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Matthew M C Smith
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Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
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This year’s anthology will available, once again, in hardback. Coming out in the next couple of days!
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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I have had a peek and it’s brilliant! ❄️❄️❄️

#poetry
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Super grateful to the @madridlitmag.bsky.social for choosing a poem of mine for their stunning new issue, which is out now ❤️
November 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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When nothing in life can be normal when there is butchery, extermination, forced starvation and genocide.

#gaza #gazaunderattack #genoci̇dei̇ngaza #genocide #gazachildren
November 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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#Swanseafringe with Mark Lyndon, Rob Mckain and Jamie Woods (great hair)

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November 29, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Out in the next few days, our 6th Christmas anthology with a whole host of amazing poets and the illustrations of Emma Bissonnet.
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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A labour of love 🕯️ ❤️‍🔥 🕯️

Incredible writers and a super artist!

Hopefully out end of the week 📖 💝
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A proof copy of our Christmas-Winter anthology no. 6, which should be available by the end of the week!

Cover and artwork by Gower artist Emma Bissonnet

🌟 💫 🌟 💫 🌟 💫 🌟

❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️ ❄️

#poetry #Christmas #books #xmas #winter
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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'How different it would be
if they were
Instagrammable,
non-Muslim,
milky-white
babies,
yummy mummies'
precious cargo'

Foodbanks, Gaza, hopelessness, racism & unconscious bias.

#poetry #writingcommunity #poetic #writing #Gaza #Foodbanks
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Out winter anthology from last year in paperback and hardback with artwork by Emma Bissonnet 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️

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November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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‘rife. dark. organ-blood tinged’ 🩸

@jakkybankong-obi.bsky.social’s #SilverBranch feature.

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November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Last year’s Christmas - Winter anthology featuring Matthew Hollis, a dazzling array of poetic talent, and artwork by Emma Bissonnet.

❄️ 🧊 🐻‍❄️ 🌟 🌊

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November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Introducing our fourth Christmas -
Winter anthology from two years ago with stunning artwork by Emma Bissonnet

🎄 📖 💝 🧝‍♀️ 🎅 🛷 ❄️ 🤶

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November 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Introducing our third Christmas - Winter anthology from three year ago. With beautiful artwork by Emma Bissonnet

🧊 ❄️ ⛄️ 🪵 🔥 🎁

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November 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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Introducing our very first Christmas - Winter anthology, 5 years ago, with EmmaBissonnet’s gorgeous artwork.
❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️ 🔥 ❄️

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November 24, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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Shoutout if you’re up for submitting in the new year for our Christmas & winter anthology! This year’s anthology is out very soon!!! @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
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November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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I have just typed up a load of my #TopTweetTuesday poems from my Twitter feed and I have over forty poems almost enough for a collection !
Huge thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social and all the Top Tweet poets. #poetry @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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A.I. Language giveaway.

When the phrase ‘stands as a testament to’ is used and ‘it’s not this and it’s not this, it’s that….’

Annoying and almost everywhere!
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November 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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A new poem - about the almost-invisble male volunteer at the charity shop.

‘The Retired Volunteer Has Nothing to Give’.
November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
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**CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!**

Today, @afterpoetry.com reveals which poems it will publish throughout 2026.

Picking 17 poets from more than 130 submissions was no easy task – so well done to all who made it through selection.

Are you in? Here's where to find out ...

afterpoetry.com/index/poems/...
All Poems | 2026 | After... Poems inspired by other art
See the full index of ekphrastic poems published by After... in 2026
www.afterpoetry.com
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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New poem - ‘Trip Partners’

#poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #newpoem #writingcommunity
November 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Share, like, boost in whatever way if you would like another Christmas and winter anthology next year - 2026 (and therefore a submission period in the new year) 🎅 🖊️ 📑 💻 ❄️ 🦌 ⛄️ 🎄 🪵 🔥 🎁 💝
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November 14, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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It's Saturday! I am freeing up a few pages for last minute winter poems for people NOT already in this Christmas- winter anthology. Can you post up to three poems in a social media post and include the hashtag @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social - I can only take a few, sorry!

#poetry #poetic
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November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Short biographies being completed for the proof copy of the Black Bough Christmas-winter anthology, no. 6!

Bios usually take 2-3 hrs to do.

🎄🤶❄️🔔🎁📖
November 13, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Christmas is coming!
❄️ 🛷 ❄️
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Short biographies being completed for the proof copy of the Black Bough Christmas-winter anthology, no. 6!

Bios usually take 2-3 hrs to do.

🎄🤶❄️🔔🎁📖
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 AM
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This years Christmas-Winter anthology is a bumper 50 pages more than last year's. That can mean only one thing! More poems!

Art work by Gower artist Emma Bissonnet.
November 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM