Carolyn Thomas
@carolynthomas.bsky.social
Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Four featuring the work of @gillcresearch.bsky.social the880.substack.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Four featuring the work of Gill Connors
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August’s issue of The Candyman’s Trumpet includes brilliantly powerful work by Afghan women and it’s free to subscribe - just email jackcaradoctct@gmail.com Thrilled my pieces celebrating #champagne are also included #poetrycommunity #poetssupportpoets
Delighted to have three new poems within Alien Buddha Zine 89! 'In the Vinyl Store', 'Illegal' & 'Connection'. The poems touch upon subjects of connection & the ethics of legalese technical language in regard to human beings, contexts & emotions. Many thanks to @alienbuddhapress.bsky.social 🙏🏻
Delighted that my poem “I had a” is published in Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social alongside an excellent group of poets and artists. Thanks to the amazing head editor Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & editor Lowena Olver. A draft appeared on #poemsabout #poetrycommunity #Oulens …
I had a by C. Oulens — Full House Literary
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I am absolutely delighted that my poem Doorstep, both as text and a #poemsaloud recording, is in the wonderful online poetry magazine Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social My eternal thanks to the wonderful editors Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social & Lowena Olver. #poetrycommunity
Doorstep by Paul Connolly — Full House Literary
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Thanks so much to @parlyareepress.bsky.social for publishing my seventh book of poems. Out in September. I’ll post separately to thank the writers who have endorsed then book.
For this week's #PromptCombo for @rfsmith.bsky.social and the topic #RealPeople A recent poem of mine that was in The Candy man's Trumpet (thanks to editor and legend Jack Caradoc) for the Match 2026 issue about 'Family' All true.
This week's #PoemsAbout poem is for all poets currently dwelling in or on #CheapMotels ... @thebrokenspine.co.uk
Had started writing a dragon story, after a small chitchat with @carolynthomas.bsky.social but you can trust me to digress. Really grateful to Editor @jason-h-abbott.bsky.social , @scifansat.bsky.social for publishing my first short story. #Oulens #writingcommunity scifansat.com/bibi/?book=S...
Part reflective poem/part rage-rant, published in this anthology from Like a blot from the blue. Honoured to have words alongside @paulwritespoems.bsky.social @pdevonald.bsky.social @emteepoetry.bsky.social @rburrows.bsky.social @johnchmura.bsky.social @carolynthomas.bsky.social, and many others.
So thrilled to be here @iamb.uk Thanks @markantonyowen.com - I can’t wait to hear these wonderful poets! #poetry #spokenword #writing
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟@markantonyowen.com · 2mo agoDiscover who's joining special guest poet @robinince.bsky.social in wave twenty-six of @iamb.uk from June 15th onwards. Huge congratulations to all the poets who made the cut! 🥳
Cardiff Uni wants to scrap the 2nd floor of the Arts and Social Studies Library. We're talking 7km of books and vital study space gone to make way for classrooms. Please help us save this crucial campus resource before it's ripped out in June! Add your name here: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Stop Cardiff University from scrapping the ASSL's second floor!
thousands of books and crucial study spaces are at risk. Cardiff Uni wants to repurpose the busiest library on campus into classrooms. Help protect our library and sign the petition today.
