM
'a crystal-white, elven world' ❄️
'vinyl crackle of carols' 🎶🎄
With the spirit of Christmas, a new poem 'A Christmas Bonus' for this week's TopTweetTuesday on Twitter and one of the themes, 'nostalgia'. 100 word limit was tough.
Look forward to reading/ hosting.
#poetry #Christmas
'vinyl crackle of carols' 🎶🎄
With the spirit of Christmas, a new poem 'A Christmas Bonus' for this week's TopTweetTuesday on Twitter and one of the themes, 'nostalgia'. 100 word limit was tough.
Look forward to reading/ hosting.
#poetry #Christmas
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If you've done the 'Crafting Your Year in Poetry' workshop, this is a refresher bootcamp planning your next 12 months with fresh ideas & tips!
Limited places. Book now. Wed Jan 7th, 6.30pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bootcamp-c...
Limited places. Book now. Wed Jan 7th, 6.30pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bootcamp-c...
Bootcamp - Crafting Your Year in Poetry (Stage 2)
Sign up for this workshop only if you have completed 'Crafting Your Year in Poetry' - we review progress & set new goals
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
If you've done the 'Crafting Your Year in Poetry' workshop, this is a refresher bootcamp planning your next 12 months with fresh ideas & tips!
Limited places. Book now. Wed Jan 7th, 6.30pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bootcamp-c...
Limited places. Book now. Wed Jan 7th, 6.30pm.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bootcamp-c...
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@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social takes us on a #Christmas shopping trip - the bustling streets of Swansea - in the 1980s (extract)
🏙️ 🎁 💝 🎄 🎅
Check out our Christmas-winter anthology.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
🏙️ 🎁 💝 🎄 🎅
Check out our Christmas-winter anthology.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
December 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social takes us on a #Christmas shopping trip - the bustling streets of Swansea - in the 1980s (extract)
🏙️ 🎁 💝 🎄 🎅
Check out our Christmas-winter anthology.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
🏙️ 🎁 💝 🎄 🎅
Check out our Christmas-winter anthology.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Reposted by Matthew M C Smith
Our themes for next Tuesday’s TopTweetTuesday.
On Twitter.
~ Nostalgia/ wistfulness ~
80 words max, imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse (no rhyme), no A.I. #poetry
On Twitter.
~ Nostalgia/ wistfulness ~
80 words max, imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse (no rhyme), no A.I. #poetry
December 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Our themes for next Tuesday’s TopTweetTuesday.
On Twitter.
~ Nostalgia/ wistfulness ~
80 words max, imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse (no rhyme), no A.I. #poetry
On Twitter.
~ Nostalgia/ wistfulness ~
80 words max, imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse (no rhyme), no A.I. #poetry
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A loyalty reward only for writers who have bought this year's Black Bough Christmas- Winter anthology. An exclusive submission window for next year's anthology on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
As ever, please read guidance closely!
blackboughpoetry.com/events
As ever, please read guidance closely!
blackboughpoetry.com/events
December 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
A loyalty reward only for writers who have bought this year's Black Bough Christmas- Winter anthology. An exclusive submission window for next year's anthology on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.
As ever, please read guidance closely!
blackboughpoetry.com/events
As ever, please read guidance closely!
blackboughpoetry.com/events
Reposted by Matthew M C Smith
Sign up now for ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’, a workshop to get focused as a poet for the next year. 👇 👇 👇
Tuesday 30th December at 5pm, UK time. 🔥 🖊️ ⏰
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...
Tuesday 30th December at 5pm, UK time. 🔥 🖊️ ⏰
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...
December 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Sign up now for ‘Crafting Your Year in Poetry’, a workshop to get focused as a poet for the next year. 👇 👇 👇
Tuesday 30th December at 5pm, UK time. 🔥 🖊️ ⏰
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...
Tuesday 30th December at 5pm, UK time. 🔥 🖊️ ⏰
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...
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Our Christmas and winter anthology. An aesthetic beauty for the whole season. Available in hardback and softback. On Amazon! ❄️ 📖
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
December 28, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Our Christmas and winter anthology. An aesthetic beauty for the whole season. Available in hardback and softback. On Amazon! ❄️ 📖
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
Christmas book present
#poetry #seamusheaney @faberbooks.bsky.social #MatthewHollis #rosielaven #BernardODonoghue #poetic #irishpoetry
#poetry #seamusheaney @faberbooks.bsky.social #MatthewHollis #rosielaven #BernardODonoghue #poetic #irishpoetry
December 27, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Christmas book present
#poetry #seamusheaney @faberbooks.bsky.social #MatthewHollis #rosielaven #BernardODonoghue #poetic #irishpoetry
#poetry #seamusheaney @faberbooks.bsky.social #MatthewHollis #rosielaven #BernardODonoghue #poetic #irishpoetry
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There’s something about Christmas that just makes me want to curl up with cosy childhood classics. This year, I’ve been reading ‘The Box of Delights’.
December 27, 2025 at 10:15 AM
There’s something about Christmas that just makes me want to curl up with cosy childhood classics. This year, I’ve been reading ‘The Box of Delights’.