Recently, I've started writing poetry for teenagers after reading about a young person who committed suicide.

It's an advert for a book. On the left is a quote. It says "Ominous with small-town despair, Jamie Woods' Black Skies Die Starless is a stylish coming of age take, set in the 1990s. Punky and unfettered. Intense and cinematic. So evocative, a reader might glimpse themselves in the passenger seat of the next car at the red lights; spliff in hand, head back, blocking out the best years of their lives. Tracey Rhys"On the right are stylised words - Punk Dust Poetry, Black Skies Die Starless, Jamie Woods, 1st July 2025, punkdust.com and all good bookshops. In the background is a photo of a young man looking naive and lost.

Thank you @traceyrhys.bsky.social for your kind words.

BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS comes out in 10 days.
Pre-order from PunkDust.com or ask your local bookshop.
@jamiewoods77.bsky.social is reading at Elysium Swansea on June 26th, more dates tba.
#NewPoetry
#WelshPoetry
#BlackSkiesDieStarless

A new poetry collection by @parthianbooks.bsky.social and Welsh writer Tracey Rhys. @traceyrhys.bsky.social

‘ I can take the slow form of droplets on your glass’.

Always a pleasure, butty 😁 It’s a great collection 😍

Read this Very Good collection by my pal @traceyrhys.bsky.social and it is Very Good but also a peak out of context comedy moment.

A #LifttotheSky #PoemsAbout #poetrycommunity to @traceyrhys.bsky.social for her brilliant debut collection @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Can't wait to join Rhian and Christina on the 19th. Book your free ticket as spaces are limited.

Wow @carolynthomas.bsky.social this is so kind, thanks so much! 🙏❤️

Looking forward to this!

Dydd Iau 19 Mehefin 2025, 5.45pm. Hyb Llyfrgell Ganolog Caerdydd. Christina Thatcher, Tracey Rhys a Rhian Elizabeth. Darllen o'u casgliadau barddoniaeth newydd Breaking a Mare, Bathing on the Roof, a maybe I’ll call gillian anderson. I archebu eich tocyn AM DDIM, sganiwch god QR yma neu ewch i www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs-libraries

Unrhyw un eisiau gweld rhestr o farddoniaeth yr haf? Mwynhewch waith newydd sbon gan @traceyrhys.bsky.social, Christina Thatcher a Rhian Elizabeth ddydd Iau 19/06 yn @cardiff-hub.bsky.social!

Mae’r tocynnau am ddim yn www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs...

For #ToptweetTuesday #reviews here are my thoughts on the excellent debut from @traceyrhys.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social

I've only just seen this! Haven't got the hang of Bluesky to be honest, but this is a lovely and welcome surprise. Thank you, Carolyn 🙏❤️

A pleasure to be at the launch of @traceyrhys.bsky.social and Christina Thatcher's latest collections from @parthianbooks.bsky.social, hosted by poetry editor @soozerama.bsky.social. Reviews below alongside @pascalepetit.bsky.social from @mabjones.bsky.social 👇

On Being a Poet in Wales: Tracey Rhys Tracey Rhys A friend recently asked if I still felt an attachment to the place I grew up, and for a moment I was thrown. Only the Bwlch mountain separates Bridgend County, where I now live, from the R...

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On writing, growing up in the Rhondda Valleys, box perms, Home & Away twice daily and a lot of 80s and 90s nostalgia.

Wonderful launch of Christina Thatcher's Breaking a Mare and my own Bathing on the Roof at Waterstones Cardiff on Thursday. Such warmth! It felt dream-like to introduce my book to you.

I'm in the Western Mail Weekend magazine today talking about Bathing on the Roof! Many thanks to Jenny White for giving me the opportunity to talk about the evolution of the book. Out now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social

"Every bombed village is my hometown" - James Baldwin And every dead child is my child. Every grieving mother is my mother. Every crying father is my father. Every home turned to rubble is the home I grew up in. Every brother carrying the remains of his brother across borders is my brother. Every sister waiting for a sister who will never come home is my sister. Every one of these people are ours, Just like we are theirs. We belong to them and they belong to us.

What is happening to the people of Gaza can happen to any of us.

Thanks for your kind words, Gordon!

Get yourself to this, Cardiff. Two very fine poets and lovely people. 🙂

Something positive and full of craft and heart, in troubled times.

Thanks for your kind words, Corinna, and for the repost too xx

Many disabled people spent 14 years holding on, surviving Tory cruelty, by focusing on 'if we can just get a Labour gov, this will stop'.

I can't describe the community's betrayal and hopelessness now it's turned out Labour not only haven't stopped, they're going further.

#WelfareNotWarfare
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The Butterfly House by Tracey Rhys YouTube video by Tracey Rhys

I've made a late-night recording (it was 11pm so I do look a bit knackered) of one of my poems from the new collection. This one is about multiple miscarriages so bear that in mind if you feel it might upset you. youtu.be/2P1qQhMQY3E?...

So true! 😁

Yay! Thank you, Kath! 🙌

Thanks Roger! 🙏

Poetry Launch: Tracey Rhys and Christina Thatcher | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Poetry Launch: Tracey Rhys and Christina Thatcher today.

I'll be launching my first full collection on April 10 at Waterstones Cardiff with fellow Parthian stablemate, the superb Christina Thatcher. We would love love LOVE to see you there! www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...

"Oxwich doesn’t wave its past in your face; it lets you stumble upon it. What it is, is a gentle, constant presence – a place that lets the bay and the cliffs do all the shouting while it leans back, waiting for you to notice just how much it has to say."

A man in a coat and hat holds a rod with a fish at the end of it up to the worried face of a giant sea creature with many entwined tentacled limbs. Drawing.

Hello Monday.
🖼️ William Joyce

I am so very happy, over the moon happy, to have two poems in the latest issue of this magazine, which I have loved for years - thank you @rialtopoetry.bsky.social x

Bird shaped cloud formations in a morning sky, the sun rising behind, the winged shapes seemingly in flight. Treetops in silhouette.

The ghosts of the starlings.