Carolyn Thomas
@carolynthomas.bsky.social
Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
For #PoemsAbout - I know I’m groggy at the moment but this, on today’s milk, really? It’s certainly #BreakingtheMould 🙈 Can’t manage a poem today and will try to catch up with everyone soon. Best I can manage is a bit of dark visual humour
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October 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
For #PoemsAbout - I know I’m groggy at the moment but this, on today’s milk, really? It’s certainly #BreakingtheMould 🙈 Can’t manage a poem today and will try to catch up with everyone soon. Best I can manage is a bit of dark visual humour
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A #LifttotheSky for this powerful new collection by the splendid Merril D Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
Characteristically beautiful and evocative writing, honest and deeply moving, it also includes many of her wonderful photographs @alanparrywriter.co.uk
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#poetrycommunity
Characteristically beautiful and evocative writing, honest and deeply moving, it also includes many of her wonderful photographs @alanparrywriter.co.uk
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October 13, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A #LifttotheSky for this powerful new collection by the splendid Merril D Smith @merrildsmith.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity
Characteristically beautiful and evocative writing, honest and deeply moving, it also includes many of her wonderful photographs @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
#poetrycommunity
Characteristically beautiful and evocative writing, honest and deeply moving, it also includes many of her wonderful photographs @alanparrywriter.co.uk
@thebrokenspine.co.uk
A #LifttotheSky for this amazing collection of sonnets by the brilliant Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social who contributes so much to the #poetrycommunity. Published in 2022, but new to me, it explores myth and legend with grace and wit
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October 13, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A #LifttotheSky for this amazing collection of sonnets by the brilliant Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social who contributes so much to the #poetrycommunity. Published in 2022, but new to me, it explores myth and legend with grace and wit
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For #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe Posting my effort now but madly busy so will try to catch up with everyone’s work later - the ones I have seen are great 😊
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October 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
For #PoemsAbout #ImperfectMe Posting my effort now but madly busy so will try to catch up with everyone’s work later - the ones I have seen are great 😊
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Hopelessly late but here’s another of the Ruth Ellis poems (this one’s a bit rough and needs tidying) for #PoemsAbout #Mannequins
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October 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Hopelessly late but here’s another of the Ruth Ellis poems (this one’s a bit rough and needs tidying) for #PoemsAbout #Mannequins
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Another beauty from this month’s The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social - this time from the splendid Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social
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#poetrycommunity
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October 2, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Another beauty from this month’s The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social - this time from the splendid Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social
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#Blueskypoets #PoetsSupportPoets
#poetrycommunity
#Blueskypoets #PoetsSupportPoets
Delighted to see this great poem from @rburrows.bsky.social in October’s issue of @dreich.bsky.social
#poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoets
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#poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoets
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October 1, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Delighted to see this great poem from @rburrows.bsky.social in October’s issue of @dreich.bsky.social
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#PoetsSupportPoets
#poetrycommunity #BlueskyPoets
#PoetsSupportPoets
So proud of Newcastle today 😊 Huge turnout to show Tommy Robinson and his rabble they’re not welcome on the Tyne and block the racists
September 27, 2025 at 8:13 PM
So proud of Newcastle today 😊 Huge turnout to show Tommy Robinson and his rabble they’re not welcome on the Tyne and block the racists
For #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain I’ve tried to address the alarming failure to make connections between the past and what’s happening today which makes ‘Never Again’ nothing more than a cliché. It’s rough and could do with editing but all I have for now
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September 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
For #PoemsAbout #NeverAgain I’ve tried to address the alarming failure to make connections between the past and what’s happening today which makes ‘Never Again’ nothing more than a cliché. It’s rough and could do with editing but all I have for now
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And yet a third #LifttotheSky for The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social a new online mag curated by the supportive and generous Jack Caradoc. It’s already published great work by fantastic poets and it’s free to subscribe (and submit). Get to know it! #poetrycommunity
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September 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
And yet a third #LifttotheSky for The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social a new online mag curated by the supportive and generous Jack Caradoc. It’s already published great work by fantastic poets and it’s free to subscribe (and submit). Get to know it! #poetrycommunity
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A #LifttotheSky for the excellent Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social for the stunning ‘Drench Me in Silver’, published by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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#poetrycommunity #PoetsSupportPoets
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September 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A #LifttotheSky for the excellent Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social for the stunning ‘Drench Me in Silver’, published by @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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#poetrycommunity #PoetsSupportPoets
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September 20, 2025 at 7:10 AM
For today’s #PoemsAbout #Candlelight a different sort of candle. A true story that remains as vivid to me now as the night it happened.
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September 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
For today’s #PoemsAbout #Candlelight a different sort of candle. A true story that remains as vivid to me now as the night it happened.
