@LouLouMach

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
louisemachen.com
Joined April 2013
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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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would you like to attend four free poetry workshops? we’d love to invite you in October during our submission window. have a read here anteroompoetry.com/events
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We’d love to introduce all our new and incredible team but they w oh don’t allow so many images here. You can read all about us on the other platforms
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I’m really thrilled so many talented writers have joined me at @anteroompoetry. @LouLouMach Tom Nutting Elena Chamberlain Chris Campbell Shreya Thokola
Anteroom (formerly The Winged Moon)@anteroompoetryAug 19
We’d love to introduce all our new and incredible team but they w oh don’t allow so many images here. You can read all about us on the other platforms
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Alternative views of Manchester - there’s a poem in there 🧡
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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! tinyurl.com/bpab6xhj

Louise Machen's collection | Black Bough poetry

blackboughpoetry.com
Lou Mach@LouLouMachMay 30
A small poem in honour of my collection’s first anniversary ❤️ @blackboughpoems
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A small poem in honour of my collection’s first anniversary ❤️ @blackboughpoems
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🔥 🔥 🔥 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. blackboughpoetry.com/shored-… #eliot #wasteland @TSEliotSocUK
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My beautiful daughter painted by my wonderful future husband - best birthday gift ever ❤️
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Longing, emotional undertow and escape. Louise Machen's 'I Am Not Light', available with Black Bough poetry. shorturl.at/eI9aG #writing #books #poetry @LouLouMach
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Good to see @kent_nj's review of @LouLouMach's collection I Am Not Light from the brilliant @blackboughpoems in the issue too!
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Lou Mach retweeted
Nigel Kent@kent_njMar 21
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 nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/…

Review of ‘I Am Not Light’ by Louise Machen

Great imagist poetry is distinguished by its ability to immerse the reader fully in the immediacy of emotion. Amy Lowell’s sensual warmth, Richard Aldington’s taut emotional energy, and the decepti…

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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 ❤️
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Lou Mach retweeted
Nigel Kent@kent_njMar 13
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. nigelkent.poet.wordpress.com

a poet and words

the vpoetry and jaunts of some kid named staines.

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‘One of the most exciting contemporary poets I have read’ @_WendyCaitlin on @LouLouMach’s ‘I Am Not Light’ ❤️‍🔥 shorturl.at/xeInp
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Thank you for reading and sharing today's poem - Communion Wafer by @LouLouMach
Atrium Poetry@AtriumPoetryFeb 27
Communion Wafer - Louise Machen @LouLouMach atriumpoetry.com/2026/02/27/…
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So pleased to have this narrative poem in Atrium Poetry! Click the link and have a read ❤️
Atrium Poetry@AtriumPoetryFeb 27
Communion Wafer - Louise Machen @LouLouMach atriumpoetry.com/2026/02/27/…
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A fantastic afternoon at 1853 Studios for Oldham Writers’ Festival with Cultureword ❤️
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#FollowFriday 🖊️ 💎 @PaulDragonwolf1 @jahshabby @RegineEbner @Rhona_Greene @PaulWritesPoems @helen_laycock @JulianD86666247 @ITattum @SaraswatiNagpal @LouLouMach @bardmus @jakkybeefive
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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.
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‘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 shorturl.at/PClgk
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