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.
Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social Poet | First collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, published by The Gallery Press, May 2026
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. #poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.com
@dereksellen.bsky.social @dereksellen.bsky.social 
Everything Poetry Night @everythingpoetry.bsky.social A monthly spoken word poetry night, every first Monday of the month
Next event: Monday 7th September 2026, The Oystercatcher, Greenwich
Katie Griffiths @kmngriffiths.bsky.social Author of 'The Attitudes' and 'My Shrink is Pregnant'. Strumming member of Fells and Such.
Rebecca Goss @gosspoems.bsky.social More on Instagram @gosspoems
Poet & mentor. Books with Carcanet Press. Poet-in-Residence for CW+, the official charity for Chelsea & Westminster Hospitals. Writing for Life Fellow with the Royal Literary Fund.
Chris Sewart @chriswriting.bsky.social Writer and other stuff...
Festival for Poetry @poetryfestival.bsky.social Daily Poetry Deadlines
Submit for a free posting.
Submit for a poetry reading video.
Submit for your poetry to be made into a film.
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Jo Fox @joxfoxo.bsky.social I like writing poems and reading other people’s too. Picture Book writer - currently querying 🤞Published writer of short fiction in national women’s press. Novice knitter.
Maker of sensory tools and fidgets. Powered by ADHD⚡️
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Mari Ellis Dunning 🖋️ @mariellisdunning.bsky.social Author of 'Salacia' & 'Pearl and Bone' 📚
'Witsh' available now 🌛
Lecturer in Creative Writing 📓🖋️
PhD in Welsh Witchcraft 🎓
'Obstinate, headstrong girl'♀️
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Finished Creatures Poetry Magazine @finishedpoetry.bsky.social Independent, printed poetry magazine: ecopoetry and the environment; climate justice and politics; beauty and daring.
Issue nine - trespass - just published
Please see website for order details.
finishedcreatures.co.uk
Maggie Russell @magpierussell.bsky.social Editor + Proofreader + Writer.
Former attorney.
Storytelling, Editing & Content: www.maggierussellwriter.com
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Mary Mackey, author @marymackeyauthor.bsky.social Poet, New York Times bestselling author of Paleolithic Era novels, nonfiction writer, award-winning screenwriter.
https://marymackey.com/
Linda Dunn @dunn4authors.bsky.social Streamlining the author platform and strengthening the author brand.
www.virtualauthorsassistant.com
Epistemic Literary- Read Issue 8: Righteous Rage now! @epistemiclit.bsky.social Read Issue 8! Epistemiclit.com
Digital anthology series celebrating knowledge, connection, and growth through poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction.
EICs @melruthwrites.bsky.social and @kristinwrites.bsky.social. CNF Editor @gcbwrites.bsky.social
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
Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Poet, Mother, Southerner
📜Archives, Material Media Studies, American Poetry, Artists’ Books
🎓MA, MLS, MAE, MFA, ABD PhD (C&IS)
👩🏼🏫Teach: Typography, Games, Poetry, Gender Studies
🌐 https://linktr.ee/thedaybooks
🤐Posts don’t reflect my institutions
Poetry Gal @poetrygal.bsky.social Poetic licence.
@thealchemyspoon.bsky.social @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social 
Radio Lento @radiolento.bsky.social #Podcast. Landscape sound postcards in 3D immersive sound. Best with earphones. Listen while reading, resting or being mindful. Launched 2020. #SlowRadio
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J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
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
Yaffle @yaffles-nest.bsky.social Publisher of poetry collections and pamphlets. Yaffle and Yaffle's Nest
Online workshops and courses.
Anne McMaster @annierose25.bsky.social Poetry. Films. Photographs. Plays. Novels. Images my own unless a repost. Writing in English/Ulster-Scots. I chase words and the light. Available on tour, in books and on BBC Radio/TV. New work autumn 2025. Never too many cats.
Annest Gwilym @annestgwilym.bsky.social Poet, nature lover, Cymraes. Nominated/winner of writing awards/prizes. Author of three poetry books. My third, Seasons in the Sun, is available from https://carreg-gwalch.cymru/products/seasons-in-the-sun?_pos=1&_psq=Seasons+in+the+Sun&_ss=e&_v=1.
