Michelle DiSarno @michelledisarno.bsky.social Poet / Photographer/ Teacher in NJ
Writing about Beauty, Longing, Grief, Tension, Mystery
First poetry collection coming out next fall with Aldrich Press
Here to share, encourage and create!
Substack @michelledisarno
Hongwei Bao (he/him) @queercomrades.bsky.social Queer Chinese writer and academic based in the UK; author of The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press), Self-Portrait as a Banaba (Poetic Edge) and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage).
Courtney Ward @courtsward.bsky.social Still healing ๐ธ still fighting ๐บ never giving up ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ #fierce #fighter
โจneurodivergent and chronically ill ๐
Writer, artist and photographer.
Published poet.
MalFoxxxy @malfox.bsky.social 
Chris Cambell @chriscambell.bsky.social Creative Studio by day, Poet by night!
Queer/Nonbinary/Neurodivergent/Native American. (They/he)
@k8jenkinson.bsky.social @k8jenkinson.bsky.social 
Hazel @hazelthepoet.bsky.social Transgender woman, parent, daughter, sister, poet, word-wrangler, community volunteer, artist, musician, Everton supporter, dreamer.
I am the cosmic onion, 10,000 layers deep.
Gamer Poet Jaimes @esk8jaimes.bsky.social 32, he/him, #Autistic #Poet, #Ska #Cyberpunk #Steampunk and #Esk8 enthusiast. Mainly #Nintendo gamer. Share the hype of #IndieGames and #Poetry Joined 27th Nov 24' UK
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B09N9KVH32
https://www.facebook.com/jaimeslikeswords
Patricia Debney @patriciadebney.com Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re coming of age thru child sexual abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ https://patriciadebney.com/
#CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir
Ste Gen Mo Dem ๐๐ ๐๐ณ @stegenmodem.bsky.social Supporting Dems Everywhere SG 60 miles South of St Louis @piperformissouri.bsky.social @reichard4rep.bsky.social @fpwellman.bsky.social @wellmanformo.bsky.social @jesspiperfanpage.bsky.social @labarnitz.bsky.social @iquitcigs.bsky.social ๐๐ญ๐
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
Julian Matthews @julianmatthews.bsky.social Poet, writer, essayist. Links: http://linktr.ee/julianmatthews
RedPandaOL @redpandaol.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐[20]{pan/demi}He/His I am a nerd bookworm artist gamer avid and proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community, Love is love. Always be you. Thank you!
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
Al DโAndrea @snowlional.bsky.social Theater Director, Actor, Teacher, Playwright
SDC, AEA, SAG-AFTRA
Lifelong Meditator
Student of Tibetan Buddhism
Musical Theater
Artistic Director - Snowlion Repertory Company & Boothbay Summer Theater
Married (33 years) with Cats
Have traveled many roads
Post-Capitalist Pedagogy @post-cap-pedagogy.bsky.social educator | philosopher | poet | enby | clown | neurodivergent | underachiever
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
Script Haven LTD @scripthavenltd.bsky.social Thriving independent bookshop, coffee shop, event venue, safe community haven in Worcester, UK!
scripthavenltd@gmail.com
https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/scripthaven
5 Crown Passage, Worcester WR1 3LL
scripthaven.co.uk
Also on Insta, Facebook and Twitter
Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social possible poet.
Lucky enough to be published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry.bsky.social etc
mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
Daniel Land @danielland.bsky.social "Dream Pop Cult Hero" (๐คฃ). Singer/songwriter of confessional, queer-themed shoegaze with literary leanings. Writing a memoir about homophobia. English Lit (UoM) / MA Musicology (LCM). He/him (ish). Links: https://linktr.ee/daniellandmusic
Mus'd @mus-d.bsky.social Rather be woke than weird.
Creative Community.
Teachers.
Queer and whatevs. Your body, your biz. Science is real. Oh and Fuck Trump et al. ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://mus-d.com
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBMVXC
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
Nina Parmenter @ninaparmenter.bsky.social Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Books: โSplit, Twist, Apocalypseโ, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022. โKiss Chase with Darwinโ forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books, Nov 2026.
Michele Grieve @michelegrieve.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Pushcart Prize Nominee 2025
Tree Woman walking
the Druidic path
Reiki Master Teacher
Landscape ๐ธ
ING @the_nature_connection_101
www.soultopage.co.uk
www.thenatureconnection.co.uk
Corinna Board @corinnaboard.bsky.social EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her.
https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
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@iamb.uk Poetry. Seen and heard. Four times a year. Enjoy new and previously published work from established and emerging talent.
Every poem read by its author. iamb.uk
iamb.uk/index/wave/25
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.
