Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇

Redhead writer. Proud member of @saintsenaraband and @mothsanctuary. Editor at @soglos. She/her. All views are my own.

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

@HitsEastMids @hitsradionews Derby Hippodrome fire this evening

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

@TopTweetTuesday @GGeorgiahilton @PoetsDirectory This poem hits like an asteroid. Floored. I love it.

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

@Rhona_Greene @blackboughpoems Thank you Rhona! High praise indeed from a poet I so admire 🖤

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

My poem from the stunning @blackboughpoems Christmas & Winter 2024 Anthology.

Get your physical copy here: https://t.co/0kLjpTLuUK

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

'Another ghost falls from the tree as it waits for its blessing, carried on a song'

Cheltenham writer @chloevwrites in Black Bough Christmas-Winter anthology. https://t.co/93arqlQRTY

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

@CarmellaPoetry @blackboughpoems Thank you Carmella! 🖤

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

❄️ TONIGHT ❄️

Join us online for the launch of @blackboughpoems Christmas & Winter Anthology Volume 5 ♥️

I’m over the moon to have a poem featured in the book 🌙 which I’ll be reading tonight as part of the open mic.

Get tickets here: https://t.co/kHtbXNQ4Mk

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

✨ It’s here! ✨

I’m over the moon to have a poem in this beautiful anthology 🌙 alongside breathtaking works from the likes of Matthew Hollis.

Edited by @ElCurwen and @MatthewMCSmith for @blackboughpoems – with artwork from @EmmaBissonnet – get it on Amazon now.

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

🔔It's here! The Christmas-winter edition featuring distinguished author Matthew Hollis and other leading poetry luminaries. Be moved and inspired this Christmas and winter with our imagist anthology! In paperback & hardback, with art by @EmmaBissonnet 🔔

https://t.co/JFy00GV9oN

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

Well @TopTweetTuesday I’m about to sign off from hosting duty. The quality and calibre of the work today has been startling in the most wonderful way!

Thank you to all who contributed, thank you @MatthewMCSmith for inviting me to host. I’m off to bed with a head full of poems!

[TopTweetTuesday @TopTweetTuesday]

Your challenge next week - hyper condensement. Take one of your own imagistic short poems and condense it to no more than 20 words. Make it startling, retain the spirit of the original. Show the before and after (two photos). Tag us in, as usual.

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

I’m so glad! Gorgeous work

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

Rather a reimagining than a condensing, these two feel like sisters. One, a letter to pore over, which takes its time to arrive and make its point, the other a telegram, filled with gorgeous urgency. 💛

[Vikki C. @VWC_Writes]

For @TopTweetTuesday and our lovely host @chloevwrites, here is a new poem "Reading You In April" - unabridged and condensed versions, side by side.

Such a wonderful challenge. Thank you Chloe. Wishing you a great day of hosting 💜

@blackboughpoems #WritingCommunity #poetry

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

You’re so welcome Anna

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

Like blood droplets on crisp white snow, your condensed poem makes such an impression. There is such emotion in these trees when whittled down to the barest branches. Wonderful @anna_chorlton ♥️

[Anna Chorlton @anna_chorlton]

A poetry condensing challenge from @TopTweetTuesday thank you @chloevwrites @MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems #poetry #poetrycommunity

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

High praise indeed Glenn! Thank you 🖤

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

Ooh this is a glorious condensing! As though the spring tide itself has washed over your original poem and stolen the words back to the deep with its retreat, leaving only traces clinging to the shoreline. Wonderful work @Glenn_A_Barker

[Rother Writes ✍📚 @Glenn_A_Barker]

Hello @TopTweetTuesday and our guest host this week @chloevwrites 😍
My troubled sand is shifted and remodelled for you.
Thank you for volunteering to helm today's condensed selection. 😊

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

@ElCurwen You’ve done a wonderful job, it’s so hard to cut down when there’s so much in the original to love!

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

Trimmed expertly as towering conifers, Lesley. The brevity is still as visually satisfying and rich with colours, though I do miss the seamed scars shaded blue from the original. 🌨️

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

I love this Anthony – the shortened version is particularly vivid, and I think really benefits from keeping that lunar image at the centre, glowing in the dark. Stellar work 🌙

[Anthony J.P @antJP01]

My offering for @TopTweetTuesday and @chloevwrites

The original version of ‘Man in the Moon’ and a micro version with a different air! 🌙 🌒 🌕

@MatthewMCSmith @blackboughpoems

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

This feels so expertly done Paul. A razor-sharp reduction which amplifies the beauty, grief, longing and loss of the original. Where the original is so sensory, stripping it back I think it gives it even more power in its brevity. I can almost feel the hands disconnecting.

[Paul Brookes @PaulDragonwolf1]

An incisive incision concision
for @TopTweetTuesday and today's host, have a great day, Chloe @chloevwrites -

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

This condensed poem is so lovely. How much meaning there is in such an everyday object, how the mug holds the very heart of the family – I think condensing this really boils it down to the very sweetest part. Lovely!

[diggingpoetryandpop @noelcowley]

A trickier-than-it-looks brief for @TopTweetTuesday from this week's host, @chloevwrites - to condense a poem written for a previous #TTT into 20 or fewer words and in doing so hopefully distill the spirit of the original. Before and after ⤵️

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

Fabulous reduction here Anish. I think the abridged version has such power, like a lightning flash, it illuminates this moment you’ve captured and its beautiful, fleeting nature – then like the rumbling storm, it moves on. Lush. ⛈️

[Dr Anish K Gupta @optionurol]

Good morning! Here's my original and my condensed version of "The Knocking Storm Within"

Enjoy your day @chloevwrites and thank you @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith

#poetrycommunity

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

Ooh Jai, the new life breathed into this is stunning. I love your use of spacing and line breaks in both pieces. The shorter is much more abstract, but I think the heart of it remains. I really love ‘blue happened’ as the opening line too! 💙

[Jai Michelle Louissen @jaimichellepoet]

Hello all at @TopTweetTuesday thank you to @chloevwrites for this fantastic challenge. I went for writing something totally new, using the essence of the poem and the words but finding something fresh inside it

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

I love your condensed version Robert, it’s so punchy and vivid. It feels very considered and curated, but still full of your unique voice. Wonderful work 💜

[RobertFredeKenter @frede_kenter]

Ty for this delightful challenge of carving, chopping, distilling & whittling a longer imagist work down to 40 proof, 20 word shot. My poem POP presented s/by/side with original for host @chloevwrites @TopTweetTuesday @MatthewMCSmith & the @blackboughpoems crew.

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

I love the humour and wit in this Margaret! The condensed version certainly has a sting in its tail, there’s so much sass in such a small package! 🐝

[Margaret Royall @RoyallMargaret]

For @TopTweetTuesday, @MatthewMCSmith and host with the most @chloevwrites I’m posting my original poem ( left) and the slimmed down version ( right) which I trust meets approval! Enjoy your day, everyone!

[Chloe Victorian Gothic 🦇 @chloevwrites]

The stripped back version of this has such heat and rhythm, that heartbeat is so present in every line. There’s such a sense of connection. It’s very different from the fuller version, but deftly done. ♥️

[Dean Rowlands @costan07]

Hello all hope you are good. Here is my extra small effort describing such a big room in my life for @TopTweetTuesday hope you enjoy @chloevwrites and thanks to @MatthewMCSmith as ever.