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
https://ko-fi.com/kofisupporter68929
ClaireBurnettWrites @claireburnett.bsky.social best stored outside
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).
Linda Middleton @lindapoet.bsky.social Children's poet. Poems in The Caterpillar, Little Thoughts Press, PaperBound, The Dirigible Balloon, Paddler Press, Parakeet, Charles Causley Trust, Northern Gravy, Candlestick Press, The Toy, Brian Moses' Blog, Tyger Tyger and anthologies.
Sally Goldsmith @salthepoet.bsky.social Writer and activist into landscape and radical history, natural world, voices, song, radio, allotments, utopias. Poetry at www.poetrybusiness.co.uk Working on memoir, #HoldingMyGround about connection to land, its romance and reality.
The Poetry Archive @thepoetryarchive.bsky.social With over 2000 free poems, 500 poets’ work and 5 million visitors a year, the Poetry Archive represents a rich diversity of both poets and poetry.
The Poetry School @poetryschool.bsky.social The Poetry School is the UK's largest provider of poetry education and a proud Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation.
🏝️ Book Summer Courses: https://poetryschool.com/new-courses/summer-2026-quick-course-guide/
The Bookseller @thebookseller.com At the heart of the book trade since 1858📚
News, charts, previews and more, online & in print. Buyer's Guides, conferences & The British Book Awards (Nibbies)✨
Door Is A Jar Literary Magazine @doorisajarmag.bsky.social Quarterly literary magazine of #poetry, short #fiction, #nonfiction, #drama, #art and #bookreviews with cadence and personality to take readers on a journey.
https://www.doorisajarmagazine.net/
Steve Eely @steveeely.bsky.social 
London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk Critical thinking, published every fortnight.
Read at lrb.co.uk
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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social Award winning indie publisher of new and classic writing on place, nature and culture + The Clearing our online journal.
Based in West Dorset
www.littletoller.co.uk
Instagram / @littletollerbooks
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com One of the UK’s leading independent publishers. Literary fiction, poetry and short stories, published with care. Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
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
Jean Atkin @jmatkin.bsky.social British, mostly Scottish, poet in education + community projects / The Poetry Wire online courses / 'Crossing Paths' with Richard Skinner, Black Cat Press, 2026/ out walking / plagued by the cat / www.jeanatkin.com
Rennie Parker @rennieparker.bsky.social Poet and FE worker, published by Shoestring Press: Candleshoe (2014) The Complete Electric Artisan (2017) Jongleur (2021) Balloons and Stripey Trousers (2024). Order from: www.bookshop.org or rennieparker.bigcartel.com.
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
Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social Award-winning publisher of modern, classic and translated poetry, and the bi-monthly literary journal @pnreview.bsky.social.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/CarcanetPress
Mark Fiddes @fiddes.bsky.social Latest collection ‘Hotel Petroleum’ (Broken Sleep). Poet and creative director at large. Dubai, Barcelona, London and unmapped places in between. https://markfiddes.com/
Charlie Ulyatt @charlieulyatt.bsky.social 'Charlie Ulyatt is one of our most accomplished poets of the minimal'
(Billy Mills, poet, editor, formerly literary journalist at http://guardian.co.uk)
Books from https://charlieulyatt.bandcamp.com/
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Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe….
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
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).
Lucy English @lucyenglish.bsky.social Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees.
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64
https://canceralleyproject.com
https://thebookofhours.org
DrNaturegirl @drnaturegirl.debbiemross.co.uk Poet, author, artist, baker, photographer. Keen gardner/veg grower, advocate for nature & the underdog. All year open water swimmer, thalassophile. Social & environmental justice NOW. Daily photo from Scotland.NOT a naturist!
https://linktr.ee/Debhandmade
Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social Poet, weaver, conservationist. Living a creative wild life in Cornwall
Dr David Clarke @davidwclarke.bsky.social Folklorist and Journalist. Associate Professor, Sheffield Hallam University. Project lead, AHRC National Folklore Survey. Views expressed entirely my own. http://www.drdavidclarke.co.uk/
Blog: https://drclarke.substack.com/
Abbi Flint @draflint.bsky.social Researcher and poet #archaeology #envhist #folklore #envhum #peatlands #moss #heritage #poetry #reindeer #sheffield #footpaths #RightsOfWay
Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social Poetry, Art, Politics and Pedagogy
Ross Bradshaw @rossbradshaw.bsky.social Bookseller and publisher at Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham. Libertarian socialist. Scot. That's all you need to know.
