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Matthew M C Smith
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Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
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Poem for Friday. Quick write.

#thedoors
January 23, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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thewombwellrainbow.com/2023/05/11/w... I try to avoid explaining individual poems & leave meaning to the reader, but if you’re interested in a more general overview of my approach to poetry, this interview with @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social is a great place to start
Wombwell Rainbow Book Interviews: Street Sailing by Matt Gilbert
Matt Gilbert is a freelance copywriter, who also writes a blog at richlyevocative.net about place, books, poetry and other distractions. Originally from Bristol, he currently gets his fill of urban…
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January 22, 2026 at 12:24 PM
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Deadpool and Wolverine of the poetry community🤩
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Meeting of #poet-friends - @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and I - editorial team for the next Christmas - winter anthology.

Paul edits The Book Bag 💼 📖 📚
January 20, 2026 at 10:46 PM
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Meeting of #poet-friends - @paulwritespoems.bsky.social and I - editorial team for the next Christmas - winter anthology.

Paul edits The Book Bag 💼 📖 📚
January 20, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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‘The poet dresses the impossibly-perfect mannequin in the window of fabrication’

🖊️ 💎

The prompt this week on Twitter’s TopTweetTuesday is ‘egotistical sublime’ and here’s a poem about the idea of originality and poetic genius.
January 20, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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New poem. The illusion of spring.

#poetry #poetry #poetic #writing
January 19, 2026 at 11:24 AM
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🛎️ CALL for POETRY SUBMIS*IONS 🛎️

Christmas-winter anthology 2026
👇
www.blackboughpoetry.com/events

#writing #poetry #poet #poetic #writers #poetic
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 AM
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Fabulous news! 💙 My poems "Horseshoe Crab Blood" and "Becoming a Galaxy" are accepted for The Book Bag x Write Here, Right Now Unwhispered Legacy Anthology! Thank you so much @paulwritespoems.bsky.social

#poetry #poetrysky
January 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
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For #smallpoemsunday and host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social a new poem ‘Plaintive’. Thanks Tom.

#poetry #writing #poet #smallpoem #micropoem
January 18, 2026 at 7:46 AM
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‘And on a dark night,
I am not a refuge for myself’

@racheldeering.bsky.social from ‘In the Shadow of Gods’

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January 17, 2026 at 8:53 AM
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‘When Babylon has fallen,
we will love and recall the salt-slap,
cold linen, on burnished oak.’

James McConachie from ‘Consolamentum’ @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social

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January 17, 2026 at 9:05 AM
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Tickets Available Now.

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January 16, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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‘The hounds in that house, stirred in the kish of the tremor’

Before the monster Grendel attacked the great hall.

For #TopTweetTuesday and our theme - tales for children 👹

#norse #beowulf #myth
January 13, 2026 at 8:34 AM
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For #smallpoemsunday and host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social a tribute to lovely, shiny, Turkey #teeth 🦷

#poem #poetic #micropoem #dentistry
January 11, 2026 at 12:32 PM
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Many thanks to Black Bough Poetry and @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social for including this in the excellent new Winter Anthology.
January 10, 2026 at 7:11 AM
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Poetry publication opportunity - call from Wed 28th January to Sun 1st Feb.

Normal submis*ions are submit up to 3 poems but you can submit 5 if you bought our current anthology ❄️ 🦌

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January 8, 2026 at 7:39 AM
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Thank you, @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems for publishing “Winterspell” in the glorious Christmas & Winter anthology. I am elated to share these pages with so many talented poet colleagues. Happy New Year to all! 🌟
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‘the swaddled-sun reborn in a blaze’ ☀️ 🔥

@gjgreenlea.bsky.social in our Christmas and winter anthology www.blackboughpoetry.com/news
January 7, 2026 at 12:59 PM
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‘Those black pens politicians use to sign bombs will turn into vipers’ 🖊️ 🐍

‘the sky will throng with rainbows and an unruly Druid flashmob’ 🌈

@fiddes.bsky.social in our Christmas - Winter anthology

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January 9, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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‘We press lucent hours into winter’s book’ 📖 ❄️ 🌒

@dizzylynn.bsky.social in our Christmas - Winter anthology

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January 9, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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‘Brycheiniog’s sting of rumfire cheek’

‘The acid reflux of excess’

‘A ribboned skull and rarebit verse’

Leigh Manley in our Christmas - Winter anthology. ❄️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🔥 🥃

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January 9, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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‘Underhill Park, a pelt on the season’s belt’ 🌳 🌲 ❄️

‘Mumbles hushed’ 🌊 🤫

‘A cave of flowers waits to rise’ 🌺

Manda Eliot with ‘Winter Petals’, set in Swansea. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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January 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
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‘Salads dwindle and soup steams’ 🥣

‘Making layers of summer’s T-shirts’ ☀️

Sue Spires’s ‘Three Ways into Winter’ ❄️

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January 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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‘It Rains with Wings’ by Regine Ebner

‘we lay down our swords
and make peace
with the cowboy moon.’

From ‘Mountains that See in the Dark’

🤠 🌙 🇺🇸

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January 9, 2026 at 9:31 PM
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Wonderful session with great poets. Thanks to @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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‘Dark chocolate deltas on a sepia sky’ - Polly Oliver in the Christmas-Winter anthology 🧊 ❄️ 🦴

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January 7, 2026 at 6:03 AM