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📣 New poems published as a feature with a poet I respect very much. Thank you Tim Fellows: figtreepoetry.substack.com for your shiny platform #TheFigTree. Read ‘One Child’, ‘Pallas Athene’ & ‘The Priest’, inspired by R.S. Thomas. Check out brilliant poets too! figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tree…

Still lying. It's like when you tuen an oven off but the fan keeps going.

"Returning from self-made trails, I found this place had no name, not even in the old language that I fought so hard to learn." Beautiful introspective landscapes & spiritual visions in these poems by Matthew M C Smith at #TheFigTree hosted by Tim Fellows: figtreepoetry.substack.com. #WritingCommunity

My poem for the Euros. Hope it doesn't end like this on Sunday. Written for the Paul Brookes format challenge

Extract from ‘The Priest’ a poem attempting to inhabit the psyche of Welsh poet R.S. Thomas. Full poem and feature on ‘The Fig Tree’, curated by Tim Fellows: figtreepoetry.substack.com figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tree…

timfellowspoetry.substack.com/p/wilfred-owen… A blog about the war poets Wilfred Owen and Keith Douglas.

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Time to leave Twitter for my own sanity. I will miss Michael Rosen 💙💙🎓🎓 NICE 爷爷 (((Dan Hodges))) Supertanskiii Armando Iannucci among others, also the live sports scores. If my poetry friends can let people know about The Fig Tree when it comes out I'd be grateful. Thanks.

I decided to break my Twitter boycott and plug The Fig Tree Issue 4, out today. With featured poet @MatthewPaulPoet and ten other fine poems Sarah Wimbush Ian Duhig FRSL Ian McMillan Paul Brookes @BethBrooke8 Matthew M C Smith Rory Waterman - please share figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tree…

Delighted to be in today's Black Nore Review.

It's here! Issue 5 of The Fig Tree is available via your email if you subscribed, or at figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tree… Paul Brookes Matthew M C Smith @MatthewPaulPoet Sarah Wimbush Angela Arnold Ian Duhig FRSL Penny Blackburn Mick Jenkinson

I'm reading in Sheffield on Tuesday evening, in support of my new collection. Do come along! sheffield.ac.uk/centre-for-poe…

The Fig Tree Issue 6 is out today with poems by Hannah Stone, Ian Parks and Mick Jenkinson amongst others. Please share - Ian Duhig FRSL Sarah Wimbush Matthew M C Smith Matthew Stewart figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tree…

Submissions are open for issues 7 and 8 of The Fig Tree, and the Coal Mining special issue. Find submissions info on figtreepoetry.substack.com/submissions Issues 1 to 6 are all available to read. This will be my last post on X before I shut my account. Catch me over at Bluesky.

The Fig Tree Issue 7 is out now! Celebrating its first birthday with a tribute to the West Yorkshire poet, editor and publisher Bob Horne. figtreepoetry.substack.com/p/the-fig-tree…