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Sarah Connor
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
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Poet, hanging on in there.
The Crow Gods available from Sidhe Press, The Poet Spells Her Name now available from Black Bough
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Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social · Jan 4
A message from Sarah’s family: Our beautiful Sarah passed away on the 27th of December. As you all know she was an exceptional human being who will be greatly missed by many. You can find more information about her Farewell on fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/a...
sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
A message from Sarah’s family: Our beautiful Sarah passed away on the 27th of December. As you all know she was an exceptional human being who will be greatly missed by many. You can find more information about her Farewell on fmmewritespoems.wordpress.com/2025/01/04/a...
January 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Our last round of Pushcart Prize nominations from Black Bough.
🎉 🎈 🥳

@annachorlton.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
@racheldeering.bsky.social
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social

Merry Christmas! Well done. Your nominations are in New York
December 24, 2024 at 7:18 AM
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rhonagreene.bsky.social
I'm listening to A Thousand Shades of Green | Merril D. Smith on Podbean, check it out! www.podbean.com/wlei/pb-966e...
Merril D. Smith
Merril D. Smith lives in southern New Jersey near the Delaware River. Her work has been published widely in poetry journals and anthologies, including Black Bough Poetry, Acropolis, Feral, Sidhe Press...
www.podbean.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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wendypratt.bsky.social
My book is currently on offer at the online site beginning with A: The Ghost Lake: A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire amzn.eu/d/dWy8be4
The Ghost Lake: A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire
Buy The Ghost Lake: A memoir of grief, nature and ancestry in rural Yorkshire by Pratt, Wendy (ISBN: 9780008637378) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
amzn.eu
December 26, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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markantonyowen.com
For the third time, @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social has nominated a poem of mine (that appeared in a @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social publication) for a @pushcartprize.bsky.social. I'm so grateful to him for championing my work like this, and I'd like to wish all my fellow nominees the very best of luck.
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 24
Our last round of Pushcart Prize nominations from Black Bough.
🎉 🎈 🥳

@annachorlton.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
@racheldeering.bsky.social
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social

Merry Christmas! Well done. Your nominations are in New York
December 24, 2024 at 7:45 AM
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thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
Tomorrow, Page 2 of issue #7 The Starbeck Orion features the work of Sarah O'Grady, text and audio @palimpsest22.bsky.social
December 25, 2024 at 10:05 PM
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palimpsest22.bsky.social
Oh! What a fabulous Christmas surprise this is. Thank you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social .
thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social · Dec 25
Tomorrow, Page 2 of issue #7 The Starbeck Orion features the work of Sarah O'Grady, text and audio @palimpsest22.bsky.social
December 25, 2024 at 10:45 PM
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merrildsmith.bsky.social
It's so wonderful to be included in this winter anthology by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social with so many fabulous poets! ❄️❄️
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 26
'the black Cossack boot of night plunges'

'windows glow with major lift
when the shammes tips flame'. 🕯️

@merrildsmith.bsky.social in the Black Bough Christmas and Winter anthology.

www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
December 26, 2024 at 3:35 PM
sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
What a list;!
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 24
Our last round of Pushcart Prize nominations from Black Bough.
🎉 🎈 🥳

@annachorlton.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
@racheldeering.bsky.social
@rfredekenter.bsky.social
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social

Merry Christmas! Well done. Your nominations are in New York
December 25, 2024 at 5:44 PM
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bertsbooks.bsky.social
Festive Giveaway! RT and follow by 5pm on Friday 27th December.

I’ll pick one lucky person from all entrants on Twitter and Bluesky.

One lucky person can pick either shelf 1, 2, 3 or 4 from my Bertvent books of the year as a New Year treat!

UK only.
4 shelves of books: Shelf 1: A Curtain Twitcher's Book of Murder; Sandwich; The Other Valley; Orbital; Sometimes People Die; The List of Suspicious Things Shelf 2: Ink Ribbon Red; Falling Animals; All the Colours of the Dark; Freakslaw; Leading Man; William Shelf 3: Anyone's Ghost; Bored Gay Werewolf; The Betrayal of Thomas True; Guilty By Definition; The Pairing; The Actor Shelf 4: The Last Murder at the End of the World; The Examiner; The Husbands; Helle & Death; Death on the Lusitania; The Fellowship of the Puzzlemakers
December 24, 2024 at 8:57 PM
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sidhepress.bsky.social
I am proud to announce that all books by #SidhePress have been accepted by the National Poetry Library! Congrats to
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social @nikkidudleywriter.bsky.social
@alisonphipps.bsky.social @khawlabadwan.bsky.social
and all contributors who trusted me with their work, a big shout out
December 19, 2024 at 2:56 PM
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jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
Chuffed to have a poem of mine in here.
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 4
🔔 It's here! The Christmas-winter edition featuring distinguished author Matthew Hollis and other leading poetry luminaries. Be moved and inspired this Christmas and winter with our imagist anthology! In paperback & hardback 🔔

www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
December 5, 2024 at 8:17 AM
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saraswatinagpal.bsky.social
Grateful to have a poem on a winter solstice festival in India in this lovely compilation by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - thanks to editor @elcurwen.bsky.social and EIC @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social - happy festivities!
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 4
🔔 It's here! The Christmas-winter edition featuring distinguished author Matthew Hollis and other leading poetry luminaries. Be moved and inspired this Christmas and winter with our imagist anthology! In paperback & hardback 🔔

www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
December 5, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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elcurwen.bsky.social
I'm honoured to be guest editor of this bumper gift box of astonishing poetry. 🎄✨️
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 4
🔔 It's here! The Christmas-winter edition featuring distinguished author Matthew Hollis and other leading poetry luminaries. Be moved and inspired this Christmas and winter with our imagist anthology! In paperback & hardback 🔔

www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
December 5, 2024 at 8:27 AM
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alayanabeth.bsky.social
Congratulations everyone. Wonderful poets here to discover.
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 2
💎 PLEASE SHARE 💎