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This beauty has arrived 😊 One word - brilliant 🤩 Buy it!!! #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #poetssupportpoets
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September 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
This beauty has arrived 😊 One word - brilliant 🤩 Buy it!!! #poetrycommunity #blueskypoets #poetssupportpoets
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For #PoemsAbout #Facade I bring you Tamara de Lempicka, unreliable narrator and myth weaver. Not entirely happy with it (needs some hefty editing) but the best I could muster today when I’m enjoying terrific stuff from #poetrycommunity
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September 5, 2025 at 10:19 AM
For #PoemsAbout #Facade I bring you Tamara de Lempicka, unreliable narrator and myth weaver. Not entirely happy with it (needs some hefty editing) but the best I could muster today when I’m enjoying terrific stuff from #poetrycommunity
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Thrilled my poem about the iceberg A23a is in the second Molecules Unlimited anthology. Wonderful to be among great poets and delighted to be with you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
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August 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Thrilled my poem about the iceberg A23a is in the second Molecules Unlimited anthology. Wonderful to be among great poets and delighted to be with you @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social
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@davgar51.bsky.social
I had a real struggle with this #PoemsAbout #Ceasefire and binned a lot of angry pieces but here’s my more domestic take.
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August 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I had a real struggle with this #PoemsAbout #Ceasefire and binned a lot of angry pieces but here’s my more domestic take.
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A massive #LifttotheSky for all the wonderful poets included in the excellent Beautiful Little Fools. Sadly, I can’t be with you for the launch but I’m sure it’ll be amazing
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August 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A massive #LifttotheSky for all the wonderful poets included in the excellent Beautiful Little Fools. Sadly, I can’t be with you for the launch but I’m sure it’ll be amazing
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Delighted to find myself among great poets, including @carmellapoetry.bsky.social in this month’s issue of The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social
Do support this new magazine - subscription is free so if you’d like to sign up and/or submit work, published or not, email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
Do support this new magazine - subscription is free so if you’d like to sign up and/or submit work, published or not, email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Delighted to find myself among great poets, including @carmellapoetry.bsky.social in this month’s issue of The Candyman’s Trumpet @dreich.bsky.social
Do support this new magazine - subscription is free so if you’d like to sign up and/or submit work, published or not, email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
Do support this new magazine - subscription is free so if you’d like to sign up and/or submit work, published or not, email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com
Another of the Ruth Ellis poems. The first quotation is from the MP who persuaded Ruth to allow him to appeal her case; the second was overheard from a man in the public gallery. I suppose it’s about the hypocrisy of the Male Gaze
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#PoemsAbout #Glamour
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#PoemsAbout #Glamour
July 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Another of the Ruth Ellis poems. The first quotation is from the MP who persuaded Ruth to allow him to appeal her case; the second was overheard from a man in the public gallery. I suppose it’s about the hypocrisy of the Male Gaze
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#PoemsAbout #Glamour
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#PoemsAbout #Glamour
For #PoemsAbout #WaxTears - one with no tears! The title is from Ovid. I’ve been thinking of writing something about Ethel Rosenberg for a while so this seemed to fit. Rhyme unintentional - just arrived and stayed
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July 18, 2025 at 6:34 AM
For #PoemsAbout #WaxTears - one with no tears! The title is from Ovid. I’ve been thinking of writing something about Ethel Rosenberg for a while so this seemed to fit. Rhyme unintentional - just arrived and stayed
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My mother was a hairdresser so you’d have thought…but no! #PromptCombo #Summer a bit of Welsh midsummer madness for @victoriaspires.bsky.social with apologies to Robert Graves
July 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
My mother was a hairdresser so you’d have thought…but no! #PromptCombo #Summer a bit of Welsh midsummer madness for @victoriaspires.bsky.social with apologies to Robert Graves
Brilliant online launch for @louloumach.bsky.social ‘s fantastic collection. 👏👏👏 Fabulous readings of stunning poems and a really great lineup of wonderful poets reading their work, too l
Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
July 12, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Brilliant online launch for @louloumach.bsky.social ‘s fantastic collection. 👏👏👏 Fabulous readings of stunning poems and a really great lineup of wonderful poets reading their work, too l
Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
For today’s #PoemsAbout #Keepsakes a true tale of absurdity! Yet one that makes me smile. Hope you’re enjoying your day @alanparrywriter.co.uk - your prompt is producing great poems
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July 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
For today’s #PoemsAbout #Keepsakes a true tale of absurdity! Yet one that makes me smile. Hope you’re enjoying your day @alanparrywriter.co.uk - your prompt is producing great poems
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Stunning collection 👏👏👏 to @thebrokenspine.co.uk, the editors @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk and all the poets. Beautifully presented book for beautifully engaged poems. Thank you all - it’s a joy
July 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Stunning collection 👏👏👏 to @thebrokenspine.co.uk, the editors @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social @alanparrywriter.co.uk and all the poets. Beautifully presented book for beautifully engaged poems. Thank you all - it’s a joy