Our Christmas and winter 2020/21 print edition is out and on Amazon to buy. See our webpage for more information.

Deep Time 2 was released in October 2020 and attained #no2 in the Amazon poetry anthology chart. Social media has been flooded with...

We had hundreds of submissions for the summer 'Freedom/ Rapture' edition and are working through them carefully. The new Guest Readers...

During August, we'll be completing Deep Time II, with a launch planned for September. This will also be a print publication and also free...

We're delighted to release 'Deep Time' volume 1, the anthology of poetry inspired by Robert Macfarlane's prize-winning book 'Underland'...

The final draft of Deep Time volume 1 is being finalised and will be available on Amazon in July 2020. We will have news soon on the...

Trailer time! Our first ever trailer for our first ever print edition is available on youtube. We're proud to show you the talents of...

You can read essential submission info on our summer edition in the 'submissions opportunities' section. We are only able to take work...

We have three guest readers lined up for the summer edition, which will be put a few weeks back because we are completing two print...

We've been working on the Deep Time editions, which will be our first print venture. The team are hard at work editing and formatting and...

Inspired by Robert Macfarlane's 'Underland' (Penguin Books), we invite submissions of poetry for the 'Deep Time' edition (submission...

So happy to have released the Christmas/ winter edition out there on 8/12/19. This was a lot of work for the team with hundreds of...

Congratulations to the following poets, who received the most nominations from readers for the Pushcart Poetry Prize 2020. Thanks to the...

December will see the publication of a bijou Christmas and winter festivals edition. We can't wait to reveal the edition. Guest Readers /...

November 2019 will see the launch of issue 4 of Black Bough. This edition may need a warning, It has sober content!

So happy to announce that Black Bough issue 3, 'yolk' is now live on the website. Edited by Matthew Smith, with Guest Readers Rae...

We had so many submissions in four days for Issue 3 that we have decided to split the accepted poems into Issues 3 and 4. Issue 3 will be...

Black Bough are looking for a small number of poems for a special Christmas/ winter festivals theme. Please read the submission info page...

Delighted to announce that the new mini issue of cosmic haiku is now online. Elizabeth Kemball and Matthew M.C. Smith co-edited this...

Issue 3 is being worked on after having hundreds of submissions through in September and having to close the submission window early....