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Lou Mach

4 months

If you’d like a copy of a first-run edition of this fantastic little book signed by myself and @archaeologyBoy along with THREE exclusive limited edition postcards follow this link: or DM us on here 🍞

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Lou Mach

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7 months

So you’re that skint you have to sell your old stuff to buy new stuff and the HMRC wants to tax you on the sale of something you’ve already paid tax on that you will be selling for less than you paid? Surely taxing millionaires would be more profitable than Sharon’s used tops?

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7 months

Depop, Vinted and other apps to share more information with HMRC

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Lou Mach

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8 months

My mum passed away from cancer yesterday. I have nothing profound or poetic to say. I’m just really very sad. Prayers and spells and kind thoughts are very welcome.

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Lou Mach

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1 year

I’ve been making erasure poems this week from The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Here’s one of of my favourites 🤍

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Lou Mach

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4 months

Today is my birthday and it marks the start of a new and exciting year - looking ahead with happiness 💛

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Lou Mach

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2 years

I’ve just had FOUR poems accepted by a publication that I’m really excited about. So, yeah, go me 🙌🙌🙌

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

5 months

People will say perfection doesn’t exist - this morning’s sky respectfully disagrees 🧡

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

@alexjenkinspoet Maybe, but what about those on benefits? If they make a tenner would that be deducted? My worry is this could be used as a punitive measure for the poorest in society - wouldn’t put anything past this government.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

Here’s another erasure poem from ‘The Road’ It’s been a really enjoyable creative practice making these and I’ve got a small collection now (might back and frame a few) 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

Hope 💜

Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

My neighbour gave my back garden a “tidy” as he has been using it for storage. He has ripped all the budding flowers (“weeds”) from my wall - ones I write about every year. I know this came from a good place, but I’m sitting here in the sunshine planning a protracted revenge…

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Lou Mach

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7 months

I read this Anna Akhmatova poem at my mum’s funeral. Today, we bury her ashes and this will be going with her: We Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye. ‘That stick in your hand is tracing mansions / in which we will always be together.’ 🤍

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Lou Mach

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1 year

Rejections are always hard, especially when they all come at once, but some just hit a little harder than others. I’m going to resist the urge to throw my poems in the bin and wallow in waffles and bourbon (later on). Positivity will resume in due course.

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Lou Mach

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2 years

I submitted to a press in July for an anthology - one I was really excited about. Just had an email that they want to accept all three of my poems and, I tell you, I couldn’t be more chuffed - perfect end to the day 🙌🙌🙌

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Lou Mach

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2 years

In the car with my dad: Me: I’m getting interviewed Dad: Who by, the police? Me: No, about my poetry Dad: Well, you never know with you And that, my friends, is Tuesday.

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Lou Mach

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6 months

I’m absolutely over the moon to be published by @blackboughpoems - huge, massive thank you to @MatthewMCSmith and congratulations to everyone on this magnificent list 🧡

Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu

@blackboughpoems

6 months

🔥✒️The eight winners of our chapbook/ pamphlet/ collection #poetry contest 🍾🥂 @jamesmcconachi1 @LouLouMach @RegineEbner @ri_collins @VWC_Writes @helen_laycock @SaraswatiNagpal @Polly0liverr Thanks to everyone who entered and made it such a challenge to choose the winners.

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Lou Mach

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10 months

I’ve been called ‘tough’ and ‘resilient’ several times this week - words that have followed me my whole life. Some days, all I want is the opportunity to be soft and vulnerable - that’s why I write poetry.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

Particularly chuffed with today’s book post… I have four poems in the latest issue of @Dreich25197318 - massive thanks to Jack Caradoc for selecting them. Pebbles and Bricks is one of my favourites so I’m very happy to have placed it here 💛

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Lou Mach

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1 year

The moon stayed up to wish me happy birthday. I’ve watched the sunrise, made a wish and now I’m going to eat that giant fondant fancy for my birthday breakfast (because I can, because I’m an adult).

