Ink Sweat & Tears @inksweatandtears.co.uk Online poetry magazine posting daily. We publish & review poetry, prose, filmpoems, word & image and print publish as IS&T Press. Editing internships. Posts by Sabine Wilson-Patrick & Kate Birch.
Neil Laurenson @neillaurenson.bsky.social Writer; Green councillor; Autism YouTuber (Autistic Not Alien)
Heather Paterson @heatherpaterson.co.uk Head of Partnerships and Development @consortium.lgbt | Chair @proudchangemakers.bsky.social | LGBTQ+ Columnist Exposed Magazine
Proud queer 🏳️🌈 Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Intersectional feminist ✊ Anti-fascist #LGBWithTheT
www.heatherpaterson.co.uk
Midlands Fringe @midlandsfringe.bsky.social Midlands Fringe AYIT!
📍 Wolverhampton
🗓️ 17-26 July 2026
💡 Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists
💷 Arts Council England
🌐 https://linktr.ee/midlandsfringe
Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social Believe in yourself! Work hard, never give up & anything's possible! OR: Kick back, relax & aim low: You'll never be disappointed...😜
Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Mayor of New York City
Writing for Wellbeing @writeforwellbeing.bsky.social Write your way to a more positive outlook on life! Guided writing activities to foster personal growth, increased mindfulness, and emotional wellbeing. Online anywhere, and in-person in North East England. writingforwellbeing.co.uk
Sue Watling @suewatling.bsky.social poet with pagan heart, allotmenteer, beekeeper, author of 'Heaving with the dreams of strangers' & 'Thetis' https://suewatling.com/thetis-a-poetic-narrative-now-available-online/ Also #walkthroughthetarot
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Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
Joseph Blythe @wooperark.bsky.social ✒️Writer of prose and poetry.
📚Published in Stand, Grist, Pennine Platform, Allegro Poetry, et al. PhD student.
💻Website ⬇️
https://linktr.ee/josephblythewriter
Philip Gross @vaikuspg.bsky.social Writer of many parts, but the heartland is poetry – head to https:/www.philipgross.co.uk to see the range of 40 years of writing life.
Roshni Gallagher @roshnigallagher.bsky.social Poet from Leeds based in Edinburgh (she/her)
Even the Trees (Bloodaxe, 2026)
Bird Cherry (Verve, 2023)
https://roshnigallagher.com/
Terry Sherwood @calledterry.bsky.social poet published in Acumen, Allegro, Blithe Spirit, Dream Catcher, Dreich, Green Ink, Orbis, Pennine Platform, Reach, Cannon's Mouth, Seventh Quarry.
terrysherwood.substack.com
Liffy Elisabeth kelly @liffyeliskelly.bsky.social Poet - Scottish poetry library bursary ward 2025 chapbooks include carbon, mind mathematics, wild chamomile and soon to be released becoming a witch she/her
Debmalya Bandyopadhyay @halfmoonmocha.bsky.social Writes poems watches squirrels does maths
https://sites.google.com/view/debmalyab/writing?fbclid=PAY2xjawGjTTxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABprf1Lu8oEeMBTqDck7E_juvwaPMJhsAEBF1bGzVFv7KEOc-TxtkVdVr0Vw_aem_CNGpQ_ZGOuSMIK5DEgmMgQ
Frances Roberts Reilly @francespoesis.bsky.social 🇨🇦 Roma, Poet, Author, Podcaster, Playwright, Filmmaker, Storyteller, Documentarian, Harpist, Welsh Gypsy, Nan.
Author of Parramisha: A Romani Poetry Collection & Akekoi: A Romani Memoir
Poetry Wales & Firebird Awards.
Producer, Watershed Writers Podcast.
Stephanie Bowgett @silverbowsteph.bsky.social Retired, school governor. Poetry, writing, readings and workshops. Ex Labour
Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
George Ttoouli @georgettoouli.co.uk Poet, gardener, teacher, editor, recovering academic. #Goodgym Barnet. Candidate, Barnet Green Party, Woodhouse ward.
www.georgettoouli.co.uk
Promoted by Joan Waterson on behalf of George Ttoouli (Barnet Green Party) both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ
Julian Stannard @julianstannardpoet.bsky.social I’m the author of nine collections of poetry ; the most recent Please Don’t Bomb the Ghost of My Brother ( Salt , 2023 ) ; a novel
- The University of Bliss is published by Sagging Meniscus Press (2024 ) In 2024 I was awarded the Lerici Shelley Prize
Maithreyi Karnoor @maithreyikarnoor.bsky.social Makes up stuff.
Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
Msiagirl @msiagirl.bsky.social Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
Jayant Kashyap @jaydkash.bsky.social Buy NOTES ON BURIALS: http://bit.ly/3EBKSXb • Toto Awards 2025 • New Poets Prize 2024 • Young Poets Prize WellsLitFest ’21 • Pamphlets (’19, ’20, ’25) • Zine (’21) • 2x Pushcart Nom. • 2x BotN Nom. • 2x Dan Veach Prize Honourable Mention
Dale Booton @dalebooton.bsky.social Teacher. Poet. Queer. 🏳️🌈
www.dalebooton.com
Kostya Tsolakis @kostyatsolakis.bsky.social Poet | 📖 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 (Nine Arches Press), PBS Recommendation, shortlisted for the Polari First Book Prize ‘24 & Runciman Award ‘24 | Editor 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺
@susannahjhart.bsky.social @susannahjhart.bsky.social 
Sana Goyal @sanagoyalkotecha.bsky.social Deputy & Reviews Editor, Wasafiri magazine
PhD in literary prizes
Freelance book critic 
Sue Rose @suerrose.bsky.social Poet and translator, pickleball and tennis enthusiast
Linda Collins @lindacollins.bsky.social
Poetry, essays, memoir, fiction, reviews, journalism. Loss Adjustment, Sign Language for the Death of Reason. SL Bridport, Joy Harjo; runner-up Mslexia. MAs from UEA, IIML. NZ, UK, Asia, US publications. Introvert.
Amanda Holiday @amandaholiday.bsky.social 
Graham Clifford @gclifford1.bsky.social Poet. Appearing in anthologies including Faber, Broken Sleep and Against the Grain. Published by Seren, BLER and Against the Grain. Recent work up at BerlinLit, the Manchester Review and Finished Creatures. https://share.google/24BDXUZwrWpPLfE7O
@melpryorpoetry.bsky.social @melpryorpoetry.bsky.social Poet, writer, Best British Short Stories, Poetry Review etc
clare e. potter @clare-e-potter.bsky.social Poet (Healing the Pack, Verve Poetry Press 2024) Winner of RSL Jerwood Poetry Award for Wales 2024
BBC Radio Poetry Progs, Translation, Collaboration, Creative Facilitation, Cymres, Chapbook: Nôl Iaith (Cyhoeddiadau'r Stamp 2025)
ireneintheworld @ireneintheworld.bsky.social Irene Cunningham. Possible novelist if poetry didn't keep on the kidnapping thing. Poems in many mags and anthologies, a couple of chapbooks Hedgehog Press and Dreich, a few created on Amazon.
Shaun Belcher @trailerstar.bsky.social Writer / Songwriter / Artist and Gooner.
Syreeta @phantomsspleen.bsky.social head chog
she/her
brain pipes: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:axgsibufsipx4vtctg3xdefz/feed/aaaeb4v2jnfxy
fails (better): https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:axgsibufsipx4vtctg3xdefz/feed/aaaecg2eemgu4
Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social Poet-PhD-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
K. Blair @kblair.bsky.social They/She | Writer | The Death of the Cult Classic, out now from kith books | https://www.kblair.co.uk/ | pfp: Ray Roberts
Rebecca Cooney @rebeccakcooney.bsky.social TV journo - insights editor at Broadcast magazine. Also poet, feminist, bookworm & charity shop fiend. She/her.
Debut pamphlet Where the Lights Come On out now. https://rebeccakcooney.bigcartel.com/product/where-the-lights-come-on
Rose @rosebonecrone.bsky.social Shouty performance poet, forensic/physical anthropologist, small press publisher, currently floating between UK & Amerikkka. I can't believe we still have to protest this shit! Ally. She/her. The revolution will be televised til the power stations burn
Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social Investigative journalist. Ex-Guardian/Observer. Now co-founder brand new all-women journalist collective, www.thenerve.news. Tech justice stuff: www.the-citizens.com. Personal newsletter: www.broligarchy.substack.com
Mark Coverdale @cov-art.bsky.social Art School Mod Poet / Founder of Tonic Sta Press / Drums & Vocals with Three Clicks Left
artschoolmodpoet.com
Matt L T Smith @mattltsmith.bsky.social Barbican Young Poets alum | words in @BathMagg | in Swapping the Present for a Future @VervePoetryPres | in Articulations for Keeping the Light In @flippedeye | Living with MS🎗
Elspeth Wilson @elspethwrites.bsky.social Writer, poet and guinea pig fosterer. These Mortal Bodies, my debut about sisterhood, girlhood and obsession, is out now with Simon and Schuster 🦇.