Fin MacArthur @finmac1.bsky.social Writer of comedy and poetry. Should perform more or less depending on who you ask x
Pamela Moffatt @pcmoffatt.bsky.social Parent, reader, author, listener, speaker. Ph.D.
#peace #humanrights #oneworldfamily #art #lifeasart #booksky ๐๐(she/her) First memoir on Amazon (see below). โ๐ป๏ธโค๏ธ Not AI
More about me here: https://about.me/pamelamoffatt
Alison Manning @alisonmanning.bsky.social Poet, poetry film maker, author of World Without Endless Sheep and occasional lemon grower.๐
https://alisonmanningwriter.wordpress.com/
Joel Auterson | DWG out now! @joelotter.com Irish game dev, poet, cat dad. I make games at @bearwaves.com, maintain the eos4j library and the Growl game engine! he/him
๐ฆฃ https://otter.garden/@joel
๐ https://www.joelotter.com
Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social She/her, Disability Justice, feminist, equalities consultant, writer, performance poet. Zines, physics, poetry, politics, cats, accessibility, landscape, Scotland, complexity ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟโค๏ธ๐ฆ
https://linktr.ee/FionaRobertson
Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social Poet. Speaker. Educator. Performer. Adult, YA, and Children's poetry. Occasionally picture books. Lots of posts about churches. Unapologetically trans (he/him) jayhulme.com
Salena Godden @salenagodden.bsky.social NEW novel 'The Life Of Life' publishes March 2027
'The Good Immigrant - 10th Anniversary Edition' out this month, September 2026, Canongate Books
https://salenagodden.substack
https://www.salenagodden.co.uk
Poetry Pharmacy @poetrypharmacy.bsky.social Poetry place-the World's 1st Poetry Pharmacy prescribing poetry & more in Bishop's Castle & Oxford Street, London. Poetry on Prescription since 2012
Www.poetrypharmacy.co.uk 
Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social Independent poetry publisher ๐งpress@outspokenpress.com
outspokenpress.com
https://linktr.ee/outspokenpress
Lou Mach @louloumach.bsky.social Mancunian, Writer, Reader, Educator, UoM, Centre for New Writing. Collaborative pamphlet, The Words of Others are All We Have, Hedgehog Press, (2024). Collection, I Am Not Light, Black Bough Poetry (2025)
https://www.louisemachen.com
JP Seabright @jpseabright.bsky.social genderqueer genrefluid writer of things #pwME ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ช๐บ๐
Latest book: Solitary Hotel ๐ค Check links for all the others!
Co-editor of https://effable.uk
https://linktr.ee/jpseabright
https://jpseabright.com
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Math Jones @mathjones.bsky.social "Alas, the poet can only say so much.
So very much."
Leominster, Here(&Now)fordshire, UK.
Posting random thoughts on poetry, on mythology, Paganism, Heathenry.
Oh, and that also.
https://linktr.ee/mathjones
Katie Ailes @katieailes.bsky.social Poet, researcher, educator, dancer. Co-Director, I Am Loud CIC. 2023 Glastonbury Poet in Residence. she/her.
Sophie Herxheimer @sophieherx.bsky.social Artist, Poet, Londoner, Mother, Teacher, Draw-er of Stories, Maker of Books, Ink Enthusiast, Collagist, co-anthologist with Bill Herbert
@ghostfurniturecatalogue, submit?
www.sophieherxheimer.com
www.poetryteapot.wordpress.com
(More settled on instagram)
Matt Abbott ๐ @mattabbottpoet.com โ๏ธ๐ป Poet, novelist & educator
๐ 3 full-length poetry books ๐ 1 novel
๐ Leeds, UK ๐ฆ #lufc โ๏ธ He/him
๐ง AuDHD ๐ค @livewirepoetry.org
๐ mattabbottpoet.com
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
VERVE Poetry Festival @vervepoetryfest.bsky.social Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word โจ#Brum and onlineโจ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshopโจ
https://vervepoetryfestival.com
Arachne Press @arachnepress.bsky.social Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, Welsh poets, and geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
Ross McFarlane @rossdmcfarlane.bsky.social Poet, promoter, project manager. Producer of Folxlore. Production Manager of Camlann. Founder of In The Works spoken word theatre company. (he/him)
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
Tyrone Lewis @tyronelewis22.bsky.social Poet/Photographer/Video Editor/Camera Man
'Jedi Grandmaster Poet'
โVanguard of the spoken word communityโ
โLegendary creatureโ
Tom Juniper๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ @tomjuniper.bsky.social Your weird, AuDHD, trans auncle. Sometimes poems and stories, sometimes unsolicited info dumping.
I don't care if you talk about me as long as you do so using he/him or they/them pronouns.
