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
Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social Poetry critic and editor. Norwich is my New York. Writing about poetry here: https://someflowerssoon.substack.com/
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Shellymäk @shellymak.bsky.social I post mostly blooms to balance out the dooms.
Artist, paper crafter, 🌈Ally, girl mom, Happy wife, 🌎amateur gardener, anthophile 🌹, #BloomScroller, #gardening, 🦓 spoonie, animal lover, 🦋consumer of news...
Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social Time Machines. Temporality. Ecology. Robots. Education. Associate Professor of 19th century British Literature. 
T. S. Eliot Prize @tseliotprize.bsky.social Home of the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for the best collection published in the year.
David Wheatley @nemoloris.bsky.social Cairngorm-regarder. Bairn-herder. 
Dr Rough, FSAScot @billyrough.bsky.social Art Historian/Lecturer at University of St Andrews. 19th & 20th century British Art, Music Hall, and Theatre. Occasional folkie / concertina player. Instagram: roughs_drafts
Kathryn Maris @kathrynmaris.bsky.social Writer (poetry, criticism, translation); poetry editor at AFM.
Boris Dralyuk @bdralyuk.bsky.social My Hollywood & Other Poems (Paul Dry Books); translate Babel, Zoshchenko, Kurkov, et al.; odds & ends @nybooks.com, @thetls.bsky.social, etc.; teach at @utulsa.bsky.social; EiC @nimrodjournal.bsky.social
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
Rob Spence @spencro.bsky.social Former Eng Lit academic. Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Penelope Fitzgerald, Robert Nye, but mainly Anthony Burgess, a fellow Mancunian.
robspence.org.uk shinynewbooks.co.uk
victorcrabbe on Insta
Substack https://open.substack.com/pub/rob611
Brian Ferguson @brianjaffa.bsky.social Edinburgh-based arts and culture journalist.
Arts and Entertainment Journalist of the Year - 2026 Scottish Press Awards.
Any views expressed are mine alone.
www.heraldscotland.com
Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social My library was dukedom enough. Novels: Red Pill, White Tears, Blue Ruin, Gods Without Men, My Revolutions, Transmission, The Impressionist. Essays in NYRB, Harper’s etc. Abolish ICE is the moderate position.
Oxford Poetry @oxfordpoetry.bsky.social Oxford Poetry is the oldest dedicated poetry magazine in the UK, and one of the oldest in the world. Est. 1910.
https://linktr.ee/OxfordPoetry
@billga2603.bsky.social @billga2603.bsky.social 
Scott Lyall @scottlyall.bsky.social "Not this. Not at all. I desire to press in my arms the loveliness which has not yet come into the world."
https://napier-repository.worktribe.com/person/110551/scott-lyall
Tim Scott @scribblingtim.bsky.social As Plath (nearly) said, I know I'm a writer because I get rejections... On that basis alone, I'm smashing it. 
Chrissy Williams @chrissywilliams.bsky.social Poet & Comic Book Writer | GOLDEN RAGE from Image Comics ("Battle Royale meets The Golden Girls”) | BEAR & LOW from Bloodaxe Books | PERVERSE magazine editor | https://open.substack.com/pub/chrissywilliams
The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine founded in 1953.
https://www.theparisreview.org/
https://theparisreview.substack.com/
Patrick McGuinness @padrig.bsky.social Endotic traveller. Recent books: Blood Feather 2023; Ghost Stations 2025. FRSL. Prof French & Comp Lit, Oxford. Rep'd Peter Straus RCW.
Camille Francois @camille-francois.bsky.social Writer, Dr
Poems in The TLS, Oxford Poetry, Mslexia, Poetry Wales, Magma Poetry, Wild Court, The North
Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social Writer from Cornwall: #TheGraniteKingdom, #TheTravelWritingTribe, #ThePathlessLand (forthcoming), Indonesian history; academic stuff on travel writing. Teaches Writing & Literature at ATU Sligo.
