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Dust Poetry @dustpoetry.bsky.social Just poetry. Digital UK-based poetry magazine.
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Rosie Johnston @rojohumanwriter.bsky.social Writer, mentor, poet published in UK, Ireland & USA living by the sea in UK. New non-fiction soon from Colorful Crow, USA. Five published poetry books since 2010: latest 'Safe Ground', Mica Press 2025. Reviews for londongrip.com
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Margaret Royall @meggiepoet.bsky.social Poet, author, tutor, 7 books, cat lover, visiting art galleries and museums, choir, bookclub, countryside, photography, Indian food, Francophile, travel
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
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Subpress Poetry @subpresspoetry.bsky.social Community-organized press publishing chapbooks and books. New chaps in 2026 from Bob Holman, rob mclennan and others, as well as books by Daniel Bouchard and Elizabeth Marie Young, Kimberly Lyons’ selected, and Steve Carey’s collected.
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@johntheobscure.bsky.social @johntheobscure.bsky.social Flaneur, eco-conscious, photographer, advocate, writer, doomer.
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Public School Poetry @publicschoolpoetry.bsky.social Poetry and Craft for the Riff-Raff. System-shattering poetry & essay experiments www.publicschoolpoetry.com
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Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
Eleanor Holmes | Eliot North @eleanorholmes.bsky.social Previously @eliot_north on Twitter/X. ND mum-doctor-writer of poetry & prose. Living in Valencian Country, working as NHS GP Weston-super-mare.
#Moth Hybrid Mini-Book Ethel Zine - second edition 🚀 July 2026
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social Poetry stuff only. Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards.
Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Joint 1st BB New Simile Competition.
Dr. Rachel Turney @rachelturney.bsky.social Educator and artist based out of Denver. 🌄 @turneytalks
Rachel Carney @createdtoread.bsky.social Cardiff based Poet, Writer, Academic 'Octopus Mind' (Seren Books) - a Guardian Best Poetry Book of 2023 https://linktr.ee/createdtoread Teach creative writing, writing on/around ekphrasis, neurodiversity, creativity, climate crisis, art
Jane's Studio @janes-studio.bsky.social Jane Cornwell is an artist, illustrator & book designer. Bibliophile.
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social "Delightfully bleak."
In real life, I'm a working mother of two, with a boring job in IT.
On here, I am a poet, writer, artist, and crafter!
Member of the #PoetsOfDoom crew.
Member of the #PromptCombo team.
Survivors' Poetry 🎤📚🌈 @survivors-poetry.bsky.social Survivors’ Poetry was founded in 1991 by poets with first-hand experience of the mental health system. We host monthly live open mic meetings 2nd Tuesdays of the month at The Harrison in King's Cross and 4th Tuesdays via Zoom https://survivorspoetry.co.uk/
Leia Butler @leiabutler.bsky.social Writer from London. Studying MA at Royal Holloway. Tear and Share (brokensleep) - Thoughts I lost in the Laundry (stanchion) - make up my mind (steelincisors) other work in Streetcake magazine - she/her
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Gill Barr @gillbarr.bsky.social Derry girl, Dorset woman. Debut Poetry Collection (Cinnamon Press) 2025, Arts Council Award 2024. Website: gillmbarr.wixsite.com/gillbarr
Saraswati Nagpal @saraswatinagpal.bsky.social Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple. Poetry: 'Drench Me in Silver' (Black Bough, 2025)
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal
Penny Walker @penny-walker-sd.bsky.social Speculating…
…in fiction and non, eco hopeful. Likes: compost, air, salvage. Dislikes: AI slop, shouting.
Writer in residence walklistencreate.org 25/6
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Erin Bondo @erinbondo.com Canadian writer in Scotland (via Denmark (got lost on the way home (sorry mom))) | Pushcart nominated | Placed/listed: BFFA, Bridport Prize, Welkin Prize, others | Tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig | She/Her
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Laura Theis @lauratheis.bsky.social Author of 'A Spotter's Guide To Invisible Things', 'Introduction To Cloud Care', etc.
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Jen Ratcliffe @jenratcliffe.bsky.social ✏️Writer, birder, boater, poet
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Wren Wood @wrenwoodwrites.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Poet, nature educator, and natural materials artist from London.
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Ruairí de Barra @paperneverrefusedink.com Procaffinator. Veteran. Artificer. Bodger. #Author. #Poet. Lost #Mayo Man.
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Barnaby Harsent @jahshabby.bsky.social Writer and occasional DJ. Supplying poetry and music to rooms of largely indifferent drunks.
