Matthew M C Smith
@matthewmcsmith
Poet. Writer. Reviewer. Swansea.
Do you fear for your children’s future employment? ‘My Daughter Prepares a Cake Mix’ #technology #AIfuture #employment #cooking #poem #poetry #daughters #futurescape #futures #fathers #ai
Want to get organised as a #poet and have greater focus? Sign up quickly for ‘Crafting Your Year in #Poetry’, an engaging three hr workshop on Zoom THIS evening. #writing #writingcommunity www.eventbrite.co.uk/manage/events/1990717461516/details
This may be one of the most enjoyable #SealeyChallenge #poetry publications I will post this summer - ‘Tiny Glories’ by Lauren Thomas @lauren-thomas.bsky.social - delivered today and a few poems are inspired by Louise Gluck so should be cracking. Love the wrapping too @greenbottlepress.bsky.social
Day 3 of the #SealeyChallenge to read and promote a #poetry book through August. I never used to post @blackboughpoetry.bsky.social books for this challenge, fearing it a little too self-serving. But what the hell? Here is wordsmith Matt Gilbert’s ‘Street Sailing’ #poets #sealeychallenge #books
Day 2 #SealeyChallenge - reading a #poetry book a day and boosting it. Out of body experience writing - if you like Eliot and Wendell Berry, you’ll be charmed by this work. Michael Laver’s ‘After Earth’ published by @utampapress.bsky.social #poet #poetry #amreading
Day 1 #SealeyChallenge - reading a #poetry book a day and boosting it. ‘fierce and brilliantly disruptive’ Check out my testimony of Lesley Curwen’s ‘Sticky with Miles’, published by Dreich. @elcurwen.bsky.social #poet #poetry #amreading #poemsaboutenvironment
I changed my mind on not doing #TheSealeyChallenge this year - need more of the lesser-known works boosted with the big guns, so a mixed approach from me for balance. Hope you enjoy! Matt x #poetry #sealeychallenge #poetrybooks #amreading
When your child grows up and flies free, how do you deal with the change? ❤️🔥 #parenting #fatherhood #fathers #mothers #teenagers #smallpoemsunday - thanks to host @tomsnarsky.bsky.social
God, you want this! 25 copies of Polly Oliver’s #book ready for signing NEXT Saturday 8th August at Harry’s Bar, Mumbles. Midday, frankly unmissable! @pollyoliverwales.bsky.social #books #writing #gower
‘My darling, the wind falls in like stones’ ‘And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats’ #AnneSexton #poemsaboutfamily #loss #poemsaboutdeath #poetry
When you go to #Disney #Florida you must take pictures of Disney, especially when you visit #GalaxysEdge and find your #StarWars home. @disneyparks.bsky.social #Hollywoodstudios
A #poem for Sunday and the weekly event that is #smallpoemsunday with @tomsnarsky.bsky.social #body #dawn #poetry #touch #nerves
Reading over the summer. At the moment Anne Sexton and Italo Calvino. Beer and a pool are the bonus.
New poem ‘Little Human Epic’ 🫧 #poetry #ego #writing #narcissism #poetsofbluesky #blueskypoets
Poetry knackered. A few weeks off TopTweetTuesday and #fragmentsfriday. Recharge needed!
For Twitter’s #TopTweetTuesday ‘Musecraft’ - on the theme of ‘elements’ #poetrylovers😍❤️❤️ #poetry #writing #poetryprompt
Let me take you to the Lliw Valley reservoir on a boiling hot day. A pad and pen on me. ‘Reservoir Pastoral’ #smallpoemsunday #poetry #poem #amwriting #instapoetry 💦 🌊 ☀️ 🪰 🐟 🐑 🦢 🐦
A new poem about being a townie, not a surfie. 🏄♂️ #smallpoemsunday #poet #poetry #writing #writingcommunity
Midsummer mini harvest. Anyone for wedges, chips, crisps, roasties and baked potatoes? Last pic a pumpkin.
Inspired by Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘God Knows’… #TopTweetTuesday #poetry #poem #writing #writingcommunity #muse
For #smallpoemsunday and platform guru @tomsnarsky.bsky.social 🌱 An inverted #poem #micropoem #loss #grief #poetry ❤️🔥
For #fragmentsfriday ‘Ageing Dad-Man Hits the #Dancefloor’ #poetry #poetrylovers #fathers #disco