Lou Mach

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)

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

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.

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

Happy book anniversary for 'I Am Not Light' to Manchester poet, Louise Machen @LouLouMach.

Louise will continue to perform over the summer in the North. A true wordsmith and #spokenword maverick!

https://t.co/vwXNEoL3ZT

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

A small poem in honour of my collection’s first anniversary ❤️

@blackboughpoems

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

@WriterJenIf @blackboughpoems Thank you 🙏

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

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.

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

🔥 🔥 🔥 RELEASED 🔥 🔥 🔥

‘Shored Fragments: Poems in Response to Eliot’s The Waste Land.’

Edited by @MatthewMCSmith & Kitty Donnelly with over 50 writers and art by Fran Williams. Earlybird price for one week.

https://t.co/31FqON8UkN

#eliot #wasteland @TSEliotSocUK

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

My beautiful daughter painted by my wonderful future husband - best birthday gift ever ❤️

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

Longing, emotional undertow and escape.

Louise Machen's 'I Am Not Light', available with Black Bough poetry.

https://t.co/19OJgznFED

#writing #books #poetry @LouLouMach

[Daniel Hinds @DanielGHinds]

Good to see @kent_nj's review of @LouLouMach's collection I Am Not Light from the brilliant @blackboughpoems in the issue too!

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

@DanielGHinds @brokensleep @kent_nj @sanjeevpoems3 Great review! 🙌

[Nigel Kent @kent_nj]

Find out what I thought of 'I Am Not Light' by the talent that is @LouLouMach (AKA Louise Machen). My review is on my website now! Check it out. #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers https://t.co/k3bJjnSaP8

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

So thankful to @kent_nj for this brilliant review of my collection!

Follow the link below to have a read an check out links to buy @blackboughpoems ❤️

[Nigel Kent @kent_nj]

On my website tomorrow @louloumach (AKA Louise Machen) drops in to reflect upon a poem from her emotionally charged collection 'I Am Not Light' (Black Bough Press). A genuinely insight into an accomplished poet's work. Don't miss it. https://t.co/FeLaFWXFSx

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

‘One of the most exciting contemporary poets I have read’ @_WendyCaitlin on @LouLouMach’s ‘I Am Not Light’ ❤️‍🔥

https://t.co/ofrVgeQ2TW

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

@ITattum Thank you so much, Ian 🙏

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

So pleased to have this narrative poem in Atrium Poetry!

Click the link and have a read ❤️

[Atrium Poetry @AtriumPoetry]

Communion Wafer - Louise Machen @LouLouMach

https://t.co/BhLG9to3fD

[Atrium Poetry @AtriumPoetry]

Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Communion Wafer by @LouLouMach

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

A fantastic afternoon at 1853 Studios for Oldham Writers’ Festival with Cultureword ❤️

[Lou Mach @LouLouMach]

@iglawton @blackboughpoems Thank you so much! 🙌

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

#FollowFriday 🖊️ 💎

@PaulDragonwolf1 @jahshabby @RegineEbner @Rhona_Greene @PaulWritesPoems @helen_laycock @JulianD86666247 @ITattum @SaraswatiNagpal @LouLouMach @bardmus @jakkybeefive

[Atrium Poetry @AtriumPoetry]

Hello!

You might be interested to hear that we will be opening a one week submission window on Monday.

Full details of how to send us your poems will magically appear on the site then.

[Black Bough Poetry / Barddoniaeth Y Gangen Ddu @blackboughpoems]

‘I reach for her
and my fingers turn to ribbons,
their doubt-cut dovetails
mauling silent air.’

@LouLouMach Louise Machen from ‘I Am Not Light’

Book available at

https://t.co/cIuVap94lR