I sent a new one in Jan but it was by attachment which was the wrong format. I resent in the email. Hopefully!

The Book Bag: After Party by Dean Browne Welcome back to The Book Bag. I hope you’ve had a poetic week. This week has been fun and fast. I started the week with taking the dog to a secure field and woodland so he could run free and explore. He slept well on Sunday evening. I received a letter with some beautiful poetry, followed closely by ‘the taro as deer’ by Caroline Harris.

In The Book Bag this week, we go to the 'After Party'. This debut collection from Dean Brown is a corker of a book.

Settle in and read my thoughts here. Also have news, recap and of course a book bag and an afterpart needs the playlist...

Well done!

For #smallpoemsunday and host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social ‘Itinerant Poet’. Tom has a book out soon with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social

#shortpoem #micropoem #poetry #poet

Merci!

Really?!

a large body of water with mountains in the background and a netflix logo on the bottom ALT: a large body of water with mountains in the background and a netflix logo on the bottom

Submitted a poem about Antarctica for the @magmapoetry.bsky.social call 🧊 ❄️

#poetry #writing

Sent back, gaffe free I would hope!

No probs my friend. I did a worse gaffe submitting to you x

For #fragmentsfriday ‘I Telescope Back to this Planet’

‘after travelling impossibly far outwards’

🦕 🦖 🌎 ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ 🔭

#poetry #writing #poem #micropoem #poetic #writingprompt

A one off #TopTweetTuesday where we will also run this on Bluesky.

Next week’s prompts:

- prophecy, collision of present day and myth, ritual, the future, the city.

Up to 120 words.

Imagistic, metaphorical, free verse. Inventive, quirky.

Bold title, your name italicised. No A.I.

Poem by Matt

‘You were imprisoned inland,
existing like a body in state’

Anyone miss the #ocean? ☀️ 🌊

A new #poem for TopTweetTuesday on Twitter

#holidays #vacations #seaside @visitwales.bsky.social

For #smallpoemsunday a muse #poem

Thanks to @tomsnarsky.bsky.social who has a book coming out with @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social #touch #night #passion

What is this (Uk)?

Poem

For #promptcombo ‘Insomnia’ 🌒

#shortpoem #poem #micropoem #poetry #writing

Rachel Deering / poetry book

On #WorldPoetryDay, ‘Grey Heron’ from @racheldeering.bsky.social ‘In the Shadow of Gods’.

www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering

#poetrylovers

James McConachie- poetry

Content warning: #genocide. ‼️

On #WorldPoetryDay James McConachie’s ‘Meat Tray’ from Consolamentum. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...

On #WorldPoetryDay Matt Gilbert’s poem about Peregrine Falcons from ‘Street Sailing’ @richlyevocative.bsky.social

www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert

On #WorldPoetryDay

M.S. Evans with ‘Sleeping Rough Calgary’ ❄️ ✨

www.blackboughpoetry.com/nights-on-th...

‘Spring as a Facemask’ for #fragmentsfriday

#poem #poetry #writing #writingprompts #beauty #facemask #facialcleansing

Really useful example and notes from @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social about what to avoid in the quest to create quality #poetry.

Seeing language being used in a completely fresh way is definitely what makes me sit up and notice a poem.

If I’ve seen it before, I don’t want to see it again! 🤓

A tutorial on cliched writing

SHARE AWAY ‼️ I get asked about cliches in #poetry and what is a tired #poem. Here is an example I’ve written and a damning critique. Brace yourself #poets! 🚨 #writing

Grateful to The Book Bag for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social nomination!

Thank you @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social at @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social. I’m truly honoured that my poem was chosen. I appreciate the support and recognition.🤩

Congratulations to Swansea poet Guinevere Clark for her nomination to the @forwardprizes.bsky.social by Black Bough for #poem ‘Snow and the Alchemy of Pause’.

Congratulations to Leigh Anthony Manley for his nomination to the @forwardprizes.bsky.social for ‘Best Single Poem’ by Black Bough Poetry - a moving poem about a cemetery visit.

#writing #forwardprizes

Congratulations to Cardiff poet David Hanlon for his nomination for the @forwardprizes.bsky.social by Black Bough for his #poem ‘Two Headless Snowmen’ @vespertine4.bsky.social

#writing #poetry

Such are the weird and wonderful worlds of poetry and the creative arts - I had a message asking if a poem of mine ‘By St Teilo’s Waters’ could be set to music and performed by a Swansea choir. Surreal. This was first published by Arachne Press.

#poet #poetic #writing @arachnepress.bsky.social

Research on Robert Graves approved

I’ve had the ok to get my PhD published by a University Press. This has become a life goal over the years since I finished the research. Grateful and hope it goes ok. Book on Robert Graves and Wales.

#research #robertgraves #academic #writing

For one of the best mothers in the world, who is an amazing role model for our girls.

Thanks for the platform @tomsnarsky.bsky.social

#mothersdayspecial❤️ #mothersday #smallpoemsunday #poetry