Poetry Daily @poetrydaily.bsky.social Poetry Daily presents a poem each day from new books and journals, along with poetry news, announcements, and more. Est. 1997.
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Kayleigh Jayshree @kayleighjayshree.bsky.social poet & short story writer & publishing workerer 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ chihuahua lover 🥭🌌
debut pamphlet w/ fourteen poems🧡✨
https://www.fourteenpoems.com/shop/mango-starblush-by-kayleigh-jayshree
all views mine 👁️👄👁️
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Keith 🇬🇧🇺🇸 @oneworld-onelife.bsky.social "So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.” Bede
Inherently skeptical but trying not to be cynical
Dr Karen Jane Cannon @karenjanecannon.bsky.social Poet//Author//PhD (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel: Powder Monkey (W&N & Phoenix). Poetry: The Curfew Bell & Emergency Mints. Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
Your Cyberpunk Future @lady8jane.bsky.social Freedom is merely privilege extended
Unless enjoyed by one and all.
(she/her)
hedwyg @hrollins.substack.com tech nerd working on software
epi nerd working on a phd
various other types of nerd as well
don't be nice; be kind
i love you all
#EDS #Disability #Kindness #shalom
https://en.pronouns.page/@hedwyg
Aleta @aletamosquito.bsky.social Cis WW, happily married panro demi; into books, libraries, geology, cats, Wikipedia, Unitarian Universalism, TTRPGs... 🔵
she/her/hers
Do NOT want to be chatted up in DMs.
Sarah Elizabeth Cox @oispooky.bsky.social 🥊 1880s boxing+wrestling historian
📕 THE DEVILS' DANCE FLOOR (Duckworth '27)
✍🏻 Hezekiah Moscow, Alec Munroe, Sugar Goodson, Wannop, Smith, Ball &c.
👊🏻 Write fight books raise dinosaur child
👩🏻💻 Science charity PR boss
🏖️ Clacton 💚
www.grapplingwithhistory.com
Tom Sastry @tomsastry.bsky.social Here for poetry chat and curious thoughts.
Nicola Chester @nicolawriting.bsky.social Nature. Writer. Reader. Radical Rural.
Guardian Country Diary, BBC Countryfile, RSPB.
Award winning author, On Gallows Down & Ghosts of the Farm
Climate Fic Prize Judge 2025
North Wessex.
https://nicolachester.com/
https://linktr.ee/nicolachesterwriting
@cindybegg.bsky.social @cindybegg.bsky.social 
Hannah B @hannahb.bsky.social Writer, editor, producer, performer.
Making things and making things up for fun and profit.
DMs off, reach me at https://linktr.ee/hb_media
Laura Strickland @l-strickland.bsky.social Poet, carer and freelance HR consultant from Yorkshire. Published in The North, Butcher’s Dog, Strix,The Frogmore Papers, Northern Gravy, Propel and others. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2023 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
Christopher Joyce - Author 🇬🇧 @chrisjauthor.bsky.social Fantasy and Horror author, songwriter, guitarist, budding bassist, burgeoning Bard, 'Boro boy...
https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Christopher-Joyce/author/B08DMC28TX?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true
Moira @moirabanks.bsky.social Lazy human, champion procrastinator, socially awkward, Impostor
Living in dreamland since 1957.
‘I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.’
Emily Dickinson
John McCullough @mrjohnmccullough.bsky.social Poet. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize for Literature with Reckless Paper Birds. Forward & Costa-shortlisted. Working-class writer. Next book: Crowd Voltage (Bloodaxe, March 2026). He/him. 🏳️🌈
Ming Ho @minghowriter.bsky.social Writer, walker, Europhile.
https://mbalit.co.uk/client/ming-ho-2/
A Many-Splendoured Thing, BBC Sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001str6 & https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001t3b2
Former dementia carer: http://dementiajustaintsexy.blogspot.com
Z.K.A. (she/her) @pegasusunder.bsky.social MY DARLING CLEMENTINE (Amistad, Aug '27)
THESE HOLLOW BODIES (Nov '26) - NEON HEMLOCK KICKSTARTER LIVE!
writer & psychiatrist M.D. (she/her)
zkabraham.com
rep @clgslr.bsky.social
Cinema Worms podcast!