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Jordan D. River @jordanriverwrites.bsky.social Pericollapse poet/author. Game/Book reviews. I write short stories, essays and novel mostly in verse across genre, but typically horror adjacent. Check media tab for latest from me.
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Frank Hudson @frankhudson.bsky.social Founder of the Parlando Project — “Where Music and Words Meet.” Composes, records, researches, writes, & those things feedback into each other.
Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
John Adlam FRSA 🌈🌍 @johnadlam.bsky.social groups 🔄 activist research ✍ #welcometheboats ⛵ #antiracistpractice ✊ #traumanotpd ❌ Gaia theory 🌍 psychosocial studies 📚 practices of equality 🤝 open mic poetry 🎤 Bob Dylan 🎸 Brixton 🧡 https://barrelblog.org https://open.substack.com/pub/johnadlampoems
Pascale Petit 🌿🐅🌱🐆🌿🦜 @pascalepetit.bsky.social BEAST April 2025 (Bloodaxe),’Tiger Girl’ shortlisted Forward Prize, ‘Mama Amazonica’ won Ondaatje & Laurel prizes. 1st novel ‘My Hummingbird Father’ from Salt 2024 http://www.pascalepetit.co.uk
J.S. Watts @j-s-watts.bsky.social Writer (poet, novelist, short story writer and sometime reviewer) amateur photographer and very amateur musician. Website: https://www.jswatts.co.uk/
Dana Delibovi @danadelibovi.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator, lapsed philosopher. Consulting Poetry Editor, Cable Street, https://cablestreet.org. My book: Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila.
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Mike O’Brien @zoomburst.substack.com Sixty odd years old - Sixty Odd Press
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Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social Prizewinning poet
Harlow Stanza founder
Judge Harlow Open🏆
5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree Press|Seventh Quarry
Widely published inc
by Macmillan
Beatles|90s nostalgia
https://www.carmella-de-keyser.com/about
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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Ben Morgan @benjlmorgan.bsky.social Medea in Corinth - 2nd edition 2025 from Poetry Salzburg
poetrysalzburg.com/medea.htm
https://www.instagram.com/benmorganwriter/
https://benmorganwriter.wordpress.com/
Ulrica Hume @uhume.bsky.social Author of An Uncertain Age and House of Miracles. Labyrinth guide.
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www.ulricahume.com
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Read story: https://psalteryandlyre.org/2025/10/13/call-us-not-weeds/
Lawrence Moore @lawrencemoore.bsky.social Poet. Pushcart, Forward nominated.
This Joyful Interlude out now with @janes-studio.bsky.social 🕊️
UK link: amazon.co.uk/dp/1068432330
Vegan, BLM
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Jumping Jules Poetry @jumpingjulespoetry.bsky.social Julie Stevens, MS, poet. Forest Girl, Journey Through the Fire, Step into the Dark, Stickleback and Quicksand. Writes for adults and children.
www.jumpingjulespoetry.com
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
Sadie Maskery @saccharinequeen.bsky.social Functions adequately.
Short story collection, 'Overboard', published by Acid Bath Publishing.
May contain smut.
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.
Lucy Coats @lucycoatswriter.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Myth witch. Classical Association Prize 2017. Latin Programme Poetry Prize 2022. Bridport Poetry Shortlist 2024. Holy rage Feminist/Animist. 🐝 🐍
Lover of owls & goddesses.
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Niamh Hollis-Locke @niamhvh-l.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, too many hobbies-haver, etc. Shortlisted Ginkgo Prize, Heroines Prize. Writing a book (very slowly).
UK born, Aotearoa-based, holder of slightly too many English degrees. Enjoys a good walk.
https://linktr.ee/nh_l
Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social He collected things, each of a holy intention in isolation, but pagan in the variety of his choice.
—William Gaddis
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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
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Sophie Dumont @sophiedumont.bsky.social Poet | Editor | Copywriter
Debut poetry collection out with Corsair (Little, Brown Book Group) 📘🛶 Featured in The Guardian, Financial Times & Sunday Times Style.
“a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers” - Linda France
📍Bristol/Bath, UK
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
www.carolinebird.co.uk
Rhona Greene @rhonagreene.bsky.social Poetry✨Poetry✨Poetry
Sub-ed Storms Journal V⚡️
Pushcart nominee
Dublin Ireland
Featured: @iambapoet.com wave19
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@shadesofgreen.bsky.social
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Christiana Doucette @doucette515.bsky.social Author | Poet | SDWF Kids Write Judge | MGpies | SCBWI Mentee: Joy McCullough | Agent: Leslie Zampetti | #KidLitChat [Tuesdays 9pm ET] | MG Hub | Highlight’s Kay Yoder Scholarship for US History ‘24 | Intern for Kaitlyn Sanchez | https://bit.ly/3Zf7FiH
Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Writing poetry. 3 poetry collections, Living with Love, Time & Out There. Short stories, Thrice Remembered an Anthology.