https://linktr.ee/elspethwrites
Marc Chamberlain @marcchamberlain.bsky.social Poet | Critic | Queer |
www.marcchamberlain.net
Cherry Doyle @cmdoet.bsky.social Poetry ✒️ Nature 🍄 Cannock Chase 🌳
'September' & 'The Taste of Rain' from Offa's Press 🍂 🌧️
Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social Curmudgeon, poet, writer, ex stand-up comic, European, playwright, woke lefty Grauniad reader, Irish trad mandolin player and blues harp playing anarchist and agnostic. Also happen to be a recovering Catholic. Website www.mikeharding.co.uk
A.D. Harper @adharper.bsky.social Poetry. // Prose.
Words in RHINO, The Manchester Review, The Shore, Bending Genres, Dream Pop, Cordite, and others.
adharper.com
Oliver Fox @oliverfox.bsky.social Poems, mostly. Buy my pamphlet, Haptics, via Broken Sleep Books
Tim Turnbull @timturnbull.bsky.social Poet, artist, malcontent
Josephine Balmer @jobalmer.bsky.social Poet, translator, research scholar, spaniel wrangler. Motoring on Cotes de Provence rose
www.thepathsofsurvival.co.uk
Peter McDonald @pmcdthisandthat.bsky.social Poet, translator, critic, editor.
Anthony Etherin @anthonyetherin.bsky.social Poet, wordplayer, musician, editor, bassist, guitarist, backgrounds in physics & publishing
KNIT INK (AND OTHER POEMS): https://store.deepvellum.org/products/knitink
AnthonyEtherin.com
Janice @janicedempsey.bsky.social British writer, artist, publisher (VOLE/Dempsey & Windle). No longer inviting individual ms submissions but offering publication in anthologies based on poetry competitions and a biennial pamphlet competition. Europhile avoiding politics with difficulty.
Stephen Payne @stephenjpayne.bsky.social Poet, Cognitive Scientist
Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social Poet on unnecessary themes.
Significant Wow out now with Seren Books.
Soozerama @soozerama.bsky.social Susie Wild | Poet/Writer | Books include: Windfalls, Better Houses, The Art of Contraception | Wales, UK
https://linktr.ee/Soozerama
Stephen Claughton @stephenclaughton.bsky.social Writes and reviews poetry. Chairs Ver Poets. stephenclaughton.com
Sharron Green @sharrongreen.bsky.social Poet who enjoys performing poetry and hosting poetry events
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Kate Smith @milliethepoet.bsky.social Poet/childless/dyspraxic/owned by cats.Sheffield, England. Debut pamphlet 'Imprint' out now from https://fawnpress.co.uk/ (as Kathryn Millington)
David Mullin @davidmullinhere.bsky.social Archaeologist, writer, letterpress printer.
jeremy over @jeremyover.bsky.social Poet. New book 'Fourth & Walnut' due out Feb 2025 with @carcanet.bsky.social
@zoeskoulding.bsky.social @zoeskoulding.bsky.social 
Dr Karen Downs-Barton SoA @karendownsbarton.bsky.social Minx (@chattobooks), Didicoy (@poetrybusiness), Elise Dillsworth agency, I am a mentor, Creative Future steering committee, @kcl.ac.uk, workshop leader Shakespeare and Race. Proudly working class and neurodiverse. #PoetsOnBluesky #MinxOnTheRoad
Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social Poet and writer. NEW PAMPHLET ‘State Honey (Leafe Press, 2026) @leafepress.bsky.social ‘European Hymns’ (Shearsman Books, 2024), ‘There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch (Seren Books, 2025)
www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com
Caspar Wort @casparwortpoet.bsky.social Poet, Doctoral Researcher at Loughborough University, website: https://casparwortpoet.uk/ 
Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
@marymulholland.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social 
Dr Stephanie Conn @stephanieconnpoet.bsky.social Poet. 'off-kilter', 'The Woman on the Other Side', 'Island' (Doire Press). 'Copeland's Daughter' (Smith/Doorstep) Research: Poetry & Chronic Illness
Bohdan Piasecki @bohdanpiasecki.bsky.social Poet from Poland based in the UK. Lectures in Creative Writing at
University of Birmingham. 
Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social poet & short story writer & publishing workerer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ chihuahua lover 🥭🌌
debut pamphlet w/ fourteen poems🧡✨
https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/mango-starblush-by-kayleigh-jayshree
all views mine 👁️👄👁️
Agata Masłowska @agatamaslowska.bsky.social Poet, writer, translator {she/her} / debut poetry collection “Woman : Plant : Language” out with Bad Betty Press / https://agatamaslowska.co.uk / Maslowska = mass + love + ska
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
Kirsten Norrie @kirstennorrie.bsky.social Highland poet, MacGillivray at Bloodaxe Books. Fiction & non-fiction writer, Broken Sleep Books & Unbound. Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2024-5
Sheenagh Pugh @sheenaghpugh.bsky.social Lefty, writer, crazy cat lady- C Caroline Maldonado @carolinemaldonado.bsky.social Writes and translates poetry, mainly from Italian.
Peter Daniels @peterdaniels.bsky.social Poet, gay man, over 70
Andy Jackson @azjackson.bsky.social Writer, editor of poetry, including Poetry Scotland and Whaleback City Press. Knee-deep in assorted poetry-related malarkey including New Boots & Pantisocracies, the Otwituaries, Double Dactyl of the Week, Project Abeona and more.
Karan Chambers @karanchambers.bsky.social Order my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @SaloPress now!
Highly Commended Cheltenham Comp ‘23. Poems: The London Mag, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Mslexia, Propel.
Michael Stephenson @michaelstephenson.bsky.social Scottish poet, English teacher | 'Water Song' and 'Starsailor' @MariscatPress
Lynsey Gilmour @lalapie.bsky.social Poet, story teller, performer, mam fae Easter Ross.
Infrequently posting on or in poetry, Gaelic, Scots, left wing politics, music, art, Welsh and chicken keeping.
gary longden @garyfouroaks.bsky.social Poet, traveller, organiser of Poetry Alight in Lichfield , football fan, music lover, theatre lover and reviewer, film fan, general culture vulture
Simon Everett @simoneverett.bsky.social Founding Editor, Muscaliet Press (shortlisted for Michael Marks Publisher’s Award 2022). Managing Editor for @openlibhums.bsky.social and of its flagship Open Library of Humanities Journal. Poet, translator, InDesign nerd. 🏳️🌈he/him.
Bruise @bbruise.bsky.social Let's write a better future. “Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently." Rosa Luxembourg
linktr.ee/BenBruges
Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social Wordsmith and poet, Indie author, Tolkien nerd, kiwi in the Inner Hebrides, she/they. River Daughter (meander phase)
Relationship status: single [malt] 🥃
#RingsofPower #Tolkien #LOTR
#Poetry #Poem #IsleofMull
https://mybook.to/OnWildAir
Dawn Sands @dawnllsands.bsky.social 18 || foyle young poet, richard iii enjoyer, aspiring english teacher. usually moving line breaks.
find me on instagram @dawnllswriter + poetry here: https://linktr.ee/dawnllsands
Charlotte Oliver @coliverpoet.bsky.social 'Dressing Gown' (Dreich), Ilkley Lit. Festival 'New Northern Poet'. 'Big Ideas By The Sea' Festival Poet 2024. South Cliff Gardens' Writer in Residence. She/her
Michael Brown @spacearoundthepoem.bsky.social Overton Prize Winner and Northern Writers Award Recipient
Casey Bottono @bottonowriter.bsky.social Poet, writer and workshop facilitator discussing #disability, #grief and #mentalhealth
Based in SW England
http://theartypoet.substack.com
Nii Ayikwei Parkes @niiayikwei.bsky.social Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo https://t.co/V3GydO5tbs
#BookSky #BlackSky #GhanaSky #Poet
Dani Salvadori @danisalvadori.bsky.social Poet, digital image maker, PhD candidate. Emotional cartography and the poetics of migration.
Mel - Hopes Whisper Poetry @hopeswhisperpoetry.bsky.social Poet & writer ✍️ sharing words to wash the worries away, find the 🌈through the heaviest rain☔. Even in the darkest of days, Hope Gently Whispers you could try again. (Mum to an Angel, and Author of Finley's Footprints 👣)
@julianturnerpoet.bsky.social @julianturnerpoet.bsky.social 
Nia Davies @niapolly.bsky.social Poet, new book Votive Mess (Bloodaxe)
Kirsten Irving @kirstenirving.bsky.social Lincs-born, London-based poet and editor. Crows! Folklore! Viz!
Co-founder of indie press @sidekickbooks.bsky.social
w/ @shotscarecrow.bsky.social. My deliciously weird collection 'Hot Cockalorum' is loose!
https://linktr.ee/kirstenirving