James Meek @jamesmeek.bsky.social Writer, London
Joanne Limburg @jlimburg.bsky.social Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
Simon Barraclough @simonbarraclough.bsky.social Poet, writer, tutor, editor. Fourth collection Divine Hours out now from Broken Sleep Books. Reader for The Literary Consultancy & others. Co-editor of Project Abeona (Humanity in Deep Space). Open to collabs. www.simonbarraclough.com
Sheri Benning @sheribenning.bsky.social Writer | forthcoming Civil Twilight (Carcanet); Field Requiem (Carcanet); The Season's Vagrant Light: New & Selected (Carcanet); et al. | Poems in The Paris Review, The TLS, PN Review, Poetry Review, Brick, et al.
https://www.sheribenning.com/
LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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Iona Fyfe @ionafyfe.bsky.social Rector of University of Aberdeen 🎓 Scottish singer | MG ALBA Musician of the Year | @rcstweets alumna | Join my Patreon for exclusive content: http://www.patreon.com/ionafyfe
Peter McDonald @pmcdthisandthat.bsky.social Poet, translator, critic, editor.
Alice Stainer @alicestainer.bsky.social Poet; lecturer; Victorianist; singer; Scottish dancer; nature lover; wine or tea, that is the question; the sea, the sea; land of the mountain & the flood.
Armando Iannucci @aiannucci.bsky.social Words and smiles.Partridge,Thick of It,Veep,Death of Stalin, Dr Strangelove Taskmaster,Podcast #StrongMessageHere. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/m0024cp6?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile Patron of Child Poverty Action Group, @cpaguk.bsky.social.
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Falmouth Poetry Group @falmouthpoetrygp.bsky.social Poetry Group set up in 1972 by Peter Redgrove. Meet 5 Times a month to share critique and write together. Occasional events and festivals Now a Stanza Group
Teddy Jamieson @teddyjamieson.bsky.social Writer for The Herald, The Sunday Post, Nutmeg & anyone else who will have me. Getting on a bit. Contact me @ teddyjamieson@yahoo.com
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/
Pat Kane @patkane.bsky.social 
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
Tarn MacArthur @tarnnation.bsky.social Poems in: London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, The New Republic, Poetry Review, & Poetry London.
https://linktr.ee/tarnmacarthur
Stephen Moran @sjmoran.com London Irish from Dublin, 1954-2854. Books: The London Silence, Day of the Flying Leaves, Ghosts and Pigeons. Made a living from computer programming. Website: StephenMoransMuseumOfIllusions.WordPress.com. "It's never too late to change the future" (HCR)
Roseanne Watt @roseannewatt.bsky.social Writer, poet, musician from Shetland. Minoritised language, islandness and illness. She/shö/her. Author of multi award-winning poetry collection 'Moder Dy' (Polygon, 2019). Jerwood Poetry Award Winner 2024.
https://linktr.ee/roseannewatt
Bill Manhire @pacificraft.bsky.social Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170049/wow/ in the UK.
Toitū Te Tiriti!
Emily Berry @no1emily.bsky.social Poet ⛲️
North Sea Poets @northseapoets.bsky.social Noticeboard and live commonplace book of North Sea Poets. We run online masterclasses, workshops and webinars.
northseapoets.com
Steve Aylett 📚 @steveaylett.bsky.social Writer of LINT, The Book Lovers, Slaughtermatic etc, and Hyperthick comic. Weird/SF/slipstream/satire. Neurospicy, tall, in Scotland. 🪐📚 www.steveaylett.com
Dr Dorothy Lawrenson @dorothylawrenson.bsky.social Writer, editor and proofreader. Honorary Lecturer at the University of St Andrews. www.dorothylawrenson.com
The Edwin Morgan Trust @edmorgantrust.bsky.social Trust of the first Scottish poet laureate, Edwin Morgan.
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
The Proverbial Aphorism @blue-sky-aphorisms.bsky.social
A commonplace of found aphorisms & proverbs.
"Aphorisms are like airplanes,
they stay up only while they are in motion."
—Nabokov
"All songs are proverbial—
those of birds, rivers, winds, rocks . . ."
