Matt Gilbert
@richlyevocative.bsky.social
Poetry bothering, blog tinkering, place pondering, musically promiscuous, book-loving freelance copywriter. Likely to moan & rail at the unfairness & absurdity of life. Poetry links https://richlyevocative.net/articles-reviews-first-published-elsewhere/
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Matt Gilbert
@richlyevocative.bsky.social
· Nov 14
Time to reintroduce myself. I write a blog about place, books & other distractions - richlyevocative.net also a published poet - my collection Street Sailing came out last year @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social Some of my work has appeared recently in Stand, Acumen, Dust Northern Gravy & Southword.
I’ve updated my poetry links on link tree linktr.ee/richlyevocat...
So you can read some of my work online for free, buy copies of poetry journals I’ve appeared in, or even my book, Street Sailing. Have a picture of a fox in a cemetery…
So you can read some of my work online for free, buy copies of poetry journals I’ve appeared in, or even my book, Street Sailing. Have a picture of a fox in a cemetery…
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
I’ve updated my poetry links on link tree linktr.ee/richlyevocat...
So you can read some of my work online for free, buy copies of poetry journals I’ve appeared in, or even my book, Street Sailing. Have a picture of a fox in a cemetery…
So you can read some of my work online for free, buy copies of poetry journals I’ve appeared in, or even my book, Street Sailing. Have a picture of a fox in a cemetery…
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This beauty is out in the world, winging its way to our lovely subscribers. It's available to buy from Friday @carlosbardem.bsky.social @javiersierra.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social @jerrysimcock.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @blackcatpress.bsky.social #litmag #literary #reading
November 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This beauty is out in the world, winging its way to our lovely subscribers. It's available to buy from Friday @carlosbardem.bsky.social @javiersierra.bsky.social @cristinajurado.bsky.social @jerrysimcock.bsky.social @steverinod.bsky.social @blackcatpress.bsky.social #litmag #literary #reading
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And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Why Edge Of Darkness makes so much sense in 2025 | The Quietus
Judge Rogers speaks to several key members of the team who made the ecologically-minded thriller for the BBC
thequietus.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
And another! Stories and interviews with the team behind one of the BBC's greatest ever TV dramas – "a revenge thriller, a mystical nuclear-and-environmental-apocalypse fable, a clear-eyed political document of the mid-1980s, a ghost story" – by me for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/opinion-and-...
Watched Train Dreams yesterday - as my brother, who recommended it said - “it’s a poem of a film” Also made me cry, which the little bastard knew was likely to happen. Love, loss, the search for meaning in a changing world, landscape, trees. 🌳 on release or Netflix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_D...
Train Dreams (film) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Watched Train Dreams yesterday - as my brother, who recommended it said - “it’s a poem of a film” Also made me cry, which the little bastard knew was likely to happen. Love, loss, the search for meaning in a changing world, landscape, trees. 🌳 on release or Netflix en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_D...
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Get @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s critically acclaimed ‘Drench Me in Silver’.
Essential reading through the darkness and fires of winter. 🔥 🔥 🔥
shorturl.at/P4Bv2
Essential reading through the darkness and fires of winter. 🔥 🔥 🔥
shorturl.at/P4Bv2
November 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Get @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social’s critically acclaimed ‘Drench Me in Silver’.
Essential reading through the darkness and fires of winter. 🔥 🔥 🔥
shorturl.at/P4Bv2
Essential reading through the darkness and fires of winter. 🔥 🔥 🔥
shorturl.at/P4Bv2
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‘there is no daylight without erasure’
Get Louise Machen’s gripping, emotional collection ‘I Am Not Light’
shorturl.at/3Hd9V
@louloumach.bsky.social
Get Louise Machen’s gripping, emotional collection ‘I Am Not Light’
shorturl.at/3Hd9V
@louloumach.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:28 AM
‘there is no daylight without erasure’
Get Louise Machen’s gripping, emotional collection ‘I Am Not Light’
shorturl.at/3Hd9V
@louloumach.bsky.social
Get Louise Machen’s gripping, emotional collection ‘I Am Not Light’
shorturl.at/3Hd9V
@louloumach.bsky.social
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Enrich your winter reading with @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Enrich your winter reading with @racheldeering.bsky.social’s ‘In the Shadow of Gods’.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
www.blackboughpoetry.com/rachel-deering
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Take yourself to sunlit places this winter with James McConachie’s ‘Consolamentum’ - evocative, punchy, loaded poetry 🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Take yourself to sunlit places this winter with James McConachie’s ‘Consolamentum’ - evocative, punchy, loaded poetry 🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/consolamentu...
@jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social
I’ve read it, it’s really good (as @paulmcgrane.bsky.social would say - about his 😀)
Sail through the streets of London, through the suburbs, out into the wild places…and back again with Matt Gilbert.
www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert
@richlyevocative.bsky.social
www.blackboughpoetry.com/matt-gilbert
@richlyevocative.bsky.social
November 22, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I’ve read it, it’s really good (as @paulmcgrane.bsky.social would say - about his 😀)
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Memorable, elemental, visceral.
