@adrianwriter.bsky.social @adrianwriter.bsky.social Writer, teacher of English & once upon a time I was also Birmingham Poet Laureate. Latest project: The Amazing Mister Hackwood (a play for summer 2025 tour)
Dr Patrick Wright @arainbowpoet.bsky.social Poet/Writer | Lecturer, English Literature and Creative Writing @OpenUniversity | SFHEA | Nullaby and Full Sight of Her @EyewearBooks | Exit Strategy @brokensleep | www.patrickwright.co.uk
Rachel Bower @rachelbower.bsky.social Author based in Sheffield. Poetry & fiction. IT COMES FROM THE RIVER (Bloomsbury, 2025). Represented by Cathryn Summerhayes, Curtis Brown 📚✨
Beth Davies @bethdaviespoet.bsky.social Sheffield Poet Laureate 2024-6. The Pretence of Understanding published 2023 by The Poetry Business. Librarian by day. Appreciator of pretty skies and dogs in little coats.
Dr Suzanne Conway @suzanneconwaypoet.bsky.social Poet. Writer.Teaches at Exeter University and the Poetry School. PhD: intimacy and distance in Edward Thomas’s poetry. No one’s Moon Founder and Project Manager.
http://www.suzanneconway.co.uk.
Image from the Edward Thomas archive at Cardiff University.
Charlotte Lunn (she/her) @charlottelpoet.bsky.social 🌙Queer, disabled, poet
✨📖 seller @scarthinbooks
🌙Co-host of Rebel Riot Poetry
✨Metamorphosis with Verve Poetry Press
🌙Specialist Academic Notetaker 📝
John Redmond @johnredmond.bsky.social Irish poet who lives in North Yorkshire. Teaches at University of Liverpool. Likes chess and rugby. https://www.johnredmond.co.uk/
Ben Banyard @benbanyard.bsky.social Dad, poet-type & editor of Black Nore Review (@blacknorereview.bsky.social). Birmingham City fan & Bristol Bears RFC season ticket holder. https://ben.banyard.wordpress.com
Peter J Donnelly @pj-donnelly.bsky.social Poet. Author of 'Solving the Puzzle' and 'The Second of August' both published by AlienBuddha Press.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Second-August-Peter-J-Donnelly/dp/B0BV4JF13Y
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Solving-Puzzle-Peter-J-Donnelly/dp/B0C9SK19RV
Susan Darlington @susandarlington.bsky.social “I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry” (The Smiths). Books include Lives Outgrown (Dancing Girl Press), Never Wear White (Alien Buddha Press), and Oracle of Snails (upcoming, Hedgehog Press).
Helen Calcutt @helencalcutt.bsky.social ‘There is no toxic optimism here – just truth, body and life.' @Mslexia — Feeling all / Artistic Director: https://www.beyondwordsdancetheatre.com/
@alicehiller.bsky.social @alicehiller.bsky.social 
Elizabeth Stott @elizabethstott.bsky.social Writer - fiction, poetry, things. Physics degree. Interested in science, arts, life and the natural world (not just on Earth!) Like to draw, paint and make a mess. Some of my inky doodles on Instagram @elizabethstott7
olive franklin @usuallyolive.bsky.social poet etc etc
olivefranklinwrites.wordpress.com
Marc Brightside @marcbrightside.bsky.social UK poet. Won a thing once. Got two books somewhere. 'Keep it in the Family' (2017). 'Personal Impersonal' (2020). 'In June' (2026) https://ko-fi.com/marcbrightside
Romalyn Ante FRSL @romalynante3.bsky.social AGIMAT (Chatto, 2024)
Antiemetic for Homesickness (Chatto, 2020)
Black Country 🔁 Batangas
www.romalynante.com
Colin Bancroft @colin-bancroft.bsky.social Poet. PhD on the Ecopoetics of Robert Frost. Waterfalls and fell walking. Wrestling fan.
Si Griffiths @ontheoutbreath.bsky.social Poet, author and community organiser
#Debone&Fold out now with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Representing Wales 24-25. Words in @classworkproject.bsky.social @icefloepress.bsky.social linktr.ee/sigriffiths
Jonathan Wonham @jonathanwonham.bsky.social Scottish 🏴 indie poet, author of Poetry Introduction 7 (Faber & Faber), Steel Horizon (Incline Press), Ordinary Others, Vulgar Variants, The Ukraine Trilogy and Ceasefire Now! (Drizzle-Dazzle)
Dr Colin Will @colindwill.bsky.social Scottish poet, fiction writer, editor, plantsman, musician, ex-librarian and information scientist.