—DW
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Brenda Shaughnessy @brendashaughnessy.bsky.social Poet, friend. Wrote Sensorium Ex, an opera, with composer Paola Prestini (2025.) Books of poetry: TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016) Our Andromeda (2012) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999).
Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social
"Are you okay?"
MN, January 2026
New book: “Killing Spree”,Carcanet (UK); FSG (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).
Julia Bird @juliamarybird.bsky.social Lover of words, music, cahoots and escapades
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
Erika Glenday @erikaglenday.bsky.social European. Südeifler. Needles & hooks. Poetry critic. Drives vehicles up to 7.5t. 🇪🇺🇩🇪🏴🇨🇭🇮🇹
Claudia Daventry @cdaventry.bsky.social Normal person by day, poet at full moons. Currently writing out of Scotland. Which is in the UK. For now.
Bridport, Ruskin, Hippocrates &c prizewinner. SPL co-chair. Solo chapbook The Oligarch Loses His Patience - Templar
Liam McIlvanney @liammcilvanney.bsky.social Crime writer in the Deep South of Aotearoa New Zealand
Jane Ace @janeace.bsky.social Publishing @poetrysociety.bsky.social UK. Editrix and professional cat-bore.
Hugh McMillan @hugemcm.bsky.social Poet, writer, books @LuathPress. Lives rural Dumfries and Galloway. Edits for Poets’ Republic and Drunk Muse Press
The Friday Poem @thefridaypoem.bsky.social Every Friday we post a review or a feature on the website and on Substack, and send it to subscribers. 1796 subscribers, 7300 post reads in November. 
Em Taylor @emwrote.bsky.social words • words • words
climate & community advocate | poet | founder Queer Poetry Collective | founder Islington Stanza of @poetrysociety.bsky.social
Hannah Lavery @hannahlavery.bsky.social Poet. Playwright. Performer. Director. Dancing in my kitchen. hannahlavery.com
Rebecca Sharp @rebeccasharp.bsky.social New collection forthcoming 2027 (Tapsalteerie).
Recently: Maiden Mother Mage (Matecznik Press 2025, performed at Culross Abbey & Glasgow Cathedral); Long Field Loop (Tapsalteerie 2024, longlisted Scottish Poetry Book of the Year). www.rebeccajoysharp.com
Forgotten Poets @forgottenpoets.bsky.social ❖ #ForgottenPoets & #ForgottenPrints ❖ Pre-1930s poetry & art ❖ Edited by Dick Whyte #dwpoems ❖ https://forgottenpoets.substack.com
❖ Poetry New Zealand ❖
#PoetryAotearoa
❖ Forgotten Press ❖
https://linktr.ee/forgottenpoets
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.
Katy Evans-Bush @katyevansbush.bsky.social Poet, blogger, freelance editor, UK. I mean there's a lot more obviously. Politics, movies, silly jokes, knitting, the end of the world, etc. My latest book is Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle (CB Editions) & I write at katyevansbush.substack.com
Ella Frears @ellafrears.bsky.social Poet etc.
Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
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
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
Michele Grieve @michelegrieve.bsky.social Poet & Writer
Pushcart Prize Nominee 2025
Tree Woman walking
the Druidic path
Reiki Master Teacher
Landscape 📸
ING @the_nature_connection_101
www.soultopage.co.uk
www.thenatureconnection.co.uk
Rachel Curzon @rcurzon.bsky.social Poetry, mostly.