We miss Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social but have her words ❤️🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...
We miss Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social but have her words ❤️🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...
November 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Memorable, elemental, visceral.
We miss Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social but have her words ❤️🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...
We miss Sarah Connor @sarahsouthwest.bsky.social but have her words ❤️🔥
www.blackboughpoetry.com/sarah-connor...
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Get out on the trails and desert tracks.
🐍 🏜️ 🌵
Regine Ebner will take you into the baking deserts of Arizona, into the hills where the mountain lions stalk & right up close to the deadly click of the rattlesnake; those windswept, faded bordertowns ♥️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
🐍 🏜️ 🌵
Regine Ebner will take you into the baking deserts of Arizona, into the hills where the mountain lions stalk & right up close to the deadly click of the rattlesnake; those windswept, faded bordertowns ♥️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
November 22, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Get out on the trails and desert tracks.
🐍 🏜️ 🌵
Regine Ebner will take you into the baking deserts of Arizona, into the hills where the mountain lions stalk & right up close to the deadly click of the rattlesnake; those windswept, faded bordertowns ♥️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
🐍 🏜️ 🌵
Regine Ebner will take you into the baking deserts of Arizona, into the hills where the mountain lions stalk & right up close to the deadly click of the rattlesnake; those windswept, faded bordertowns ♥️
www.blackboughpoetry.com/regine-ebner...
#TheHauntedLandscape about to go in 👻
November 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
#TheHauntedLandscape about to go in 👻
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of reading glasses must be want of remembering to take the fucking things with him when on the way to a poetry reading.
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of reading glasses must be want of remembering to take the fucking things with him when on the way to a poetry reading.
‘If you didn’t know what a storm is’ This was first published in January by the always inspiring @inksweatandtears.co.uk There’s an icy bite in the air today and it reminded me.
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
‘If you didn’t know what a storm is’ This was first published in January by the always inspiring @inksweatandtears.co.uk There’s an icy bite in the air today and it reminded me.
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“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.
It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer…
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...
London's giant AI artwork to be torn down
The bizarre story of why a much-talked-about creation is being torn down. Plus: Docklands Light Railway extension, giant laser stalks the night sky, and more tales of Android phone theft rejection.
www.londoncentric.media
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
“There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” said the restaurant manager.
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Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - The Captain by @hannahl1n.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - The Captain by @hannahl1n.bsky.social
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If we’re unsure about an animal’s feelings, should we assume they don’t feel pain, or that they do? Moral concern often centres on sentient beings, but it can extend further. The challenge is to build and sustain policies that reflect both our compassion and our limitations
An ant is drowning: here’s how to decide if you should save it | Aeon Essays
Should we simply assume that all animals can feel pain and are of moral concern? Or is that taking things too far?
buff.ly
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
If we’re unsure about an animal’s feelings, should we assume they don’t feel pain, or that they do? Moral concern often centres on sentient beings, but it can extend further. The challenge is to build and sustain policies that reflect both our compassion and our limitations
Well, that’s that then…
Interesting post - especially for poets and pedants that are troubled by such questions.
Interesting post - especially for poets and pedants that are troubled by such questions.
I tried to do something that was (for me) quite a challenge: describe precisely how the word "that", in the right place, can make "all the difference" to a poem someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/that-vase
That Vase
Thinking about what "that" can do in a poem
someflowerssoon.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Well, that’s that then…
Interesting post - especially for poets and pedants that are troubled by such questions.
Interesting post - especially for poets and pedants that are troubled by such questions.
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Opportunity for people not already in the upcoming @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social winter/Christmas anthology!
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
#poetry #poetic
a snowman is standing in the snow with the words let it snow
ALT: a snowman is standing in the snow with the words let it snow
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November 15, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Opportunity for people not already in the upcoming @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social winter/Christmas anthology!
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Read all about the new issue here. Drops Nov 28th. Interviews, poems, poetry. Last subs day Sunday if you want a print copy on the day of release. #newissue #news #stars #coverreveal
themadridreview.com/f/rushdie-ho...
themadridreview.com/f/rushdie-ho...
Rushdie, Holmes and Cabellut Illuminate the new Madrid Review
In the new issue of The Madrid Review, publishing on November 28th, readers will encounter one of the magazine’s most ambitious and wide-ranging editions yet: a celebration of international literature...
themadridreview.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Read all about the new issue here. Drops Nov 28th. Interviews, poems, poetry. Last subs day Sunday if you want a print copy on the day of release. #newissue #news #stars #coverreveal
themadridreview.com/f/rushdie-ho...
themadridreview.com/f/rushdie-ho...
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What a beautiful anthology from The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, curated and co-edited by @marcellenewbold.bsky.social and Bronwen Evans. I was delighted to have a poem chosen alongside many wonderful poets.
Find out more about it here: www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
Find out more about it here: www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
November 12, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What a beautiful anthology from The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, curated and co-edited by @marcellenewbold.bsky.social and Bronwen Evans. I was delighted to have a poem chosen alongside many wonderful poets.
Find out more about it here: www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
Find out more about it here: www.theweesparrowpoetrypress.com/lines-of-com...
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...