Cardiff poet. Debut chapbook Spectrum of Flight available for purchase @PressAnimal. Co-poetry editor @brokenspinearts #blacklivesmatter🖤

Cardiff, Wales
Joined March 2016
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Great honour to have two poems in the marvellous Poetry Lightbouse: Missing Mona Lisa’s Smile When We Heard The News Huge thanks to the Editor Erwin and the whole team thepoetrylighthouse.com/poem… #poetrylighthouse
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Joint 2nd 🥈 #fragmentsfriday @paulwritespoems 🌙 as chosen by @helen_laycock our guest judge
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Joint 1st 🥇 #fragmentsfriday @earthbrowne as chosen by @helen_laycock our guest judge 🏆 🔥
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Hullo #poetry #clocks #whimsy Just some nonsense cobbled from a strange dream last night…
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OVER THE MOON that The Oxford Scientist is publishing my quantum physics poem 'The Theory of Inevitable Uncertainty' and its accompanying text 'Aequilibrium of the Catastrocene' in their print issue! 💙 @UniofOxford oxsci.org/
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So thrilled for this piece to appear today with @Spill_Words! An eerie lead up to Halloween! There are so many other great stories and poems to read there as well! Witch Hazel Boughs spillwords.com/witch-hazel-b…
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Joint 3rd 🥉 #fragmentsfriday @dandugwriter 🧛‍♀️ as chosen by @helen_laycock our guest judge
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I want to give a SPECIAL MENTION to @MatthewMCSmith who has contributed so many wonderful poems since he initiated #fragmentsfriday but as host has never given himself a placing. So here is a top tier spot for your brilliant #poetry, with huge thanks, too, for all you do for us.
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Delighted to have a poem in the wonderful @AftershockPoets Huge thanks to the editor and publisher @maxrobertwallis for his outstanding hard work and talents aftershockreview.com/product… #aftershockreview
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Joint 1st 🥇 #fragmentsfriday Ashley Linkletter as chosen by @helen_laycock our guest judge 🏆
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Another fragment of autumn for this week’s #fragmentsfriday. Thanks to @matthewmcsmith and @blackboughpoems and this week’s special guest host, @helen_laycock ! Have a great day everyone!
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We continue our journey through #Biophilia today with a captivating poem from Roy Duncan. Read it here: anteroompoetry.com/biophilia… #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #EcoPoetry
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What is poetry? #poetry #poetrycommunity
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Excited to share that I've got two poems given a home by the good people at Sunlight Press. I'm grateful to the editors for finding my poems worthy of publication. I was also opportuned to meet a friend at her department's studio as she and her colleagues set up for their art
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Best album trilogy ever! #LauraNyro 🩷
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For @TopTweetTuesday a little offering on edges and journeys . With thanks to @MatthewMCSmith and @blackboughpoems
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For @Toptweettuesday and its remarkable host @MatthewMCSmith:
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Our judge for the top three this week on #fragmentsfriday Recipient of the 2026 Kathryn Bevis Memorial Prize, Helen Laycock’s poetry has also been nominated for the Pushcart Prize (x4) plus the Best of the Net (x4). She has two collections coming out in 2027. @helen_laycock
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