Lou Mach
@LouLouMach
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Mancunian poet and educator, UoM graduate. The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024), I Am Not Light, Black Bough Poetry, (2025)
Manchester
Joined April 2013
From my upcoming collection, I Am Not Light, with @blackboughpoems here is the video for ‘Grief Therapist’. “Put hemlock in the teapot…” Disclaimer for sensitive content - connotations of self-harm.
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Delighted to have work published in @blackboughpoems Christmas & Winter Anthology. It would make a brilliant Christmas present ❤️
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You dont have to vote for us. But we'd love it if you did. @AuthorJmcm Kerry Byrne @LouLouMach @dragontripper @PaulWritesPoems
Jennifer has written a short substack post for the mag actually about how much we love you. Take a look, see what it is all about. https://t.co/E6lxR644xY Vote for us here. If the mood takes you! Vote for someone else if you want. But, vote. https://t.co/93nBUyZhmd
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‘there is no daylight without erasure’ Get Louise Machen’s gripping, emotional collection ‘I Am Not Light’ https://t.co/hhYVJqKPMV
@LouLouMach
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Excited to have a poem included in this anthology from The Morning Star! Get your preorders in 👇 https://t.co/3PiaqnwAUy
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Friends! Get your subs in for this - just over a week to go and I’d love more poems to read! 🧡
My litmag Frazzled Lit is open for submissions till 31st Ocober. Loving what is coming in so far! But we'd especially love to see more #poetry from the #poetrycommunity! @LouLouMach @PaulWritesPoems Reshares appreciated! @frazzledlitmag
https://t.co/R9enhaq7DE
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Our readers and EICs are really loving the work you are sending to us for this issue. It's going to be banging. Keep the words coming till 31st October! @LouLouMach
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@lozzawriting Check us out! https://t.co/j2ZTIxxKWv
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When you edited a book and enjoy it even more - months later. ❤️🔥 @LouLouMach’s book ‘I Am Not Light’ is so dark and intense. Hits you, wave after wave. https://t.co/WscLBXnaKl
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For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our fantastic host @MatthewMCSmith here is my take on a postmodernist piece about the act of creating a poem - The Poet as a Gardener
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For this week’s @TopTweetTuesday and our magnificent host @SaraswatiNagpal I thought it would be fitting to post the poem I read at her wonderful book launch on Sunday, The Abbess. If you haven’t already got hold of Saraswati’s collection, Drench Me in Silver, you should! 💜
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“The hummingbird in my chest/followed us to our red-brick terraced house.” -@LouLouMach, I AM NOT LIGHT Such a gorgeous poem filled with birth, beginnings, and changes time brings.
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Raining stars, and silver this Sunday Oct 5th - blessed to celebrate my poetry and their poetry with these superb poets. Sign up to join us at: https://t.co/jpXtdBq6pR with @blackboughpoems
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Very excited to be a part of this! ❤️
Delighted to announce our new poetry readers for issue 4. What a superb crew! Lou Mach @LouLouMach Val Harris @dragontripper And Paul Short @PaulWritesPoems Find their bios on: https://t.co/PUHaKx8v7H
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I’m so lucky to have talented poets from across the world reading at my online launch!!! Oct 5th, this Sunday, 3pm UK/ 7:30pm IST. Join us! Book your (free) ticket here: https://t.co/jpXtdBqEfp
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Absolutely loved spending my weekend with I am Not Light by @LouLouMach. This collection is vivid, raw, and full of blistering seascapes that made my landlocked heart sing! Grab your copy from @blackboughpoems 🖤
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Such a brilliant afternoon reading for @PoetsandPlayers at @anthonyburgess foundation alongside @DerynRJ and Sasha Dugdale ❤️
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Arresting readings of poetry from @LouLouMach @blackboughpoems, @DerynRJ @SerenBooks & Sasha Dugdale @carcanet for @PoetsandPlayers @anthonyburgess this afternoon, with graceful classical repertoire from @LiLucello & Lulu Yang. Thanks to all guests and to those in attendance.
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Join us tomorrow at @anthonyburgess to hear poets Sasha Dugdale, Deryn Rees-Jones, Louise Machen and musicians Li Lu and Lulu Yang. Free event all welcome. @LouLouMach @lilucello @SerenBooks @blackboughpoems
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