Recently, I've started writing poetry for teenagers after reading about a young person who committed suicide.

Thank you @traceyrhys.bsky.social for your kind words. BLACK SKIES DIE STARLESS comes out in 10 days. Pre-order from PunkDust.com or ask your local bookshop. @jamiewoods77.bsky.social is reading at Elysium Swansea on June 26th, more dates tba. #NewPoetry #WelshPoetry #BlackSkiesDieStarless

A new poetry collection by @parthianbooks.bsky.social and Welsh writer Tracey Rhys. @traceyrhys.bsky.social ‘ I can take the slow form of droplets on your glass’.

Always a pleasure, butty 😁 It’s a great collection 😍

Read this Very Good collection by my pal @traceyrhys.bsky.social and it is Very Good but also a peak out of context comedy moment.

A #LifttotheSky #PoemsAbout #poetrycommunity to @traceyrhys.bsky.social for her brilliant debut collection @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Can't wait to join Rhian and Christina on the 19th. Book your free ticket as spaces are limited.

Cardiff Hubs & Libraries@cdflibraries.bsky.social · last yr.

Experience acclaimed new poetry on Thursday 19th June, as we welcome three wonderful writers to @cardiff-hub.bsky.social: @traceyrhys.bsky.social, Rhian Elizabeth and Christina Thatcher. Read more and register for free here: tinyurl.com/yrcxyc5e

Looking forward to this!

Cardiff Hubs & Libraries@cdflibraries.bsky.social · last yr.

Poetry line-up of the summer, anyone? Enjoy brand new work from @traceyrhys.bsky.social, Christina Thatcher and Rhian Elizabeth on Thursday 19/06 at @cardiff-hub.bsky.social! Tickets are free at www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs... @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Unrhyw un eisiau gweld rhestr o farddoniaeth yr haf? Mwynhewch waith newydd sbon gan @traceyrhys.bsky.social, Christina Thatcher a Rhian Elizabeth ddydd Iau 19/06 yn @cardiff-hub.bsky.social! Mae’r tocynnau am ddim yn www.ticketsource.co.uk/cardiff-hubs...

For #ToptweetTuesday #reviews here are my thoughts on the excellent debut from @traceyrhys.bsky.social @parthianbooks.bsky.social

A pleasure to be at the launch of @traceyrhys.bsky.social and Christina Thatcher's latest collections from @parthianbooks.bsky.social, hosted by poetry editor @soozerama.bsky.social. Reviews below alongside @pascalepetit.bsky.social from @mabjones.bsky.social 👇

Bloodaxe Books@bloodaxebooks.bsky.social · last yr.

'Family and the feral entwine, and trauma is not evaded but embraced, examined, and often transformed into dreamlike – nightmarish – yet also lyric imagery […] A remarkable work.’ – @mabjones.bsky.social, Buzz, on @pascalepetit.bsky.social's ninth collection Beast. www.buzzmag.co.uk/new-poetry-m...

nation.cymru/culture/on-b... On writing, growing up in the Rhondda Valleys, box perms, Home & Away twice daily and a lot of 80s and 90s nostalgia.

On Being a Poet in Wales: Tracey Rhys

Tracey Rhys A friend recently asked if I still felt an attachment to the place I grew up, and for a moment I was thrown. Only the Bwlch mountain separates Bridgend County, where I now live, from the R...

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Wonderful launch of Christina Thatcher's Breaking a Mare and my own Bathing on the Roof at Waterstones Cardiff on Thursday. Such warmth! It felt dream-like to introduce my book to you.

I'm in the Western Mail Weekend magazine today talking about Bathing on the Roof! Many thanks to Jenny White for giving me the opportunity to talk about the evolution of the book. Out now from @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Get yourself to this, Cardiff. Two very fine poets and lovely people. 🙂 Something positive and full of craft and heart, in troubled times.

Tracey Rhys@traceyrhys.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'll be launching my first full collection on April 10 at Waterstones Cardiff with fellow Parthian stablemate, the superb Christina Thatcher. We would love love LOVE to see you there! www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...

Many disabled people spent 14 years holding on, surviving Tory cruelty, by focusing on 'if we can just get a Labour gov, this will stop'. I can't describe the community's betrayal and hopelessness now it's turned out Labour not only haven't stopped, they're going further. #WelfareNotWarfare 1/

I've made a late-night recording (it was 11pm so I do look a bit knackered) of one of my poems from the new collection. This one is about multiple miscarriages so bear that in mind if you feel it might upset you. youtu.be/2P1qQhMQY3E?...

The Butterfly House by Tracey Rhys

YouTube video by Tracey Rhys

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I'll be launching my first full collection on April 10 at Waterstones Cardiff with fellow Parthian stablemate, the superb Christina Thatcher. We would love love LOVE to see you there! www.waterstones.com/events/poetr...

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"Oxwich doesn’t wave its past in your face; it lets you stumble upon it. What it is, is a gentle, constant presence – a place that lets the bay and the cliffs do all the shouting while it leans back, waiting for you to notice just how much it has to say."

Hello Monday. 🖼️ William Joyce

The ghosts of the starlings.

One of the best ways to improve your own #poetry is to read other people's. I've really enjoyed the inventiveness & imagination in @janeburn.bsky.social 's new collection 'The Apothecary of Flight' published by @ninearchespress.bsky.social Here's a snippet from a poem I love. Congrats, Jane.

Ooh @corinnaboard.bsky.social has compiled 2 lists of poetry magazines so that's incredibly useful. If you look her page and click 'Starter Packs' you'll find both lists.

Corinna Board@corinnaboard.bsky.social · 2y ago

Added a few more, including the wonderful @ninearchespress.bsky.social @serenbooks.bsky.social and @parthianbooks.bsky.social

Hey there #writers! Just sharing this week's #writing opportunities - including an upcoming @alcs-uk.bsky.social deadline, and a prize from @societyofauthors.bsky.social. Good luck! 🤞 halekatie.substack.com/p/five-thing...

Five Things Friday: issue 2

BBC, Society of Authors & ALCS - and a chance to win £10,000 for your writing

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Here in Aotearoa it's Trans Day Of Remembrance. Every year, we light the candle Cate was gifted in Thailand, pour love & memory into the flicker & smoke, let it reach the dead. And we cry. This year, in the current shadow, more than ever. Friends, how we love you. Stay with us, any way you can.

Morning Tracy ~ now look what you gone and done ….

I'm very much looking forward to reading with the Parthian crew outside the Poetry Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye over the Hay Festival Winter Weekend. It's Saturday November 30th. Come and see us!

For poets & artists, Bluesky right now feels like a family reunion, but a mythical one you *actually want to go to* & by this I even mean us introverts, a double miracle.