The Pushcart Prize nominations for the TopTweetTuesday project on Twitter for 2024. 🔥🔥🔥

Julian Cason
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
@ivordaniel.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
Yvonne Marjot
@oormilaprahlad.bsky.social

Very tough to narrow down! Thank you everyone 🎉🥳🍾
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
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blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
Three of our Pushcart Prize nominees for the TopTweetTuesday project (2024):

Julian Cason

Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social

@ivordaniel.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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gjgreenlea.bsky.social
So proud of my poet colleagues and their brilliant work. Congratulations and much admiration:

Julian Cason
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
@ivordaniel.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
Yvonne Marjot
@oormilaprahlad.bsky.social
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 2
💎 PLEASE SHARE 💎

The Pushcart Prize nominations for the TopTweetTuesday project on Twitter for 2024. 🔥🔥🔥

Julian Cason
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
@ivordaniel.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
Yvonne Marjot
@oormilaprahlad.bsky.social

Very tough to narrow down! Thank you everyone 🎉🥳🍾
December 3, 2024 at 3:22 AM
sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
Very honoured. What a poetry week I'm having! Thank you @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social and congratulations to everyone on this list!
blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Black Bough Poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · Dec 2
💎 PLEASE SHARE 💎

The Pushcart Prize nominations for the TopTweetTuesday project on Twitter for 2024. 🔥🔥🔥

Julian Cason
@sarahsouthwest.bsky.social
@ivordaniel.bsky.social
@markantonyowen.com
Yvonne Marjot
@oormilaprahlad.bsky.social

Very tough to narrow down! Thank you everyone 🎉🥳🍾
December 2, 2024 at 10:23 PM
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annelouiseavery.bsky.social
A mysterious arctic fox stares directly into the camera. Northern lights over north-eastern Lapland.
December 2, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
& spoilers!

but what I keep returning to with this poem? The single word distillations in it are all key elements of other poems in this collection. It's one of the most masterful keystone pieces I've ever encountered, & @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social is flame
November 29, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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sidhepress.bsky.social
Our books 2024, a🧵: we started off with `To Light The Trails – Poems By Women In A Violent World" My fabulous co-editors were Mo Schoenfeld @suefinch.bsky.social Giovanna MacKenna @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social Róisín Ní Neachtain. In the first few months, all proceeds from this book went to UNRWA,
Cover of To Light The Trails, Poems By Women In a Violent World. On the right, the front cover shows a vibrant 3-d- sun made out of cardboard, with yellow, red, gold, pink, white. On the left is a quote: The poems in To Light the Trails force us to look, empowering the women and girls featured in the pieces through the act of witness. The voices of these women refuse to be silenced, and from diverse perspectives, we hear experiences of escaping controlling behaviour, of living in fear, of suffering assaults, of not being believed, and of rising up and reclaiming the narrative. The poems come together to form a powerful and immensely readable testimony to freedom and resistance. Hilary Otto, Zoetrope
November 30, 2024 at 8:57 AM
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sidhepress.bsky.social
Book no. 2 was the second book by Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social with Sídhe Press, `Always Fire`. This book was co-edited by Sarah herself and by
@suefinch.bsky.social. @merrildsmith.bsky.social wrote the blurb & Róisín gifted us her beautiful artwork for the cover. The proceeds
Cover of Always Fire by Sarah Connor, with excerpts from an abstract painting by Róisín Ní Neachtain in red, blue, white, beige, yellow, black On the right is a quote:In her new collection, Always Fire, Sarah Connor once again dances between bird-enchantment, the realization of and reckoning with mortality, and the joy and comfort found in the day- to-day business of living. These are potent, personal poems that speak to our humanity and connection to the natural world around us. Read Always Fire. Then read it again--because these poems sneak up on you, gently grazing your skin and grasping your heart. Merril D. Smith, River Ghosts
November 30, 2024 at 9:04 AM
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radiolento.bsky.social
Happy weekend all.

Don't forget to watch out for the start of #LentoAdvent on Sunday as it is shockingly 1 December!
red rosehip berries on a wintery day.
November 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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seagoatscreams.bsky.social
UNESCO is launching this fierce lantern of witness-made-poetry next week, with tiny press/enormous heart @sidhepress.bsky.social

Please come, spread the word, and #KeepTellingOfGaza
Thurs 5 Dec: 4pm GMT / 11am EST

(5am NZT, but yes, I'll see you there)

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...
November 29, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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wendypratt.bsky.social
Thanks for recommending The Ghost Lake in your Christmas gift guide, @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social ! 📕🎁

uk.bookshop.org/lists/gift-g...
Gift Guide to... Natural History 2024
Check out this list on Bookshop.org
uk.bookshop.org
November 29, 2024 at 10:31 AM