Megan Specia @meganspecia.bsky.social International correspondent at The New York Times, covering the UK and Ireland
Paul Connolly @thepaulconnolly.bsky.social Writer
Poetry: Debut collection due Spring ‘27
(Broken Sleep Books)
Forward Prize/BOTN nominee
100+ poems in Agenda, Stand, Poetry Salzburg, Chiron Review, IS&T etc & on BBC
Charles Causley & Bridport shortlists
Prose: Orwell Prize/Bridport Novel longlists
Robert Sheppard @robertsheppard.bsky.social Poet, critic of recent formally innovative poetry & poetics, emeritus prof at Edge Hill, and all that follows. Books from Shearsman, KFS, Salt, Broken Sleep, Palgrave, LUP, & all that follow. Blog: www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com
Alex Houen @alexhouen.bsky.social § Academic https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Alex.Houen
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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social 'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
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Harry Man @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social Poet, Translator | RLF Reading Round Fellow | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers 🏆 | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk || https://linktr.ee/harrymanoninstagram
Fiona Pitt-Kethley @fionapitt-kethley.bsky.social Alpha female. Writer who lives in Spain. I will sometimes post in Spanish.
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Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
Di Slaney @dislaney.bsky.social Animals, nature, poetry. Publisher/editor Candlestick Press. Founder http://www.manorfarmcharitabletrust.org / Winner Plough Prize 2022. New collection Hard Graft out 21.09.26
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social Poet. Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Neurodishevelled. She/her
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Deborah Finding @deborahfinding.bsky.social queer writer into feminism and mythology, how original.
Poetry books: Vigils for Dead and Dying Girls (Nine Pens), Amortisation (Live Canon) and My Marxist Valentine (Write Bloody UK)
1st poet in residence @ Soho Poly
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Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Caroline Bird @carolinebirduk.bsky.social Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020
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Ben Wilkinson @benwilko85.bsky.social Writer, poet, “refreshingly honest” critic, tutor. Poems: Way More Than Luck (2018), Same Difference (Seren Books 2022). Criticism: Don Paterson (LUP 2021). Writing has appeared in Guardian, New Statesman, Spectator, TLS, etc. Lifelong Red. Likes a jog.
Anthony Anaxagorou @aanaxagorou.bsky.social poems
Aoife Lyall @aoifelyall.bsky.social Poet, editor, mentor, teacher.
The Day Before (Bloodaxe Books) out 22nd February 2024
Amy Key @amykey.bsky.social Writer - Arrangements in Blue, Isn't Forever, Luxe. My substack is So Glad I'm Me https://amykey.substack.com/
Amy Jo Philip @ambulancebox.bsky.social Poet. Author of “The Ambulance Box” and “The North End of the Possible”. New book coming in 2026. | Priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Edinburgh and member of general synod | she/her 🏳️⚧️ https://linktr.ee/amyjophilp
Amaleena Damlé @amaleenadamle.bsky.social Associate Prof in French, Durham University. Poet, in Acropolis, Atrium, After, Dust, Dreich, IceFloePress, Indigo Dreams, Ink, Sweat & Tears, others. Editor at Paragraph, EUP.
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Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
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Paul Nash | Paul atten Ash @northseanavigator.bsky.social WRITER:
Sampler (Black Cat Press 2027)
'Searchlight Seasons' (Atomic Bohemian 2024)
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"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
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Gabriel Flynn @gabrielflynn.bsky.social Writer. Debut novel, Poor Ghost! out in paperback from Sceptre July 2026. Doing a PhD on Adorno & novel theory. Co-editor of @creativecritical.bsky.social. Berlin & UK.
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Tarn MacArthur @tarnnation.bsky.social Poems in: London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The New Republic, Poetry Review, & Poetry London.
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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
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Jonathan Catherall @jonathancatherall.bsky.social Poetry, arts, reviews. Editor of Tentacular magazine
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Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
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Karen McCarthy Woolf @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social Poet. Novelist. Essays. Nature geek & speaker addict. Author Top Doll 2024. TS Eliot Prize Shortlist. Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar UCLA. FRSL. Teaches at Goldsmiths. Faber Academy. 🎶🐿️ 🪐
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Jack Petrubi @jackpetrubi.bsky.social A man of many words.
Taylor Strickland @taylor-strickland.bsky.social Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
Zachary Gillan @megapolisomancy.bsky.social Nonfiction about weird fiction at Seize the Press, Strange Horizons, Interzone, Los Angeles Review of Books, Nightmare, and Ancillary Review of Books, where I am also an editor. Also jazz, metal, leftism. he/him
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Linzey C. @westofwestindian.bsky.social Chaotic Good | Academic Bad(die) | Water itself. Writer & Postdoc Scholar @Toronto Metropolitan University. Lighting matches & raising the dead. West of West Indian (Mawenzi House 2024).
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Small Axe Project @smallaxeproject.bsky.social A Caribbean Platform of Criticism
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Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
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Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
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Jonathan Totman @jonathantotman.bsky.social Poet and Clinical Psychologist. Collections "Night Shift" and "The Sessions" both published by Pindrop Press.
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Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
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Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social Irish poet living in Spain
Cacti & other poems
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Patrick Kavanagh Award 2021
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Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
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