Matthew M C Smith
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
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‘on certain days, / you can see the finer points of a possible extinction/
baiting the blades. dances with hard winds’ 🗡️ ☁️ 🪽 🌧️ 🌞
An amazing suite of #poems by @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
baiting the blades. dances with hard winds’ 🗡️ ☁️ 🪽 🌧️ 🌞
An amazing suite of #poems by @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
‘on certain days, / you can see the finer points of a possible extinction/
baiting the blades. dances with hard winds’ 🗡️ ☁️ 🪽 🌧️ 🌞
An amazing suite of #poems by @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
baiting the blades. dances with hard winds’ 🗡️ ☁️ 🪽 🌧️ 🌞
An amazing suite of #poems by @jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
The latest bumper edition of @eatthestorms.com edited by Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social
Stunning publication!
Stunning publication!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The latest bumper edition of @eatthestorms.com edited by Damien B Donnelly @eatthestorms.com and @rhonagreene.bsky.social
Stunning publication!
Stunning publication!
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Wow! This feels like it was an AGE ago ... when in fact, it's been less than a year since this appeared.
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
Our Christmas 2024 feature, Mark Antony Owen - a #SilverBranch special.
'their orchestra of shovels tuning up on the ice' @markantonyowen.com
www.blackboughpoetry.com/mark-antony-owen-christmas-24
'their orchestra of shovels tuning up on the ice' @markantonyowen.com
www.blackboughpoetry.com/mark-antony-owen-christmas-24
November 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wow! This feels like it was an AGE ago ... when in fact, it's been less than a year since this appeared.
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
My thanks, still, to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social, @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social, and my former BBC journalist interviewer @elcurwen.bsky.social. 🙏🏼
November 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Rewind back to last Christmas and our Christmas & winter anthology 🎄 ⛄️ 🎅
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
November 7, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Rewind back to last Christmas and our Christmas & winter anthology 🎄 ⛄️ 🎅
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
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‘sweetness fledgling in the crowning
dark as roving plovers, lovers, linger
over last lights and coquetries.’
Jakki Bankong Obi 🖊️ 💎
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature 🥰
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
dark as roving plovers, lovers, linger
over last lights and coquetries.’
Jakki Bankong Obi 🖊️ 💎
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature 🥰
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 AM
‘sweetness fledgling in the crowning
dark as roving plovers, lovers, linger
over last lights and coquetries.’
Jakki Bankong Obi 🖊️ 💎
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature 🥰
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
dark as roving plovers, lovers, linger
over last lights and coquetries.’
Jakki Bankong Obi 🖊️ 💎
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature 🥰
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
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Next week’s #writingprompt is…
Winter, winter festivals, Diwali, Christmas.
Imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse #poetry, 80 words max, no A.I. of course ☝️
Get writing!
On Twitter only.
Winter, winter festivals, Diwali, Christmas.
Imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse #poetry, 80 words max, no A.I. of course ☝️
Get writing!
On Twitter only.
November 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Next week’s #writingprompt is…
Winter, winter festivals, Diwali, Christmas.
Imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse #poetry, 80 words max, no A.I. of course ☝️
Get writing!
On Twitter only.
Winter, winter festivals, Diwali, Christmas.
Imagistic, metaphorical, inventive, free verse #poetry, 80 words max, no A.I. of course ☝️
Get writing!
On Twitter only.
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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More poems like this, please.
At a foodbank near you. 😢
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:55 AM
More poems like this, please.
At a foodbank near you. 😢
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
At a foodbank near you. 😢
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
The quiet anarchy of the volunteer who cannot be in the photo with the MP.
#poetry #foodbank #poverty #CeasefireNOW #welfarerights #politics #GazaCeasefire @teamlabouruk.bsky.social @plaidcymru.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk @socialistworker.bsky.social
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Stoked to have two poems in The Interpreter's House, alongside @moette.bsky.social, @poetbex.bsky.social and many other fine poets.
About...errr... homunculi, and not going quietly into vinegary distinction.
You can read both – and the rest of the issue – here theinterpretershouse.org/spires-84
About...errr... homunculi, and not going quietly into vinegary distinction.
You can read both – and the rest of the issue – here theinterpretershouse.org/spires-84
November 2, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Stoked to have two poems in The Interpreter's House, alongside @moette.bsky.social, @poetbex.bsky.social and many other fine poets.
About...errr... homunculi, and not going quietly into vinegary distinction.
You can read both – and the rest of the issue – here theinterpretershouse.org/spires-84
About...errr... homunculi, and not going quietly into vinegary distinction.
You can read both – and the rest of the issue – here theinterpretershouse.org/spires-84
Opportunity for those who like to make up caricatures of different types of poets (doing impressions). Fictional types of course, not based on anyone particular. Apply within.
November 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Opportunity for those who like to make up caricatures of different types of poets (doing impressions). Fictional types of course, not based on anyone particular. Apply within.
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‘a yearning of notes flung
to the sky gods that sail
upon the high wind’ 🐺
@racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
to the sky gods that sail
upon the high wind’ 🐺
@racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
November 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
‘a yearning of notes flung
to the sky gods that sail
upon the high wind’ 🐺
@racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
to the sky gods that sail
upon the high wind’ 🐺
@racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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‘He moves his foolish tools along the rows, to tend his lonely life, the only sun he knows.’
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social from his poetry collection ‘Consolamentum’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social from his poetry collection ‘Consolamentum’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
November 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
‘He moves his foolish tools along the rows, to tend his lonely life, the only sun he knows.’