David Pollard @davpol8112.bsky.social ‘Nietzsche’s Footfalls, ‘The Poetry of Keats’ and 10 volumes of poetry.
Pauline Sewards @paulines.bsky.social Brighton based, butterfly minded, cat lover, reader, sometime poet.
Mehmet Izbudak @baudelairescat.bsky.social Urban Minotaur @LiveCanon. Poet & playwright. Translates. Dabbles in art. Too lazy to write a novel. Malika's Poetry Kitchen & Tideway Poets. 
Pete Strong @petestrongpoet.bsky.social Writer. Poetry and other things. Bridport Prize shortlisted. “delicious musicality” FringeReview “hard not to feel your own re-emergence” Arts Dispatch
Claire Booker @clairebooker.bsky.social Nature lover, Brighton-based poet. Collections include 'Pedestrian in the Multiverse' (Waterloo Press), 'A Pocketful of Chalk' (Arachne Press), 'The Bone That Sang' (Indigo Dreams). More info and blog at www.bookerplays.co.uk
Emily Vanderploeg @emily-vanderploeg.bsky.social Writer, cat person, 🇨🇦 in 🏴, “Strange Animals” (Parthian, 2022). “Suppertime” (Substack) for hot takes on books, dinner, and pop culture of the past! https://substack.com/@emilyvanderploeg
Suzanna Fitzpatrick @suzannafitzpatrick.bsky.social Poet published in magazines & anthologies in the UK, US, Ireland & Canada. Debut pamphlet: Fledglings (Red Squirrel Press, 2016). First collection: Crippled (Red Squirrel Press, 2025).
Noel Cowley @noelcowley.bsky.social Poet-songwriter, possibly.
🍉
Imogen Wade @imogen-wade-poetry.bsky.social Here for the poems ❤️
https://lutyensrubinstein.co.uk/authors/imogen-wade
Gill Barr @gillbarr.bsky.social Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
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
Sarah Wedderburn @sarahwedderburn.bsky.social Poet and other kinds of writer - Poetry Ireland Review, PN Review, Oxford Poetry, Narrative Magazine, Perverse, etc. Dog devotee. Marsh roamer. Art lover. City dweller living in the sticks. Poetry collection THE I OF MY STORM (Green Bottle Press) 2026
Shash Trevett @shashtrevett.bsky.social Poet & Tr | ‘The Naming of Names’ (Smith|Doorstop 2024) | ‘Out of Sri Lanka’ (Bloodaxe 2023)| Ledbury Critic | Trustee Modern Poetry in Translation
Rose @roseramsden.bsky.social avid attention seeker & writer
Natalie Crick @natalieiswriting.bsky.social Poems in The Poetry Review, The Moth, Banshee, The Rialto, New Welsh Review, SAND journal, Mslexia🍄
Poetry Editor: Fragmented Voices🩶
Tim King @speakingsong.bsky.social I'm mostly poetry...
Andy Breckenridge @drbafc.bsky.social Poet. Winner: Indigo Dreams Poetry Comp 2023.
Book of poems The Fish Inside available here https://flightofthedragonfly.com/shop/
The Liquid Air available from https://hybriddreich.co.uk
Lapsed Obanite. PTFC&CPFC
Charlie Gracie @charliegracie.bsky.social Poet, novelist, short story writer, social worker.
Latest book: Belfast to Baillieston (Red Squirrel Press, 2023) www.charliegracie.scot
Kieren King @kierenking.bsky.social Award winning performance poet and creative producer based in Manchester.
Confident onstage, quite shy off it.
Jen Hughes Writer @jenhugheswriting.bsky.social uh made this account in a rush to find a good social media, I'll add my bio later
Peter Kenny @peter-kenny.bsky.social Creative maverick. Writer of poetry and dark fiction. Co-hosts and co-produces the Planet Poetry podcast. 
Stevie Reeves @steviereeves.bsky.social Jazz fiend, storyteller, poet
Jennifer McGowan @arimala.bsky.social poet, medievalist, calligrapher, illuminator, archer, indifferent seamstress. Some say fey.
Rue Collinge @thewordtinker.bsky.social Disabled poet & community artist. North East. Writing about hope with dragons in it, and hEDS. Pre-order debut pamphlet with Verve Poetry Press! linktr.ee/thewordtinker
Annie Fisher @maureenmuse.bsky.social 
Bel Rimmer @belrimmer.bsky.social PhD, Women's Voices in Poetry, MMU. Poet and short story writer. Joint winner of Indigo-First pamphlet competition (2018). Second pamphlet published by New Walk Editions (2022). Three times short-listed for the Laurie Lee Prize for Writing.
Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social Poet & Nurse & that
Works in Mental Health services
Helps run Cafe Writers
Most recently pub in Poetry Wales & 14 Poems
Knits, reads, runs. Likes Trade Unions
Studied at UEA (nursing & Creative Writing) & Aberystwyth (international Politics)
Non binary
Natalie Scott @nataliescottwriter.bsky.social writer / educator / poet / certified facilitator / ACE awarded / creator of Pen Power - Writing for Wellbeing / NE England / neurodivergent / Edgar's mum / releasing words into the wild since 1999. www.nataliescottwriter.com
Bradley Taylor | Poet @bradleytaylorpoet.bsky.social Roundhouse Poetry Slam Champion 2024
Host of The Big Gay Poetry Night
bradleytaylorpoet.com
IG: @bradleytaylorpoet
Keith Jebb @keithjebb.bsky.social Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
c.l.hanks @chloehanks23.bsky.social 26 year old poet based in York. Winner of the V Press Prize for Poetry in 2020. PhD @ YSJ.
Co-host for Howlers Spoken Word Open Mic & Board Member for York Lit Fest.
(Adulteress, Querencia Press 2023)
Abi Curtis @abicurtiswriter.bsky.social Professor of Creative Writing York St John University . Writer of fiction and poetry .
Meryl Pugh @merylpugh.bsky.social (She/her) London UK, writing thinking & skulking. Latest: Feral Borough, 2022, Penned in the Margins. https://furtive11.wordpress.com
Adam Burbage @burbagea.bsky.social 
So Mayer @suchmayer.northsky.social They/them. Overthinker. Reads things, writes things. BAD LANGUAGE out now with Peninsula Press 🐉 THE WORD FOR WORLD (co-ed) out now with @silver-press.bsky.social 🌳 Website & newsletter: somayer.net. Won't age-verify so no DMs.
Alex Houen @alexhouen.bsky.social § Academic https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Alex.Houen
§ Co-editor of Blackbox Manifold http://www.manifold.group.shef.ac.uk
§ Poet https://blackspringpressgroup.com/products/ring-cycle
Vanessa Lampert @nessalampert.bsky.social 
Bobby Parker @bobzparker.bsky.social Outsider Art | Poetry | Writing | - works: Blue Movie, Working Class Voodoo, Honey Monster, Longing is the Grace; debut novel in progress
Natalie Ann Holborow @natholborow.bsky.social Author of 'Little Universe' and 'Small' | Content Marketing Manager at Synergy Learning | Runner | T1D | 'Wild Running' out September 2025 📚🏃♀️
Kayleigh Campbell @kayyyleighc.bsky.social Dr, Teaching Creative Writing & Academic Skills in HE. Latest work | Sailor's Blue with Broken Sleep Books https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/kayleigh-campbell-sailors-blue
Olivia Heggarty @oliviaheggarty.bsky.social Writing pommes
Henry St Leger @henrywriteswords.bsky.social gamer poet + technology reporter | words for TechRadar, GamesRadar, The Times, NBC, Healthline, Independent, Dicebreaker, and more
Maria Ferguson @mlferg.bsky.social Poet. Playwright. Performer.
Swell (Penguin 2025)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/459719/swell-by-ferguson-maria/9781802064353
Paul Terence Carney @paulscribbles.bsky.social Writer and reader (well, audiobook listener, mostly). Poetry collection, ‘The Empty Horizon’, and pamphlet, ‘Into the Earth’, published by Live Canon. New book, ‘This Box of Stolen Sunlight’, coming soon…
@disleyrascal.bsky.social @disleyrascal.bsky.social I am a poet and writer, and run a small publishing enterprise called Beatnpress. I love Beat Generation literature, Jazz, Clobber and things of a Modernist nature.
https://www.beatnpress.co.uk/
Adam Piette @adampiette.bsky.social Professor of Modern Literature, University of Sheffield. Poetry, fiction, war studies, translation. Co-editor with Alex Houen of Black box Manifold.
Eileen Farrelly @eileenfarrelly.bsky.social Scottish poet based in Glasgow. Occasional runner, printmaker, songwriter photographer…
Katie Beswick @drkbez.bsky.social I write poems, arts criticism and stories. Babe, I live a life of the mind.
Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social Poet
Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
Naomi Jaffa @naomijaffa.bsky.social Poet, producer, editor, founder/director of Poetry People CIC, singer, recent lurcher-lover, lifelong horse-adorer.
David M. Hoyle @david-m-hoyle.bsky.social Poetry reader and writer. Poems in Rough Diamond Press, Alien Buddha themed anthologies, Iota, MIDLVLMAG and others. Music transcriber. Art, history, outer space. Lives on south coast, UK.