I'm 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can.
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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
Philippa Bowe @philippabowe.bsky.social Flash fiction, poetry, translation / Micro nouvelles, poésie, traduction. Ghost City Press, NFFR, Reflex Fiction, Bath Flash Fiction, Spark2Flame, Neither Fish Nor Foul, The Hooghley Review. Pushcart Prize nom. Dance, LFC, la belle vie. Elue municipale. 🌄
Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social writer/poet/educator
https://substack.com/@seanjbates
https://linktr.ee/seanbateswrites
poems in:
Paddler Press
Emerge Literary Journal
Stone Canoe
Rising Phoenix Review
"What Saves Us"anthology ed. Martín Espada https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp
Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social Poet. Empowering midlife, eco & mother poetry. First collection coming 2027. Out now: Three Poems in Aftershock Issue 3| Debut Terrible Mother @theblackcatpoetrypress and Waterstones.com |Poems Linked Here:
https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social “Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
Dan Vera @danvera.com Washington, DC —poet| poetry foundation bit.ly/40tituc , editor, literary historian, 📚: Speaking Wiri Wiri (Red Hen) & co-editor, Imaniman: Poets at the (Gloria) Anzaldúan Borderlands (Aunt Lute). Quilt & watercolor. danvera.com
Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social somewhere between cold coffee
and used twist ties
is a paper life
in an automatic heart
Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social Poet. #ReadMorePoetry Collections: Crown of Eggshell, In the Shadow of Gods @BookWormSat w/ Signe Maene. Literature, art, myth, folklore, the gothic. Left wing. 🇪🇺 She/her 🌈🏳️⚧️ Ally https://linktr.ee/rachel_deering
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Jonathan Everitt @jonathaneveritt.bsky.social freelance writer | poet | Bennington MFA '20 | Rochester, N.Y.
jonathaneveritt.com
Norb Aikin @norbaikin.bsky.social 2x Writing.com Best Poetry Collection Quill Award winner and blogger. 3x published author. Former child. Hemmed up by JGM. #BillsMafia #Sabres #LGM #NDIrish Don't mind me; I hate everything. Norbaikin.com/blog
The Shore @theshorepoetry.bsky.social The Shore is an online poetry publication seeking cutting, strange, and daring work from new and established poets alike.
https://linktr.ee/theshorepoetry
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Clare Shaw @clareshawpoet.bsky.social Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent. 
Ian Tattum @iantattum.bsky.social Writer and independent scholar.
Used to be a vicar.
Writing in Spelt, Black Bough Poetry, BB journal, Frost Magazine, The Clearing,The Pilgrim, Landlines for Nature ,The Church Times.
Fellow of the Linnaean Society and the Zoological Society of London,
Aaron Kent @godzillakent.bsky.social Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
Broken Sleep Books @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018
Website: brokensleepbooks.com
Electoral Commission @electoralcommission.org.uk The independent body which oversees elections and regulates political finance in the UK.
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Penstricken @penstricken.bsky.social Penstricken is an online literary journal featuring short fiction and poetry from new and established authors. 📚✍️
www.penstricken.com
Thangam Debbonaire @thangamdebbonaire.bsky.social CEO UK Opera Association.
Cellist. Various boards.
Labour Member, House of Lords.
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Full House Literary @fullhouselitmag.bsky.social Poetry, prose, art. Submit it.
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The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social small press | big dreams
Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations.
www.theemmapress.com
Quaker Truth and Integrity @qtig.bsky.social Quakers have counted Truth and Integrity as one of their key testimonies for over 350 years. The Quaker Truth and Integrity Group aims to uphold our concern for truth especially in politics and the media
Francesca L Rolle @francesca-laura.bsky.social Art. Nature. Poetry. Life.
She/Her.
Silly Goose Press @sillygoosepress.bsky.social online lit mag obsessed with craft-forward whimsy 🪿 posts by EIC @lexirosenwrites.bsky.social🪿 Offerings to the Sturgeon Moon IS HERE 🪿 subs closed 🪿
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Elizabeth Rimmer @burnedthumb.bsky.social Poet, (Five collections, Red Squirrel Press) editor, occasional translator, blogs about place, plants, poetry, woke indy grandmother. https://linktr.ee/Burnedthumb. Scouse, Scottish and Woke AF #placeplantspoetry
A Thousand Shades of Green @shadesofgreen.bsky.social A Thousand Shades of Green is a Literary podcast, a blog and a press, celebrating contemporary writers.https://athousandshadesofgreen.com