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

Here’s a thought, if you don’t like the submission requirements for a mag/journal/press, don’t submit there 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

11 months

Cover reveal! How brilliant is this?! Myself and @archaeologyBoy knew this photo embodied this collection in many ways - can’t wait for it to be out in the world! Massive thanks to Mark @hedgehogpoetry for recreating the vision so perfectly 🍞

Hedgehog Poetry

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11 months

@PJHarveyUK @archaeologyBoy @LouLouMach

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Lou Mach

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7 months

Not sure what to feel today - wasn’t expecting to celebrate Christmas without my mum. Think I’m going to sit in the old memories for a while. I remember this book, my mum took this photo - we’ve watched ‘The Snowman’ every Christmas since - today will be no exception.

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Lou Mach

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8 months

Portrait of Winter 🤍

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Lou Mach

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7 months

Reflections of a sunset 🧡

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Lou Mach

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4 months

So, Edinburgh might be my new favourite city 💙

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

8 months

Despite the frost and snow of the past week, there is a patch of little purple flowers on my wall that refuse to leave. They have been there months - long after the rest withered away at the end of the summer. Make of that what you will, there could be a poem in there 💜

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

I am over the moon with this Pushcart nomination (and in such brilliant company too!) ✨ Massive thank you to @arw_poetry at @eastridgereview for taking such care of my work 🧡

East Ridge Review

@eastridgereview

9 months

🎉 Congratulations to @dana_a_knott , Beth Mead, @LouLouMach , and @Joseph_Fasano_ for being nominated for the Pushcart Prize this year by East Ridge Review. 🏆 Thanks for trusting your poetry with ERR!

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

If nothing else, I’ll always have the magpies 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

I haven’t really got the words to describe how elated I am in WINNING @hedgehogpoetry ’s Conversationally Yours competition alongside the fabulous @archaeologyBoy We’re going to have a collection in print and it’s so, so good ❤️

Hedgehog Poetry

@hedgehogpoetry

1 year

“Conversationally Yours – Quatre” A Poetry Collaboration Competition – RESULTS

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

The journey was worth it for the sky alone 😍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

5 months

A March sky on fire like a heart in love 🧡

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 months

Perfect flowers in the perfect gift of a vase 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

Lucille Clifton for the 1st of January 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday on the theme of ‘love and it’s vicissitudes’ and our wonderful host @Pocket_rhyme here is my poem ‘I Think of Him in October’ originally published by @blackboughpoems in the Christmas - Winter Anthology, Volume 4.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

The backstreets of a rainy Manchester 💜

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and the wonderful @DeeringRachel here is my draft of a tired little poem - And then, we never spoke again 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

Challenge accepted for @TopTweetTuesday and our host @gphydeauthor - 5 lines, fewer than 40 words, theme of autumn and hopefully imagistic enough. Forever thankful to this wonderful community of poets, here is my offering for today: I Think of Him in October 🍁

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

There’s a reason poets love the moon 🌙

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

8 months

So proud to have a poem accepted for the forthcoming @SidhePress anthology: Women Walking in a Violent World. I can’t wait to read this body of work - thank you so much ❤️

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

5 months

I’m so proud to have a poem in here alongside an array of fantastic and important voices. Get yourself a copy today as all proceeds this month go to UNWRA making this book doubly special and necessary ❤️

SÍDHE PRESS is really Sídhe Press

@SidhePress

5 months

To Light The Trails- Poems By Women In A Violent World, is out today! We are so proud of this book and we are in awe of our brilliant and brave contributors. All proceeds this month go to UNRWA. Find out more here: #Poetry #Anthology #Women

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our fantastic host @MJDougherty33 here is my poem, People Disappear.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 years

Sharing one of my favourite poems by Paul Farley today - The Heron. He gets Icarus and Superkings into the same piece and makes it brilliant 💛

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

Ended up here ❤️

Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

Today’s advice - deal with problems and disappointments by taking an impromptu train journey to anywhere* *I never said it was good advice