Mike Ferguson @mferguson-writer.bsky.social teacher/writer/poet ~ for more info, go to 'About' at https://gravyfromthegazebo.blog/
Sue Wallace-Shaddad @suewallaceshaddad.bsky.social Poet based in Suffolk. Three pamphlets published. Writes reviews, runs workshops, blogs. Trustee of Suffolk Poetry Society. https://suewallaceshaddad.wordpress.com
Roger Bloor @rogerbloor.bsky.social Poet and author- coeditor of The Alchemy Spoon. Sole employee of Clayhanger Press.- S Sarah Barr @sarah-barr.bsky.social Poet, author, creative writing tutor
‘Hawthorn’ (2024) & ‘January’ (2020) poetry pamphlets
‘Night Zoo’ (2022) short story collection
Karen Goodwin @mssgoodwin.bsky.social Poet and journalist. Poetry Editor at Sabotage Reviews. Teacher Trailblazer at The Poetry Society. She/her
Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Caroline Davies @carolinemdavies.bsky.social Poet and poetry enthusiast
Tamar Yoseloff @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social Poet, lecturer, festival curator.
Suffolk / London
Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social Shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for ‘The Immigration Handbook’(Seren). Refugee caseworker. Lives in Wembley. ‘Bycatch’ published by Nine Arches Press Oct 2025. Hawthornden Fellow. http://www.carolinesmithpoet.com
Stephen Paul Wren @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social Poet. PINE/NEEDLES out Sept ‘26. BOtN nominated. Director of Molecules Unlimited. Leads Wren research group. University of Cambridge PhD. AFC.
Theresa Muñoz @munozpoems.bsky.social 
Katy Mack @katymack.bsky.social Poet | First, I Turn Off the Light (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) | Research Associate at U of Sussex
Cheryl Moskowitz @cherylmoskowitz.bsky.social Poet, writer, facilitator
Suna @sunaafshan.bsky.social Poet & Translator
Editor of Pallina Press
pallinapress.com
sunaafshan.com
Kate Simpson @kate-elspeth.bsky.social writing through extinction
'Out of Time: Poetry from the Climate Emergency' (2021)
Kate North @katenorth.bsky.social Writer, academic, allotmenteer, cat wrangler
Stephen Lightbown @stephenlightbown.bsky.social Adult and children's poet. Picture book writer. Adaptive surfer. Yoga teacher. Northerner. Wheelchair user. Represented by Alice Williams.
claire silverman @clairesilverman.bsky.social writer & mfa poet at university of st andrews
she/her
Dr Nathan Walker (they / them) @nthnwlkr.bsky.social Cumbrian Performance Artist & Writer ➵ Course Lead for BA Fine Art @ York St John University ➵ Ⓐ ➵ They / Them
https://linktr.ee/nthnwlkr
nat raha @fullnommunism.bsky.social poet & activist-scholar
📚 Trans Femme Futures: Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds @plutopress.bsky.social
📚 apparitions (nines), Nightboat Books
Queer.party/@fullnommunism
she/her
Mair MacLeod @mairmacleod.bsky.social 🌲TRANSPIRATION (ignitionpress, 2025)
✨poet, writer, 1/2 of crisp packet poetry 🥔
📍glasgow
🖋️recent writing at the link below
➡️ linktr.ee/mairmacleod
Dr Nick Makoha FRSL @nickmakoha.bsky.social Author of The New Carthaginians | shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize | Book available on Penguin Press in 2025 |@PenguinUKBooks Agent | Aparna |
Holly Corfield Carr @hollycorfieldcarr.bsky.social writer | poet | lecturer
https://hollycorfieldcarr.co.uk/
Harriet Truscott @harriettruscott.bsky.social Poet. Only in it for the money.
(And now also a CHASE-funded PhD student working on the blank spaces of 20th century poetry at UEA.)
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
https://theemmapress.com/shop/poetry/pamphlets/noon/
Nathaniel King @nathanielking.bsky.social Poet | Ghost Clinic, Broken Sleep Books | Eric Gregory 2024 | PhD research in hauntology at Royal Holloway |
Bella Cox Poet @bellacox.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Performer, Facilitator
📍London 🏳️🌈🇪🇸🇬🇧
📖 poetry pamphlet ‘SIKILIZA’ out now
👇🏼 website, videos, poems, drag and more
https://linktr.ee/BellaCox
Susannah Dickey @susannahdickey.bsky.social does books
Tennis Lessons (2020)
Common Decency (2022)
ISDAL (2023)
Forthcoming: to pieces (2026)