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Matthew M C Smith

Nov 3, 2019
1 min

Issue 5 - Christmas and winter festivals

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

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Matthew M C Smith

Nov 3, 2019
1 min

Issue 4 - the dark edition

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

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Matthew M C Smith

Oct 18, 2019
1 min

Issue 3 - 'yolk' is live!

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

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Matthew M C Smith

Oct 7, 2019
1 min

Issues 3 and 4

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...

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Matthew M C Smith

Sep 26, 2019
1 min

Christmas/ winter festivals mini-issue

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

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Matthew M C Smith

Sep 20, 2019
1 min

'Magnificent Desolation': cosmic haiku mini issue

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

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Matthew M C Smith

Sep 20, 2019
1 min

ISSUE 3

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

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Matthew M C Smith

Aug 31, 2019
1 min

Guest readers - issue 3

It is a privilege to welcome Dr Rae Howells, Mark Antony Owen and Richard Waring as guest readers for issue 3. These poets were...

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Matthew M C Smith

Aug 31, 2019
1 min

Resurfacing

Delighted to announce Black Bough issue 3, submission window Saturday 7th Sept., to Sunday 15th Sept. Please read submission info and...

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Matthew M C Smith

Jul 12, 2019
1 min

Commencing countdown!

Black Bough Issue 2 is of galactic proportions. The publication is over 50 pages long and features 100 poets and over 170 micro-poems. We...

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Matthew M C Smith

Jul 2, 2019
1 min

Apollo 11

The Issue 2 submission period closed on June 22nd and since then, the editorial team have gone through hundreds of submissions. Our...

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Matthew M C Smith

Jun 5, 2019
1 min

Welcome Guest Readers

Issue 2 - 'space and cosmos' - needed extra input from experienced, talented people. An open-call was sent out. We are delighted to...

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Matthew M C Smith

May 2, 2019
1 min

Issue 2 - space and cosmos

Issue 2 is a special edition commemorating the Apollo 11 spacecraft moon landing in 1969. The theme for the next issue is space and...

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Matthew M C Smith

Apr 25, 2019
1 min

OUT NOW! First issue on the web.

Delighted to announce the launch of the first issue of Black Bough Broadside project. This is a free, digital-only publication featuring...

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Matthew M C Smith

Apr 22, 2019
1 min

Twitter

For regular updates on Black Bough, poetry and all things poetry, follow our Twitter page @BlackBoughpoems We share our own contributors'...

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Matthew M C Smith

Apr 17, 2019
1 min

Submissions - what we are looking for in a poem!

Submissions - what we are looking for in a poem! It is often difficult for writers to know what magazines and different publications...

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Matthew M C Smith

Apr 14, 2019
2 min

Black Bough - first issue

The excitement and micro-poem fever has been building on Twitter since April 2019. Within weeks, the new Twitter feed @BlackBoughpoems...

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