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9 months

Despite what the photos suggest, I pinky-promise that I did absolutely nothing wrong, mischievous or criminal today…

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Lou Mach

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5 months

For #WorldBookDay I’ll give you the only organised bookcase in my house - wish I could spend the whole day curled up with a couple of these ❤️

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

For me, a dream publication is a press/journal/mag whose values align with mine, that publishes work I love and is ran by people who care. I am so chuffed to announce that today I have had a dream acceptance from @MagazineCape ! Massive thanks @ri_collins & Aaron 🧡

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

Sharing this poem again today as we near Christmas. There are a lot of smiley people about holding on to misery that has built over time because they find it easier to pretend they’re alright. It’s what we need friends for ❤️

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

Properly chuffed to have a poem in the Morning Star. If you like the government, it’s not for you. Massive thanks to Jack Caradoc for selecting this one 🙏

Dreich

@Dreich25197318

1 year

Louise Machen

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

A bit of reflection in the great outdoors. I have some wonderful people and places in my life - full of gratitude for both today 💚

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 years

Happy @TopTweetTuesday everyone. I’m completely chuffed to be host this week and sit in anticipation of all the glorious imagist poetry that’s about to come my way… As host, I thought it only right I share this new one: Take Me Out to Sea Bring on the poems 💛

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 month

Wall flowers in full bloom 💜

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

Despite the rain and frost, three purple wall flowers have made it into the new year - tired and wilted, but here all the same. Wishing everyone the beauty and resilience of these campanula for whatever lies ahead in 2024 - Happy New Year 💜

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

4 months

Not much blue, but lots of green - there’s a poem in there 💚

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

Had such a mint night reading at Switchblade (the book is a thematic prop) 💚

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday challenge and its architect, the fantastic @MatthewMCSmith here is my sub-80-word imagist take on ‘distance’ - If Wishes Were Horses.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 month

Full bloom peonies for a Friday 🩷

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

Sharing this poem for the last day of the year - NYE always serves a reminder of change, reflection and how quickly time passes. Published by @blackboughpoems - I Am Not Light ✨

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our fabulous host @SaraswatiNagpal here is my poem ‘Familial Obligation’ first published in @Dreich25197318 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday challenge and @KarloSevilla2 here is a 21 word poem - In Search of Myself. Enjoy the deluge of tiny poems, Karlo! 💛

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

10 months

I used to buy myself flowers once a week, religiously. Then, I just stopped. No reason. I think I might have fallen out with myself a bit. Today, I saw these beauties with the tiniest sunflower I’d ever seen right in the centre - it felt like a poem and the start of something 🌻

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

4 months

Blue skies and street art 💙

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

5 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our fantastic host @Glenn_A_Barker , here is a new poem written to the brief: Splinters.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

For Mothers’ Day, an erasure poem:

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Lou Mach

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7 months

Imposingly gothic Whitby Abbey 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

5 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our brilliant host @PaulDragonwolf1 here’s a grim little thing: Grief Therapist. I’ve hit the top end of the word count and hopefully fulfilled the brief! 🫖

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

Coffee and moonlight 🤍

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Lou Mach

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5 months

This week is for trying new things - very proud of the sushi and tempura I helped to make last night. There could be a poem in there 🧡

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

Looking forward to an afternoon with good souls and good food 🤍

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Lou Mach

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5 months

A blue-grey kind of Thursday 💙

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

10 months

The BEST way to celebrate National Poetry Day - chuffed to bits! Thank you so much @fullhouselit for the nomination - what a brilliant list to be on ❤️

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10 months

Announcing our Best of the Net 2023 nominations. 🎉 Poetry: @workingwords50 @mmgiovanelli @kcenlalucha @zensaidsummat @isjustdrake @LouLouMach Art: J’Atelier9 Nataliia Burmaka @MartinsDeep1 Prose: @sbdobbie