Helen Barrett @helenbarrett.bsky.social Features journalist. Next book: 'Something: The Women Who Made the Beatles' - May 2027.
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk 20,000 titles across two floors in Bloomsbury, plus the best events in town.
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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 📚🏃♀️
Chris Jones @cwjoneschris.bsky.social Read more of other people’s poems, that’s all I’m saying. Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University. Published by the magnificent Longbarrow press. I share a house through the summer with nesting swifts. Podcast:
https://twowaypoetry.podbean.com/
Ian Seed @ianseedauthor.bsky.social Author: Forgetfulness, My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
Café Writers @cafewriters.bsky.social Live lit events online and in Norwich
cafewriters.co.uk
Louise Mather @louisemather.bsky.social Editor of Acropolis Journal | Writer |
The Dredging of Rituals, 2021 | Published in The North | Broken Sleep Books | Fly on the Wall Press | Acumen Poetry | streetcakemag
The Poetry Business @poetrybusiness.bsky.social Smith|Doorstop Books • New Poets List • International Book & Pamphlet Competition • New Poets Prize • Writer Development Agency
https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/
Hugh McMillan @hugemcm.bsky.social Poet, writer, books @LuathPress. Lives rural Dumfries and Galloway. Edits for Poets’ Republic and Drunk Muse Press
Christie Williamson @mcwpoet.bsky.social Poet, essayist, translator; Yell man in Glasgow; twa books fae Luath, ‘Oo an Feddirs’ an ‘Doors tae Naewye’
Rory Waterman @rorywaterman.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, professor of Modern Literature & Creative Writing, co-editor of New Walk Editions. www.rorywaterman.com https://rorywaterman.substack.com/. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
Penny Shutt @drpennyshutt.bsky.social Poet, child psychiatrist, Kinship Carer and Whippet owner
Living in Edinburgh
She/her
https://linktr.ee/drpennyshutt
Kevin Williamson @kevwilliamson.bsky.social Writer, author, poetry, editor, publisher. Founder of Rebel Inc. Co-founder of Bella Caledonia. Co-founder of Neu! Reekie! Co-founder of Push The Boat Out international poetry festival. MDANT. Love poetry, books, chess, volcanoes, Hibs. Citizen of Leith
Tim Tim Cheng @timtimtmi.bsky.social Poet, Translator, Editor, Lecturer
🦥 The Tattoo Collector (Nine Arches Press, 2024)
🐸 Tapping At Glass (Verve Poetry Press, 2023)
🐙 2025 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program
🐌 glasgow / hk / IG@mymothercalls / timtimcheng.com
Carl Tomlinson @carlostommo.bsky.social Poet. Businessman. Smallholder.
Jennifer Wong @jennywcreative.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor / author of Light Year (Nine Arches Press), Letters Home (Nine Arches Press), Time Difference (Verve) & Writing Identity, Home & Elsewhere (Bloomsbury)
linktr.ee/jennywcreative
@isobeldixon.bsky.social @isobeldixon.bsky.social 
Kate Garrett @kategarrettwrites.bsky.social An incomprehensible being in very strange surroundings (just like you).
Writer in Shropshire.
UoB PGR in English Lit - hauntology, ecoGothic landscapes, & Daphne du Maurier. 🖤
Spooky is a lifestyle, not a season.
