We’d love to find a hundred more homes for Rachel Deering’s enchanting and mysterious nature poetry collection. Can you help us? 👇 thanks for all those who have bought and boosted the book 🙏

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Congratulations Rachel Deering and Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu - this is fantastic news. ✨✨✨

When Jedi Lord Matthew M C Smith praises your work - it keeps you shining all week!

✨Today’s poem✨ is Libation for Mother by Saraswati Nagpal.

Saraswati Nagpal

(If reading on a phone, you may find adjusting your reader settings/ switching to desktop view restores the intended structure and linebreaks of the poem)

Read it here: dustpoetry.co.uk/post/libation-…

For TopTweetTuesday and Jedi master Matthew M C Smith here's my poem 'Rebirth' on physical and emotional changes in middle age. Happy hosting, Matt!

How good is Alice Stainer 😮

‘The world is weighted, somnolent, / brandy-soaked’

Bloody hell, what a writer she is.

A bit late to sharing day for 'In Flight'... here's my poem 'Chai' - a portrait of India's partition survivors. In Flight is published by Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu guest edited by marcelle newbold poems and EIC Matthew M C Smith More about it here: blackboughpoetry.com/in-flight-edit…

I’m travelling and sorry to miss TopTweetTuesday today… and especially insightful feedback from the remarkable Jen Feroze 💙 but perhaps I’ll make a midnight deadline. Looking forward to reading all the great poems this week! 🌷

A blissful evening with poets and their work 🌷

Here's my poem 'Daylilies' inspired by stunning artwork SEB27 by Sara Elizabeth Bell SB's Artistrees as part of the #EkphrasticChallenge2024 from Paul Brookes Paul Brookes

Join us on Zoom next Sunday 28th April, 6.30PM, UK time, to launch 'In flight', a stunning edition of poetry starring Gillian Clarke , 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 , Saraswati Nagpal, Yvonne Marjot is in Gil-galad braid era, @merrildsmith, @jaredmulhair, David Hay Iris Anne Lewis & more!
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Looking forward to the launch of Black Bough Poetry's 'In Flight' this Sunday. It will be past bedtime for me in India, but I'll be there... sheaf in one hand, chai in the other... 💜 Join us here... eventbrite.ie/e/in-flight-po…

#shakespeare

=and so wild in their attire=

today's fashionable young witches
only out for instagain
stranded on a windswept tor
sans thunder, lightning, or rain
two commenting on artful hair
one balanced on a gargoyle tree
praying for a ghost, or a signal
from three

#poetry

A midnight submission on a full moon for this week's Shakespearean TopTweetTuesday - fitting as I have picked the visitation of Banquo's ghost to MacBeth.
Thanks for hosting Matt Gilbert

For this #Shakespeare challenge and TopTweetTuesday amazing host Matt Gilbert. Have a cracking day, Matt.

A poem riffing on Shakespeare's line, 'All the world's a stage'... I once had a music teacher give me a tiny piece of gilded plaster from the old stage at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. I kept that bit of stardust in a locket. TopTweetTuesday Matt Gilbert

It's Shakespeare challenge at TopTweetTuesday
Ty to the eminent host of this affair Matt G.: Matt Gilbert, Black Bough Maestro Matthew Matthew M C Smith and all participants between Heaven and Earth on a bright day during the sequence of #NationalPoetryMonth c. 2024. Ty. R.❤️‍🔥

For TopTweetTuesday and host Matt Matt Gilbert please find my attempt to meet the brief; I hesitate to write on such a towering genius. The focus here is Sonnet 18 and 33; loss..

A big 'Hey Ho' Matt Gilbert today's host
TopTweetTuesday Hope you're having a great day. Not sure if my offering 'Code Shakespeare' works but sure it's a bit of hey nonny nonny fun for the day. Can't wait to catch up with everything this evening. Thanks very much Matt😊🌹☀️

‘Doubt thou stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love’ ~ Hamlet. TopTweetTuesday Matt Gilbert
🖼️ Millais