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

Tulips the colour of Friday ❤️

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

As it’s Poe’s birthday today, I’ll share this poem from one of the most beautifully gothic books I own. “And my hopes are dying While, on dreams relying, I am spelled by art.” The em-dash in the final line is just perfect 🖤

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 years

I’ve had the best morning reading at Manchester Art Gallery with the best people. Another beautiful event organised by @PoetsNorthern 💛 Here’s a clip of me reading my poem The Tenth Muse beside this awesome painting of Sappho 😍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

14-year-olds don’t know what a BT phone book is. “You mean there was a book that got delivered to everyone’s house with everyone else’s name, address and phone number in it? Sounds a bit dangerous that, Miss.” There’s an irony here.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 years

Received a poetry rejection this morning but it was so complimentary of my work it didn’t really feel like a rejection at all. So, I’m going to drink my coffee and send the poems somewhere else…

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

One of my favourite photos from Whitby - there’s a poem in there and it’s called ‘Textures’ 🧡

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

7 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday challenge and our fantastic host @RegineEbner here is my imagistic avian offering: Truth-Telling.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

1 year

Fixed it. #PledgeofAllegiance

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

8 months

Green is the colour for today 💚

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our wonderful host Yvonne @Alayanabeth here is a line (20 words!) from a current work in progress ‘El Corazon’ 🔥

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 months

Many layered peonies for a Friday - there’s a poem in there 🩷

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

2 years

A colleague came to find me this morning to tell me an ex-student had been trying to get in touch with me all summer. This student left in 2015. He needed her to tell me that he had now started reading the book I gave him - the first book he has ever read. He sent photo evidence:

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

4 months

So, so excited about this! Please sing it from the rooftops and pre-order a copy if you can - both @archaeologyBoy and I are extremely proud of what we have put together here 🍞 Many thanks to Mark @hedgehogpoetry for putting it out into the world 💛

Hedgehog Poetry

@hedgehogpoetry

4 months

A Hog Blogs: PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN “The WORDS OF OTHERS are all we have” – Louise Machen & J. Daniel West Well, finally - PRE-ORDERS ARE OPEN for this utter treasure from @LouLouMach and @archaeologyboy Don't miss out on this pocketful-of-genius

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

6 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and the brilliant @lozzawriting I’m sharing a little metaphorical poem that was published a while ago in Carmen et Error @TheBraag - 1989.

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

9 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our fantastic host @AlanParry83 here a little re-worked fiery poem from me: Pyrolysis 🔥

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

3 years

One of my erasure poems - I love doing this. Trip to the charity shop today I think. Get second hand books. Create poetry. Couldn’t think of a more perfect Saturday 💛

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Lou Mach

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1 year

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday challenge and the wonderful @folkheartpress here’s my 24 word imagist poem: Thirst. Enjoy your day of poems, Karen! ❤️

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

8 months

Beautiful book post today from @blackboughpoems ❤️ I’m so chuffed to have a poem in this anthology - I can’t wait to sit down and take some time to immerse myself in all the wonderful words and artwork - thanks again @MatthewMCSmith 🙏

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3 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our wonderful host and his pictures @aperrincycling Thank you for the prompt! Here’s ‘Vapours’ 🌊

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

3 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our host, the inimitable @MatthewMCSmith , here’s an arty draft from me - The Old Master 🤍

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

5 months

For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our brilliant host @ITattum here is a draft of a new poem: Cartographer

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Lou Mach

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7 months

Solstice Sunshine and delayed trains ✌️

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Lou Mach

@LouLouMach

3 months

Check out my wonderfully talented daughter - bursting with pride! ❤️ I can’t wait to watch this! Get your tickets!

HER Productions

@productions_her

3 months

"...of all the men alive, I never yet beheld that special face.." Welcome back one and all! We are humbled to present - the apple of our (and your) eye. The one and only @HopeYolanda1 , our “MOLLIE”, the Mender 🧵 Tickets: 1/2