Black Bough Poetry
Welsh poetry press based in Swansea with a focus on imagist poetry. Edited by Matthew M C Smith
- TopTweetTuesday challenge next week on Tuesday - Twitter only. #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #writingprompts
- Final day for #Christmas #winter anthology 2026. #poetry #submissions #writing blackboughpoetry.com/events
- ‘song bubbling out like smoke from the rim of a long-cool chimney.’ 🎶 Matt Gilbert’s ‘Goldfinched’ from his collection ‘Street Sailing’ @richlyevocative.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert
- ‘they will not fruit, but fail, around the fading progress of the desert moon.’ 🌙 James McConachie from his collection ‘Consolamentum’. @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
- ‘we do not test the fragility of joy, or pit it against the human condition, when we are beneath the suthering of a blackbird's wings’ 🪽 @racheldeering.bsky.social from collection ‘In the Shadow of Gods.’ www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
- ‘Only small pockets of light remain, bound by the deep sapphire blue of vanishing time. We warm ourselves with candles and logs gravely burning.’ Regine Ebner from ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’ 🔥 🕯️ 🪵 www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
- ‘At night, we open the cellar’s hatch, to let the shifts of spirits pass.’ 👻 M.S. Evans’s ‘Copper Hill’ from ‘Nights on the Line’, cover art by Kit Boyd. @kitboyd.bsky.social www.blackboughpoetry.com/nights-on-th...
- ‘The sweet swoosh of wings’ ‘death’s radiant whisper’ @rhonagreene.bsky.social new year #SilverBranch feature. Check it out! www.blackboughpoetry.com/christma-new...
- Yeah, go on, check out the latest newsletter. www.blackboughpoetry.com/so/90PmJC8IP... #poetrynews #poetry #writing #poetic #workshops #writingcommunity
- Final submission weekend for next year’s Christmas and Winter anthology! Sat 31st Jan and Sun 1st Feb! ⛄️ ❄️ 🔔 www.blackboughpoetry.com/events
