Caroline Smith
Shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for ‘The Immigration Handbook’(Seren). Refugee caseworker. Lives in Wembley. ‘Bycatch’ published by Nine Arches Press Oct 2025. Hawthornden Fellow 2025. CarolineSmithpoet.com
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- Thank you so much for sharing this. 😊
- Can’t wait for this! Please join us. 😊
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- Thank you so much. So pleased it resonated with you. 💜
- I spent my weekend with Bycatch by @csmithpoet.bsky.social (@ninearchespress.bsky.social). These poems about caring for elderly parents, exploring memory and home, are raw, intimate, and intricately captured. This collection will stay with me for a long time! 💙
- Many congratulations! @ninearchespress.bsky.social are fantastic publishers to be a part of. 👏
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- In festive mood signing books at Queen’s Park Bookshop today! Thank you @qpbooks.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
- Definitely worth getting! I have 😊
- Our 2025 titles are now available together as a perfect #poetry book bundle, celebrating our brilliant year of publishing. Just £84.99📚 Incl books by @troycabida.bsky.social @csmithpoet.bsky.social @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social @tomsastry.bsky.social ninearchespress.com/shop
- Do join us if you are in Rickmansworth, Chesham, Watford area! Chorleywood is a lovely place 😊
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- Guess who I bumped into at The Poetry Pharmacy in Oxford Street! What an amazing place of seductive aromas, enticing poetry books and warm hospitality. Lovely to sign books together and read poems. 😊Thank you @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social @troycabida.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
- Thank you for organising it! 😊
- Great if you can join us!
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- Reposted by Caroline Smith⚡FLASH SALE - titles from earlier this year now just £7.99 each. Save 33% on these celebrated #poetry books now. Plus FREE UK postage across the shop. Come on in: ninearchespress.com/shop Including books by @tomsastry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social & @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
- So looking forward to reading with my fellow poets @troycabida.bsky.social @jessmookherjee.bsky.social I can’t wait to hear them read their work. Do join us this Thursday 13th November! 🎉@ninearchespress.bsky.social
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- Beautiful. I can feel myself there. X
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- I am so delighted you are coming Sari. We read together at The Magma launch in the summer. I loved your poem then and can’t wait to read a collection by you. See you soon! 😊
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- Terrible train journey but worth it! Wonderful Festival! 💐 @ninearchespress.bsky.social
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- Happy National Poetry Day! ❤️ A poem from ‘Bycatch’ my new collection out next Thursday with @ninearchespress.bsky.social #nationalpoetryday #nationalpoetryday2025
- I have a poem in the Canadian journal @arcpoetry.bsky.social… ‘This volume gathers voices that echo across time and space - some whispering, some roaring, some weeping, all resonant.’ .. ‘Ocean World’ will also be in my new collection Bycatch. Out on 9th Oct! with @ninearchespress.bsky.social
- Thanks Sari for that lovely comment. I’d love you to come to the launch if you are in the UK on 16th October. ☺️
- On Alzheimer’s Day My poem ‘Forest Canopy’ from my new collection, ‘Bycatch’ out on October 9th with @ninearchespress.bsky.social ‘Bycatch’ charts the process of aging, dementia and the loss of language #alzheimersday #alzheimersawareness
- Thank you 😊
- Thrilled if you can join us for my first Reading from BYCATCH. Delighted to be sharing the evening with poet Erica Hesketh. Thank you Brent Libraries for making possible this free community event. Hope to see you there! 😊
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- Looking forward to my copy dropping through the letterbox! Many congratulations 👏
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- That’s very kind of you Julian ☺️
- Thanks sari ☺️
- My poem Chrism that won 2nd prize in Indigo Spring Poetry Competition! Now published in Reach Poetry. Thank you judge @vickygwriter.bsky.social & @indigodreamspub.bsky.social It is just one of the poems in my new collection Bycatch forthcoming in October with @ninearchespress.bsky.social
- A beautiful poem like this one by Malene Engelund will linger with me for days. Another great edition of @poetrylondon.bsky.social
- My new book, ‘Bycatch’ is out in October. But you can pre-order it now with free postage! 😊
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- Ha! Thank you Lucy. I’ll never forget that month - which enabled me to finish this book! 😊
- Publication Day feels all the closer! Very excited to reveal the cover of my new collection, ‘Bycatch’ 🎉
- Thank you so much Sari. I hope you’ll come to the launch! X
- I was there too. Agree - it was incredible 👏👏
- Thank you! It was a fantastic evening - chatted to so many interesting people.
- It was a fantastic evening! Loved the chance to read my poem and enjoyed every single poem that poets read. Such a great turn out. Thank you @magmapoetry.bsky.social for organising this 👏💐
- I’ll need a poetry suitcase this summer holiday! @ninearchespress.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social @julwe1.bsky.social @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social
- Very pleased to have a poem in Magma 92.😊So many great angles on the theme! @ninearchespress.bsky.social
- My love poem in The Passionfruit Review ❤️@passionfruitlit.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
- The wonderful Tree Bumble Bee - bombus hypnorum enjoying some lavender in the sun ❤️
- My first visit to Ushuaia Ibiza ! Getting a shout out from my DJ son @cameronjackmusic ❤️ @ushuaiainfo.bsky.social @ninearchespress.bsky.social
- Beautiful. Thanks for flagging - I’ll get the collection. 👍
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