Hannah Chutzpah @hannahchutzpah.bsky.social Poet, nature/craft goblin, mother of @dragonsoflondon. Often #ArrangingRainbows. ADHD & queer. Intersectional solidarity or GTFO.
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
George Violet Parker @agparker.bsky.social Pushcart, Best of the Net, National Diversity Award & Space Crone Prize-nominated writer
Co-editor eff-able
Debut collection Gynandromorph ๐
Co-director Queer Stage Revolution
Disabled & Queer Artist of the Year 2022
EDS, etc.
https://linktr.ee/a.g.parker
Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer.
Sixth pamphlet โPatient L1โ out Feb 2025.
Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026.
https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
Out-Spoken Academy @outspokenacademy.bsky.social Intensive online poetry courses. Register now for March 2025 4-week Creative Non-Fiction with Amy Key and Jenn Ashworth.
Joe Duggan @joedugg.bsky.social Poetry: Fizzbombs (2008) & Rescue Contraptions (2022) Tall Lighthouse, SpokenWordMusicCollabs w/Woodleigh Research Facility & Warriors of the Dystoteque. Community Facilitation SE19+Lewisham, Transition Towns / Library of Things/ Low-income pov. Gestalt.
Mark Coverdale @cov-art.bsky.social Art School Mod Poet / Founder of Tonic Sta Press / Drums & Vocals with Three Clicks Left
artschoolmodpoet.com
The Poetry Takeaway @thepoetrytakeaway.bsky.social One stop poetry shop
antonia jade @antoniajadeking.bsky.social Doing my Phd on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, talk to me about that, Beyoncรฉ or coffee๐Poetry Pamphlet out with Bad Betty Press (lit agent @sileloquies)
Demi Anter | Writer + Teacher @anterdemi.bsky.social ๐ฆจ Writer (SMALL MACHINE), Teacher ("Writing Berlin") and Cat Mother
๐ Long-form thoughts shared on the Creative Fruits newsletter
๐ tinyurl.com/creativefruits
๐ London / Berlin / L.A.
๐ demianter.com
๐๏ธ Upcoming gigs: https://linktr.ee/demianter
Francis-Xavier Mukiibi - Poetry @fxmpoetry.bsky.social ๐ Mutabani & [ ]ther Poems out 12th June 2025 (Bad Betty Press) | Poet & Performer | Eric Gregory Award | Creative Future Writers' Award
Melanie Branton @melaniebranton.bsky.social Spoken word artist, Green Party member, lover of linguistics and cryptic crosswords, hater of plastic (she/her or they/them)
Arden Fitzroy @ardenfitzroy.bsky.social Actor โข Writer โข Voice Actor/Voice Over โข Producer โข Facilitator โข Model โข Poet โข
Fight Performer โข
Rose Bruford โข FRSA โข
Rep: 23 Talent Management
they / them โข London
https://linktr.ee/ardenfitzroy
https://app.spotlight.com/7655-7837-9839
Robert Garnham @robertgarnham.bsky.social Writer, poet, humorist, comedy performer www.professorofwhimsy.com
Alexander Woody Woodward @adwoodward227.bsky.social Poet; writer; lover of myths, games, and silliness. Two-time winner of The Vogon Poetry Slam. Pro-Am bearded human. 
Debra Watson @debrawatson.bsky.social Poet, Performer, Facilitator,
Cultural Activism
Trust & Foundations Fundraiser (Hospice)
Sam J. Grudgings @samjgrudgings.bsky.social Host at Large.
Occasional artist. Horror Laureate. Sober AF. Loud Yelling. He/they.
Books with Verve Poetry Press & Broken Sleep
Read my Poems -
https://linktr.ee/samjgrudgings
Allographic Press @allographica.bsky.social Proudly platforming the voices less heard since 2011; poetry books, anthologies, open mics, workshops, writing spaces, festival stages, and more. Progressive as hell; bigots need not apply.
https://linktr.ee/allographica
stewart carswell (he/him) @stewartcarswell.co.uk mostly poet | Earthworks (2021, Indigo Dreams) & Knots and branches (2016, Eyewear) | no writer, yet he writes | always be within reach of a forest
๐ linktr.ee/stewartcarswell
Tessa Foley @tessafoley.bsky.social Poet. New-ish collection available from Live Canon https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/try-to-find-me-tessa-foley
Kevin Mclean @kevoutloud.bsky.social Creative Director I Am Loud Productions,
Spoken Word Artist, Wrestling Fan. Socialist.
