Martin Kennedy Yates
@ArcCreativeArts
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Winner of The Broken Spine Chapbook Comp 2024. Poems in Rialto, Stand, Magma, Poetry Wales, Finished Creatures, Butcher's Dog, The Storms, Anthropocene & more.
Black Country, West Midlands.
Joined June 2013
This is a big moment in my poetic life! .I am mightily chuffed & genuinely surprised to win this. My fellow shortlistees are all great and successful poets, so it's even more of a privilege to have won and have my first chapbook on the way. 🤓.Watch out for more info to come 1/2.
✨ Big news! ✨.Congratulations to Martin Kennedy Yates (@ArcCreativeArts), winner of our 2024 Poetry Chapbook Competition with The Wilderness and Other Concerns. #PoetryChapbookCompetition #PoetryCommunity #TheWildernessAndOtherConcerns
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Hey, thanks for the support as always @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems .It's an honour to be listed with these lovely, talented, creative people 😍.Yes, do give us a follow - I'm Martin Kennedy Yates - I have my debut poetry pamphlet coming out with The Broken Spine in Sept.😎.
Happy Friday. Follow these creatives!. #followfriday .@PaulWritesPoems @PaulDragonwolf1 @BeeRummie @ArcCreativeArts @Arched_Roadway @Memashma @Glenn_A_Barker @eliot_north @raybould_drs @_WendyCaitlin @jahshabby @DavidHanlon13 @DRnaturegirl @Grizonne @Emma_Lee1 @SJFrideswide ☀️
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Don't worry, Sandra, and other #poetrylovers, come September-time, I'll be letting you know when "This Wilderness & Other Concerns" is out and available for you to get your hands on!😊.
@ArcCreativeArts @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems @vocebooks @RMFrancis @GregMLeadbetter @vic_spires @marcellenewbold @hool415 @writingwestmids @bctype Gosh Martin, this is stuffed with images! The river, so much stuff, the leather jacket, lies and leftovers, subtext of lives. I love the factories’ clatter. I’d love to read the whole poem. Thanks for sharing Martin👏.
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Mornin' all on @TopTweetTuesday & esp @sandrajnoel for hosting today. Thought I'd share a snippet from my 5-part, Eliot-inspired poem, "This Wilderness," which will be out with TheBrokenSpine in Sept. Enjoy! 😎.Thanks as always @MatthewMCSmith.#poetrylovers #poetrycommunity
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Rise, ye Poets! Give these judges something to chew on! Make their decision as hard as possible.
The 2025 National Poetry Competition is now open for entries!. This year's judges are Denise Saul, Ian Duhig and Susannah Dickey - find out more about them on our website. The National Poetry Competition offers to winners a first prize of £5,000, a second prize of £3,000, a .
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Morning all on @TopTweetTuesday 😎.Thank you @soopoftheday for hosting us. Here's my 42-word offering on #silence - with a visual form inspired by #BarbaraHepworth and a #Hamlet quote thrown in!.Please open the image for a full-view of the poem. Enjoy!.#poetrycommunity #poetry
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Hi @marcellenewbold - I didn't tag you properly in this earlier - forgot to leave a space after your name! So, you probably haven't seen it. Hope your hosting went well today - haven't had chance to look at others' poems yet. Just about to make a start at 23:43 😬.
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Good evening #poetrycommunity .Thank you to @marcellenewboldfor for hosting @TopTweetTuesday today. I've just found a little window in my day/evening to pull this together. It's actually the longer draft which I was working on for last week's poem. Hope it's not cheating 🫣
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Well, it's taken me all week but here's my response to the #PromptCombo challenge #Hidden - over on the blue place - a visual poem (of course) inspired by the things I found hidden in the earth - see previous post - read out loud to the steady rhythm of digging on a hot day 😎
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Hello #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers .This week on #PromptCombo over on the blue place the challenge from @vic_spires was #Hidden - so as I was doing a lot of digging out there in the heat I collected a few bits and bobs in the hope that they'd inspire a poem. 😎
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RT @bornonadarkmoon: thank you to Martin for sharing his poetry and a rather wonderful interview @ArcCreativeArts.
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If you like poems and thinking about poetic practice, wing your way over the this super substack and give my interview a read - plus 3 of my visual poems for free! 🤗.It only went up today and I've had some lovely feedback already. 🥰
This week, Martin Kennedy Yates @arccreativearts shares his creative process, his journey as a poet and a few of his evocative poems and upcoming projects. thewingedmoon.substack
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I'm so happy to have a wee poem in The Wee Sparrow . Thank you, Marcelle and Bronwen, for choosing my little 'Star-ling' thing to spread its wings in the world. Can't wait to see it and everyone else's super poems in there, too. 💚.
Exciting news from the anthology I am co-editing with Bronwen Evans, for The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press, (over on insta) . We are in the final stages now. 🪶🐌🌱 . #poetrycommunity #poetry
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Good morning #poetry lovers. Thank you @MatthewMCSmith for all you do for so many poets and for being the host with the most 🙌 Here's my 'Monumental' micropoem for @TopTweetTuesday - Hope this 14-word imagist offering hits the spot 😎
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Hi there #poetrycommunity .I was on @BrumRadio 's poetry feature at the weekend. It's on Mixcloud now as a podcast - there's just a couple of ads at the start, then it's a pretty chilled chat with host, Rick Sanders - and a few of my poems along the way:
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Morning #poetrylovers #poetrycommunity .I'm on Brum Radio this morning with the lovely Rick Sanders - so If you fancy some chilled chat & a few poems about pylons, birds & things, tune in at 10. There's 2 mins of ads at the start, but no more after that.
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Such a beautiful journal with lovely, high production values. and always fantastic work of course. If you write poetry or prose - or make art - and want to see it published in a great place, you probably should consider submitting 😎.
Submissions are open to our journal of poetry, prose and visuals art ⚡️. Find out about The Storms in the latest blog post .
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Ahoy there, shipmates! Yes, a motley crew of 10 poets set sail at 7pm this Saturday with @LouisePoetical at the helm. It's a free ride, so come and clamber aboard. Hold on tight for an adventure on the high seas of poetry. ☠️🌊.
O! What a corking creative crew to be a part of for National Creativity Day on Last Saturday 31 May at 7.00pm - free and online here: Join us!
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Come along on Saturday evening to hear a line-up of great poets. plus me!!! 😎.What a joy to be reading with such amazing poets (and people). It's this Saturday at 7pm. It's free, so just book in. NOW:
Come and listen to @JulesJumping @MarkAntonyOwen @ninaparmenter @ArcCreativeArts @PoetSarahDoyle @Bonniedreamer S Reeson, Beth Brooke and Corinna Board - free and online Saturday 31 May at 7.00pm. It'll be a wow!
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