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Guess who's going to have this 'Rooted' #Sculpture in an upcoming #June #PublicArt #expo in #Madrid? Yep! #International #Digital #Art #CollectiveDisplay
A real honour to be a small part of the wonderful lineup for this great #live event organised by the brilliant @paulwritespoems.bsky.social Do try to make it if you can - and even if you can’t, please download the #UnwhisperedLegacy PDF and make a contribution to MSF #poetrycommunity #poetryislife
Paul@paulwritespoems.bsky.social · 3mo agoFriday 7pm live via Zoom!!! Join me and a a stellar lineup of Poets sharing words from #UnwhisperedLegacy. Tickets 🎟️: shorturl.at/J2zUY
A brilliant collection 🤩
Matthew M C Smith@matthewmcsmith.bsky.social · 3mo ago🔥 🔥 🔥 RELEASED 🔥 🔥 🔥 ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.’ Edited by Matthew M C Smith & Kitty Donnelly with over 50 writers and art by Fran Williams. Earlybird price for one week. www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #eliot @tseliotfoundation.bsky.social
I love @thetoypress.bsky.social so I was delighted to have a poem and illustration accepted for the Celebration edition yesterday! Thank you EIC @writessue.bsky.social - it’s fab to be amongst so many poetry friends! #poetry #poetryforkids #writingforkids #kidlit #kidlituk
New release from @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social ! I'm thrilled to have a poem included in this exciting--and long awaited collection--"Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot's The Waste Land!" 🔥
Black Bough Poetry@blackboughpoetry.bsky.social · 3mo ago🔥 🔥 🔥 RELEASED 🔥 🔥 🔥 ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.’ Edited by @matthewmcsmith.bsky.social & Kitty Donnelly with over 50 writers & art by Fran Williams. Earlybird price - 1 week. www.blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragm... #eliot @tseliotfoundation.bsky.social
@hookland.bsky.social & @frankhudson.bsky.social (who also posted a version of the poem) inspired me to record Edward Thomas’s Adlestrop. Whenever I read it I’m struck of course by the shadows cast upon Thomas’s seemingly simple pastoral idylls but also by the poem’s oddity & ghostliness #poemsaloud
#SaveTheDate 19th April 2026 I'm delighted to announce that my Poet Page/Profile with 6 #poems will appear on the Sixty Odd Poets substack. Many Thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this possible! Link available on the day #PoetsOfBluesky #PoetryCommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout
In lieu of writing a new piece (I might manage something in the next day or two) here's an Ekphrastic piece to a painting entitled Eschatological. For #promptcombo #visions @rfsmith.bsky.social
Early childhood memory of a persistent nightmare and jumping into my parents’ bed. For #promptcombo & @rfsmith.bsky.social - thank you #poem #poetry #nightmare #nightterror
I am thrilled that @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social has published three longer pieces of mine on the wonderful @lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social They’re all #visions Millennial is urban, Worlds’ Ends concerns places & histories, & The Mark is folkloric. @rfsmith.bsky.social #promptcombo #poetrycommunity
Lothlorien Poetry Journal@lothlorienpoetryj.bsky.social · 4mo agoSharpen your claws, whet your fangs for this week's #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons 👹🔥 Use the hashtags & tag @dragonslayerma.bsky.social to get involved! #poetry #prompt #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #PoetsOfBluesky
Fidel Walsh@dragonslayerma.bsky.social · 4mo ago#PromptCombo It's #NatureHasWeapons I want Nature's drama this week, wordsmiths Tag me & use my hastags. Otherwise, I won't see you! You have till Friday lunchtime to get involved. 💚🌬 @rfsmith.bsky.social @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social @victoriaspires.bsky.social @janpsolivagant.bsky.social
Big thanks to @zoomburst.substack.com for making this happen! Six #Poems: Bars in #Bardo #Brutalist buildings #Necromancy #Baudelaire meets #Mabinogi #EelPieIsland Shoutout to #poetrycommunity #PromptCombo #PoemsAbout for your support over the past year or so of my #poetry journey!
Mike O’Brien@zoomburst.substack.com · 4mo agoOur good friend Jan Peters @janpsolivagant.bsky.social is on #SixtyOdd Poets today. get yourself a cuppa, click on the link, and settle down to read some great #poetry.
Hi @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Fidel. Have a great week. My response to your timely #PromptCombo #NatureHasWeapons is a sonnet from my forthcoming (May 1st) collection with Culture Matters Press, "In Your Mouth":
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Welcome To The Wombwell Rainbow Ekphrastic Challenge 2026 featuring 16 creatives responding to 3 artworks a day, over 30 days. Artworkers are Phil Hyde, Francis H Powell and Molly Ovenden. Day Twenty-...
GHP22 Holidaymakers MO22 FHP22 MO22 Reaching Into Darkness Stretching through the tempest of my mind, hoping for answers to questions I’ve not yet learned to find. I claw my way through the tangled…
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Born on this day in 1943, the late Louise Glück was a fascinating poet. To commemorate her birthday, here’s an old thread of mine on her brilliant approach to using myth 👇
Paul Connolly@thepaulconnolly.bsky.social · last yr.Some writers seek ‘relatability’ in ancient myth. Others look to recreate alien remoteness. But in her use of Homeric or bible tales, Louise Glück sets up dialogue between her own family relations & mythic ones. The latter aren’t lazily appropriated. Rather the immediate & the mythic mutually enrich