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social from his poetry collection ‘Consolamentum’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social from his poetry collection ‘Consolamentum’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
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Fill your snow boots with winter poems. Last year’s winter anthology in hard and soft back ❄️ 📖 🕯️ ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Fill your snow boots with winter poems. Last year’s winter anthology in hard and soft back ❄️ 📖 🕯️ ❄️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
www.blackboughpoetry.com/christmas-wi...
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‘Like a stranger whispering in the next room, snow comes to the desert,
surprising even the saddest bird.’ ❄️
Regine Ebner from her collection ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
surprising even the saddest bird.’ ❄️
Regine Ebner from her collection ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
‘Like a stranger whispering in the next room, snow comes to the desert,
surprising even the saddest bird.’ ❄️
Regine Ebner from her collection ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
surprising even the saddest bird.’ ❄️
Regine Ebner from her collection ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
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A poem from my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. 👇
‘a yearning of notes flung
to the sky gods that sail
upon the high wind’ 🐺
@racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
to the sky gods that sail
upon the high wind’ 🐺
@racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
November 2, 2025 at 10:27 AM
A poem from my collection, In the Shadow of Gods. 👇
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‘flamethrowers rut all season long and everything’s a flare of crimson hearts’
♥️ 🔥
‘we kiss in the aegis of bramble
and pine so tender’ 🥰
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. Check it out!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
♥️ 🔥
‘we kiss in the aegis of bramble
and pine so tender’ 🥰
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. Check it out!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
November 2, 2025 at 10:39 AM
‘flamethrowers rut all season long and everything’s a flare of crimson hearts’
♥️ 🔥
‘we kiss in the aegis of bramble
and pine so tender’ 🥰
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. Check it out!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
♥️ 🔥
‘we kiss in the aegis of bramble
and pine so tender’ 🥰
@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social #SilverBranch feature. Check it out!
www.blackboughpoetry.com/jakky-bankon...
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@merrildsmith.bsky.social fantastic collection Held Inside The Folds of a time is in The Book Bag today. Published by @janes-studio.bsky.social
Plus all the regular shouts/news/opps and playlist
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com
Plus all the regular shouts/news/opps and playlist
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com
The Book Bag is Held Inside The Folds Of Time this week. A fantastic collection by Merril D Smith, published by Jane's Studio Press.
A fantastic collection with pieces that cling to the mind like a fine November drizzle. A perfect gift for the festive season.
Plus news, shoutouts and playlist
A fantastic collection with pieces that cling to the mind like a fine November drizzle. A perfect gift for the festive season.
Plus news, shoutouts and playlist
The Book Bag: Held Inside The Folds Of Time by Merril D. Smith
Welcome back to The Book Bag. I hope you’ve had a poetic week. Well, this has been a week. On Sunday, I attended the Black Bough open mic and read a couple of pieces. I then had a half day leave from work on Monday where we took Brody to the vets for a checkup and boosters. He’s healthy but he really doesn’t like the vets. Yesterday, the excellent Full House Literary launched their new issue, which contains one of my poems. I’m beyond happy to share pages with incredible writers.
paulwritespoems.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:55 AM
@merrildsmith.bsky.social fantastic collection Held Inside The Folds of a time is in The Book Bag today. Published by @janes-studio.bsky.social
Plus all the regular shouts/news/opps and playlist
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com
Plus all the regular shouts/news/opps and playlist
@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
@fullhouselitmag.bsky.social @eatthestorms.com
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@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver' is available now on Amazon and at your door in days!
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
November 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social poetry collection 'Drench Me in Silver' is available now on Amazon and at your door in days!
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
Available at: shorturl.at/82QxI
#poetry #writing #poet #poetic #Indianpoetry
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This is a super workshop that really focuses the mind and is guaranteed to bring positivity to your poetry life. Sign up now!
Are you a poet? Are you looking to improve your writing routines, profile, publication rate and self confidence
We’ll be working on our writing plans.
Join us on Sunday 16th November, 6.30 - 9.15 Uk time
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...
#poetry #writing #writers #amwriting #poets
We’ll be working on our writing plans.
Join us on Sunday 16th November, 6.30 - 9.15 Uk time
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crafting-y...
#poetry #writing #writers #amwriting #poets
October 31, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is a super workshop that really focuses the mind and is guaranteed to bring positivity to your poetry life. Sign up now!
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Two of our runners up from the #Halloween #micropoem contest - @hool415.bsky.social and @helenlaycock.bsky.social
November 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Two of our runners up from the #Halloween #micropoem contest - @hool415.bsky.social and @helenlaycock.bsky.social
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Winner of the #Halloween #micropoem contest - Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social with this fragment hovering between comfort, light…and horror. 🥇
Well done - a big cheery pumpkin🎃 smile to all of you who participated. Thank you.
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s book on its way.
#poetry
Well done - a big cheery pumpkin🎃 smile to all of you who participated. Thank you.
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s book on its way.
#poetry
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Winner of the #Halloween #micropoem contest - Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social with this fragment hovering between comfort, light…and horror. 🥇
Well done - a big cheery pumpkin🎃 smile to all of you who participated. Thank you.
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s book on its way.
#poetry
Well done - a big cheery pumpkin🎃 smile to all of you who participated. Thank you.
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s book on its way.
#poetry
Host today of the #Halloween micropoem contest - 14 words maximum!
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
October 31, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Host today of the #Halloween micropoem contest - 14 words maximum!
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️
@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social 🧛
Keep them coming until midnight, your timezone. Love you all ♥️ 🕸️