Email: kevin@iamloud.co
He/Him
Jeremy Dixon @jeremydixonpoet.bsky.social Poetry & Book Arts | he/him
THE BEAT THE PULSE THE WAVE
(Order: https://shorturl.at/Xc8PD)
BOLD IN THE LIFE
(Order: https://shorturl.at/BGTfA)
A VOICE COMING FROM THEN
(Wales Book of the Year Poetry Award 2022)
IN RETAIL
(Order: https://t.ly/qUcAE)
Joe Williams @joewilliamswriter.bsky.social Writer, poet, performer, event manager, idiot. Leeds, UK. Author of 'The Taking Part', 'An Otley Run' and others. Occasional contributor of stupid letters to Viz. Available for gigs, workshops, commissions, hosting, etc. https://joewilliams.co.uk/
Ben Macpherson @benmacpherson1.bsky.social Writer and Performer that bridges poetry comedy and theatre! Talk to me about Performance, Facilitation and Dramaturgy.
Lover of Cooking, Classics and Card Games (mtg)
https://linktr.ee/Benmacpherson 
I Am Loud CIC @iamloudpro.bsky.social Scotland's premier spoken word organisation, learn more about our work at iamloud.co
Loud Poets: Best Regular UK Spoken Word Night 2023
linktr.ee/IAmLoudPro
G @gsabiniroberts.bsky.social 
Michelle Diaz @michelleadiaz.bsky.social #poet #singer #mother
Chaucer Cameron @chaucercameron.bsky.social Poet, poetry, poetry film https://www.poetryfilmlive.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideal-World-Id-Not-Murdered/dp/1916344747
Caleb Parkin @calebparkinpoet.bsky.social Poet ๐ก PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity ๐ฟ 'Mingle' - Nine Arches โฃ๏ธ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep ๐ช Bristol City Poet, '20-22 ๐ฆ Ecopoetry, queer ecologies ๐ Music, dancing, DJing ๐ถ Say hello ๐๐ผ
https://linktr.ee/CalebParkin
Polly Atkin @pollyrowena.bsky.social Writer, Lake-swimmer, Bookseller.
FRSL
hEDS/Haemochromatosis/all the comorbs
she/her
rep @PortyLiterary
Books incl:
Recovering Dorothy
Some Of Us Just Fall
The Company of Owls
Emergency Dream
Swimming The Seasons
https://linktr.ee/pollyatkin
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People ๐
๐ฆ Northern Writers Award Winner
๐ Managing Editor Butcher's Dog
๐ Lecturer in Creative Writing
๐ Poetry Book Society Selector
๐ Outlandish (Bloodaxe)
Proper Working Class Northerner ๐ช
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller ๐ด
Sometime dodo ๐ฆค
Rachael Clyne @rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack
#PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity
#poets #ukpoets
Vic Pickup @vicpickup.bsky.social UK-based poet - โLost & Foundโ, โWhat Colour is my Brainโ (Hedgehog Press) & full collection โThe Omniscient Tooth Fairyโ (Indigo Dreams) - postgraduate researcher, co-runs Poetsโ Cafe Reading & Stanza. vicpickup.com
Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social โ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints โ Pre-1930s poetry & art โ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems โ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com
โ Poetry New Zealand โ
#PoetryAotearoa
โ Forgotten Press โ
https://linktr.ee/forgottenpoets
Caleb Staps @calebstaps.bsky.social AuDHD Poet & Workshop Facilitator
Featured by BBC Upload & BarrowFull
Open for Performances & Commissions
Maisie O'Kelly @maisieokellyartist.bsky.social International Artist
Stewart @perpetualstewart.bsky.social
~ amateur writer | amateur adult ~
~ trans & queer | australia
{he/him}
Tara A. Elliott @tara-a-elliott.bsky.social Poet, Teacher, Executive Director of Eastern Shore Writers Association, Host of Thursdays with ESWA Writing Zoomcast, Chair of Bay to Ocean Writers Conference
George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social Husband, Actor, Activist, Uncle George to the Internet ๐
Ruth Aylett @ruthaylett.bsky.social (she/her) Author, poet, socialist, feminist, Heriot-Watt emeritus professor with research in AI, social robotics/agents, affective computing
All views personal; likes/shares are not support
Jason Conway @daydreamacademy.bsky.social Professional daydreamer & award-winning creative - designer, poet, writer, artist & mentor - MA Creative Writing Bath Spa - AuDHD - forest bather
Editor Steel Jackdaw Magazine
Director Gloucestershire Poetry Society
https://bio.site/jasonleeconway
Nia Broomhall @niaandthepoems.bsky.social Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize winner 2023, โBackalongโ out now with Bloodaxe. Poet in Residence at Painshill Park with ACE. Co-Head of English. Brass bander. Somerset sonneteer. Cheese fan. Hi!
Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com