Clare Pollard @poetclare.bsky.social Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS, etc
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Charlotte Mendelson @charlottemendelson.bsky.social New novel WIFE out now, Meanwhile: The Exhibitionist, Almost English, When We Were Bad, gardener
Christie Williamson @mcwpoet.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator; Yell man in Glasgow; twa books fae Luath, ‘Oo an Feddirs’ an ‘Doors tae Naewye’
Liam Bell @liambellwrites.bsky.social Writer and Senior Lecturer at Stirling Uni. Most recent novels, Man at Sea and The Sleepless. More at liammurraybell.com
Dr Kate Noakes @katenoakes.bsky.social Writer, Artist, Critic
Author of ten books Goldhawk Road (Two Rivers Press, 2023), Chalking the Pavement (Broken Sleep Books, 2024) and Real Hay-on-Wye (Seren, 2022)
www.boomslangpoetry.blogspot.com
Lives in Bristol
No book promoters or god bothers thanks
Jo Clement @joclement.co.uk Poetry, Print & People 🌈
🦉 Northern Writers Award Winner
🐕 Managing Editor Butcher's Dog
🍎 Lecturer in Creative Writing
📚 Poetry Book Society Selector
📖 Outlandish (Bloodaxe)
Proper Working Class Northerner 💪
Gypsy, Roma, Traveller 🐴
Sometime dodo 🦤
Ewan Morrison @mrewanmorrison.bsky.social Author of How To Survive Everything + Nina X.
New novel: FOR EMMA. March 2025.
Essays on http://ewanmorrison.substack.com
Website: ewanmorrison.com
David Morley @profdavidmorley.bsky.social Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
Niall O'Sullivan @rustyniall.bsky.social (in no particular order…) poet, essayist, lecturer, gamer, dad
buttondown.com/niall
niall.garden
Tony Williams @tonywilliams.bsky.social Novelist & poet. Latest novel COLE THE MAGNIFICENT
https://linktr.ee/tonywilliamswriter
𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝔸𝕟𝕥𝕠𝕟𝕪 𝕆𝕨𝕖𝕟 @markantonyowen.com 𝗣𝗼𝗲𝘁: @subruria.com
𝗣𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗿: @iamb.uk / @afterpoetry.com
𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival | Oct 6th: bit.ly/3TvBbRa
Matthew Paul @matthewepaul.bsky.social Poems. Reviews. Essays. Latest poetry collection The Last Corinthians (https://crookedspirepress.com/the-last-corinthians-by-matthew-paul).
‘[…] an exceptionally well-crafted collection.’ - Acumen
www.matthewpaulpoetry.blog/books
Freya Hellier @freyahellier.bsky.social I make radio & podcasts about music, society, sex + culture, ex
@bbcradio3. Scottish, parent, crap pianist, hopeful accordionist.
Producing some of Screenshot on BBC Radio 4, Menopause Unmuted, + Everything Jazz
https://linktr.ee/freyahellier
Deryn Rees-Jones @notjustdancing.bsky.social Poet, editor, critic
https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/
https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
https://thamesandhudson.com/paula-rego-the-art-of-story-9780500021378
Rodge Glass @rodgeglass.bsky.social Dad. Writer. Cheerleader at Strathclyde Uni. Author of 8 books inc Alasdair Gray: A Secretary's Biography, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs & Joshua in the Sky (Taproot 2024). Big fan of praise. (Giving & receiving) www.rodgeglassauthor.com https://linktr.e
Chitra Ramaswamy @chitgrrl.bsky.social Author: Homelands, Expecting. Journalist: The Guardian. Restaurant critic: The Times Scotland. Used to be a person whose profile said only 'don't conclude anything without cheese'. Still am, on the inside.
Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
Tracey Herd @traceyherd-rio.bsky.social Poet (Bloodaxe Books) & snake mum. 🐍
Prolific. 3 books in 30 years. Last one -
Not in this World, 2015.
❤️ old films 1920s - 60s (Elizabeth Hartman), 50s & 60s music &, er, Showaddywaddy & Mud.
Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Roberto Bolano, Plath...
Sue Hubbard @suewriter.bsky.social Award-winning poet, novelist, art critic. Five poetry collections. Latest God’s Little Artist, poems on Gwen John, Seren. Four novels including Rainsongs (Duckworth), Flatlands (Puskin Press, Mercure de France). Sunday Times list best historical fiction
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
Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu staff writer @theatlantic.com and senior fellow @snfagora.bsky.social. author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE, TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY and AUTOCRACY INC
https://linktr.ee/anneapplebaum
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