Writer. Campaigner for Paviland relics to come back to Swansea. PhD Robert Graves. Author of ‘The Keeper of Aeons’, ed. Black Bough.
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🔥 🔥 🔥 RELEASED 🔥 🔥 🔥
‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.’
Edited by @MatthewMCSmith & Kitty Donnelly with over 50 writers and art by Fran Williams. Earlybird price for one week.
blackboughpoetry.com/shored-…
#eliot #wasteland @TSEliotSocUK
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For #smallpoemsunday and super host @TomSnarsky ‘Witnessing Body’
#poetrylovers #prayer #poets #poetrytwitter
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My father would have been 78 yesterday. ❤️🔥
For #fragmentsfriday ‘Father, I recount’
#poetry #fathers #sons #writing #fathersday #poetrylovers #grief
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Tim Fellows, @IrisAnneLewis and @ellierees23 at the ‘Shored Fragments’ launch last night 🎙️ 📖
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Matt Gilbert, @ArcCreativeArts Clare O’Brien & @RegineEbner at our ‘Shored Fragments’ launch last night 🎤 📖
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This will be a brilliant evening 👇
This Wednesday 10th June, you are cordially invited to the online Zoom launch of ‘Shored Fragments’.
Get booking, get inspired by our poems
in response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.
👇 👇 👇
shorturl.at/asE2f
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Matthew M C Smith retweeted
This Wednesday 10th June, you are cordially invited to the online Zoom launch of ‘Shored Fragments’.
Get booking, get inspired by our poems
in response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.
👇 👇 👇
shorturl.at/asE2f
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Inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘The Mountain’, a rushed poem this morning, ‘The Sea’ for @TopTweetTuesday
#poem #poetrylovers #poet #writing
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This Wednesday 10th June, you are cordially invited to the online Zoom launch of ‘Shored Fragments’.
Get booking, get inspired by our poems
in response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.
👇 👇 👇
shorturl.at/asE2f
#eliot #spokenword #poetrylovers #modernism
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In Wales, we don’t have to get too excited when a celebrity actor or superstar comes here. We don’t need the external validation of the entertainment or other industries - we can just be.
#wales #welsh #welshidentity
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For #smallpoemsunday ‘Pagan’s Sunset’ - thanks to @TomSnarsky for curating this platform.
#poetry #prayer #rhossili #sunset
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Cheltenham-based poet @AnnaSaund1 will be reading poems from her latest #poetry collection and past greatest hits THIS Monday, online, as the Black Bough guest of honour. Book now for an open mic slot or audience ticket. @Cheltpoetfest
eventbrite.co.uk/e/black-bou…
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My review of the latest @poetrywales for @blackboughpoems book of the month. Mentions for @danielsluman, Laura Wainwright, Arthur Sze, James McConachie and more.
Strong balance between Welsh writers and international 👏
Get a subscription.
blackboughpoetry.com/book-re…
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Make sure you get the summer's hottest poetry anthology in 2026, 'Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot's The Waste Land':
blackboughpoetry.com/shored-…
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I loved editing this poetry collection and you should all have it on your bedside table and fuel your dreams each night with @SaraswatiNagpal's words.
tinyurl.com/pspw74nv
#indianpoetry #poetry #poetic #writing #writingcommunity
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Well, I could choose #fragmentsfriday 1st, 2nd and 3rd now but there's hours left so must keep an open mind!
#poetry #poetryprompt #writing
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