(She/They)
Vicky Foster @vickyafoster.bsky.social ✍️ Poet | Writer | PhD Student 🎓 | Columnist & Storyteller 📖
https://linktr.ee/vickyfoster
Raine Geoghegan @rainegeoghegan.bsky.social International Poet, Playwright, Curator & Editor of KIN, an anthology celebrating Romany, Traveller & Nomadic Communities with Salmon Poetry Press, Founder of Writing as Sanctuary’. #Breast Cancer Survivor/ Chronic Illness/ Disability
Caroline Hardaker @carolinehardaker.bsky.social Author, Poet, Novelist. A bit witchy. MOTHTOWN & COMPOSITE CREATURES from Angry Robot, LITTLE QUAKES & BONE OVATION from Valley Press.
Graeme Richardson @ravoon.bsky.social Poetry Critic for the Sunday Times. Anglican Priest. Poetry Collection, "Dirt Rich", out from Carcanet. TLS contributor since 2010. All views very much my own.
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
Nairn Kennedy @nairnkennedy.bsky.social Former lecturer at Leeds Beckett now living life as an emerging poet. Examples at http://nairnkennedypoet.co.uk
Rachel Jeffcoat @racheljeffcoat.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Plant-killer
Kirsten Irving @kirstenirving.bsky.social Lincs-born, London-based poet and editor. Crows! Folklore! Viz!
Co-founder of indie press @sidekickbooks.bsky.social
w/ @shotscarecrow.bsky.social. My deliciously weird collection 'Hot Cockalorum' is loose!
https://linktr.ee/kirstenirving
Nia Davies @niapolly.bsky.social Poet, new book Votive Mess (Bloodaxe)
Michael Brown @spacearoundthepoem.bsky.social Overton Prize Winner and Northern Writers Award Recipient
Karan Chambers @karanchambers.bsky.social Order my pamphlet ‘woman | folk’ from @SaloPress now!
Highly Commended Cheltenham Comp ‘23. Poems: The London Mag, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog, Gutter, Mslexia, Propel.
Peter Daniels @peterdaniels.bsky.social Poet, gay man, over 70
Sheenagh Pugh @sheenaghpugh.bsky.social Lefty, writer, crazy cat lady
Kirsten Norrie @kirstennorrie.bsky.social Highland poet, MacGillivray at Bloodaxe Books. Fiction & non-fiction writer, Broken Sleep Books & Unbound. Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow, University of Cambridge, 2024-5
Michael Pedersen @michaelpedersen.bsky.social Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / my novel Muckle Flugga is out now 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk
Dr Stephanie Conn @stephanieconnpoet.bsky.social Poet. 'off-kilter', 'The Woman on the Other Side', 'Island' (Doire Press). 'Copeland's Daughter' (Smith/Doorstep) Research: Poetry & Chronic Illness
Graham Mort @grahammort.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer, essayist, writer BBC drama. Emeritus Prof Lancaster University; Extraordinary Prof University Western Cape; National HE Teaching Fellow. Eric Gregory Award, Bridport & Edge Hill Prizes. Photography, blues & jazz enthusiast.
Andrew Taylor @dradny.bsky.social Poet and writer. NEW PAMPHLET ‘State Honey (Leafe Press, 2026) @leafepress.bsky.social ‘European Hymns’ (Shearsman Books, 2024), ‘There’s Everything to Play For: The Poetry of Peter Finch (Seren Books, 2025)
www.andrewtaylorpoetry.com
@zoeskoulding.bsky.social @zoeskoulding.bsky.social 
David Mullin @davidmullinhere.bsky.social Archaeologist, writer, letterpress printer.
Stephen Claughton @stephenclaughton.bsky.social Writes and reviews poetry. Chairs Ver Poets. stephenclaughton.com
Emily Cotterill @emilycotterill.bsky.social Poet on unnecessary themes.
Significant Wow out now with Seren Books.
Stephen Payne @stephenjpayne.bsky.social Poet, Cognitive Scientist
Olivia Tuck @livtuckwrites.bsky.social Trying to be a poet. Poem Whisperer. Arts administrator working with neurodivergent writers and creatives. Senior bookseller, and bookworm. Lit journal associate editor. Queer. Autistic. Selenophile. Grammar nerd. Maisie the spaniel’s human.
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