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....

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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