Matthew M C Smith

🔥 🔥 🔥 RELEASED 🔥 🔥 🔥 ‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.’ Edited by @MatthewMCSmith & Kitty Donnelly with over 50 writers and art by Fran Williams. Earlybird price for one week. blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragmen… #eliot #wasteland @TSEliotSocUK

The reference to 'imperious mean' is a nod to Robert Graves's poem 'The White Goddess' and Apollo's golden 'mean'.

For @TopTweetTuesday and our three writer prompts, here is 'Legacies' inspired the Emperor of the Abstract, the almost-incomparable Wallace Stevens, a writer whose work I have come to love over the years. This is inspired by 'Sunday Morning'... #wallacestevens #modernism #poetry

Really enjoyed this edition of @poetrywales - worth a book of the month. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #poetry #poetic #poet #writing @LitWales

An extract from a poem by @MatthewMCSmith from ‘Shored Fragments…’ blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragmen… #eliot #modernism #thewasteland

@MatthewMCSmith on one of this week’s inspirational writers on TopTweetTuesday - Wallace Stevens. #poetry #writing #modernism

@TedUrchin @jimmichaelryan @UKLabour Sadiq Khan

Who should be the leader of the Labour Party and hence the Prime Minister? Please retweet. @UKLabour

For #smallpoemsunday ‘1.0’ #poetry #writing #micropoem #becoming #craft

If you enjoy #fragmentsfriday and @TopTweetTuesday please boost us by getting a copy of our latest anthology, ‘Shored Fragments…’ blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragmen…

A snippet from ‘Shored Fragments…’ our anthology responding to Eliot’s The Waste Land, available on Amazon. blackboughpoetry.com/shored-fragmen… #poetry #eliot #modernism

‘Afonydd’ (Arachne Press) out in the wild in Hay on Wye.

@themandalorian film is worth watching. A pacy thriller with a ripped Jabba the Hutt offspring (!) Grogu and Mando are the best things about it. Pedro Pascal has a great voice under the mask and Grogu was there for the sighs. 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

@ShafiekReggiori Mysterious, subterfuge

#FragmentsFriday A Wren holds firm the night in its intoxication Consanant intervals/octaves in a perfext song At the knee, time bent backward Then, now—the wisp of evening slanders Shadows evocated to misspelled qualms Mirrors are covered with cloth

@sentientones Profound. Thoughtful

Desire and duty met at the roundabout asked each other what goes in does the same reach out? #fragmentsfriday

@ArtistDora @blackboughpoems Abstract snapshots of thought and image

@blackboughpoems for #FragmentsFriday special thanks to @MatthewMCSmith for hosting and for all the wonderful poets participating. My fragment today is called Time's Abstractions. Hope you enjoy.

@hool415 @blackboughpoems The everlasting fall. Loaded

Hullo @blackboughpoems @MatthewMCSmith and to glorious 18 word only #fragmentsfriday #poetry

@PoetryForce @blackboughpoems That tongue - terrifying

#fragmentsfriday @blackboughpoems. Many thanks to our host @MatthewMCSmith.

@RegineEbner @blackboughpoems ‘whim of dawns’

Happily joining another #fragmentsfriday with @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems. Here is Maps. Looking forward to yours. 🐚

@helen_laycock Early childhood trauma strongly symbolised

I have three versions of this #micropoem for #fragmentsfriday. The penultimate word is different in each… Thank you to @MatthewMCSmith for hosting this #micropoetry bonanza. ❤️ #poetry #poetrychallenge

@heavycloudhaze @blackboughpoems The self divided and redundant

This week’s #fragmentsfriday. Thank you @blackboughpoems and @MatthewMCSmith for hosting 🙏

@gphydeauthor @blackboughpoems Intriguing, morbid imagery

For #fragmentsfriday from @blackboughpoems – thanks to EIC @MatthewMCSmith #vsspoem #poet #poetrycommunity