❤️ @lindzmcleod.bsky.social
Dai George @daigeorge.bsky.social Poet, academic, other writings. Young and easy under the apple boughs. How to Think Like a Poet (Bloomsbury Continuum), out now
Jonathan McAloon @jonniemcaloon.bsky.social Book critic. Arts and culture writer 
Ellen Arnison @ellenarnison.bsky.social Nosy and inconsistent word juggler
https://linktr.ee/ellenarnison
Elizabeth Kemball🖋️🌛 @lizziekemball.bsky.social ♊ 29 | She/Her | South Wales
☕ From the Potteries.
🎓 Cardiff Uni MA | Warwick BA
🖋️ Writing a folk horror novel very slowly.
📚 Occasional poet & frequent reader.
📙 Bookstagram: devouring.words
Bozevannah Boswell @bozevannah.bsky.social Northern English-Romanichal Gypsy ☸️
MA Archives Student 📚
Aspiring Genealogist 🌳
colin clark @profcolinclark.bsky.social associate dean (r&i)+ prof of sociology & social policy @ UWS. interested in mobility, borders, identity, roma rights. fond of vinyl, cassettes, coffee, cats, swimming, autumn. glasgow.📍
Dr Alexandra Woodall @alexandrawoodall.bsky.social Beautiful things, culture, creativity, curiosity, care. Chesterfield Art Foundation course student. Museum and gallery consultant and mentor. Trustee of Create Sheffield. Co-founder of GLAM Cares. She/her. 🇪🇺 💚
Penny Shutt @drpennyshutt.bsky.social Poet, child psychiatrist, Kinship Carer and Whippet owner
Living in Edinburgh
She/her
https://linktr.ee/drpennyshutt
Helen Mort @helenmort.bsky.social Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Will Wilson @2wsphotography.bsky.social Will is a wildlife photographer who also writes about the life of birds and other conservation topics - www.2wsphotography.com
Alex Pheby @alexpheby.bsky.social Writer: GRACE/PLAYTHINGS/LUCIA/MORDEW/MALARKOI/WATERBLACK
Galley Beggar Press and Tor
Forthcoming: THE PICNIC/NOONE/LUMA
Agent: David Godwin david@davidgodwinassociates.co.uk
Amanda Quinn @amandaqwriter.bsky.social Writer, tutor, facilitator.
https://linktr.ee/amandaqwriter
Elaine Birdie Lawson @blackbirdie.bsky.social Tree hugger, cricket lover, boogie woogie country girl. Oldish, wise ish, surprisingly innocent, has tasted pleasure, interested in joy and truth. 
Don Paterson @dharmabam.bsky.social Scottish poet and musician
Ilya Kaminsky @ilyakaminsky.bsky.social www.IlyaKaminsky.com
Emily Berry @no1emily.bsky.social Poet ⛲️
BTO | British Trust for Ornithology @btobirds.bsky.social BTO is the UK's leading Registered Charity working with volunteers to improve our knowledge of birds through monitoring and research. www.bto.org
The Scottish Ornithologists' Club @scottishbirding.bsky.social The SOC is Scotland's Bird Club. We bring together like-minded individuals with a passion for birds and nature, through a programme of talks, outings and via our renowned journal, 'Scottish Birds'.
www.the-soc.org.uk
Catharine Morris @catharinemorris.bsky.social Executive Editor at The TLS (@thetls.bsky.social). Commissioning in Biography, Memoir, Travel, Book History, Language. Freelance writer
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.
Joanne Harris @joannechocolat.bsky.social Writer. Yes, that one.
(she/they)
Dr Nicole Willson @nlwillson.bsky.social Haiti/Black Atlantic scholar, poet and mummy. Passionate about public heritage and outreach, collabs and excavating the histories of Haiti's rebel women. AHRC CATALYST BUILDING A BLACK NATION COMMENCING FALL 2025. https://linktr.ee/fanmrebel.
@sydsdad63.bsky.social @sydsdad63.bsky.social 
Prof. Pragya Agarwal @drpragyaagarwal.bsky.social ND Scientist & Writer:SWAY, (M)OTHERHOOD, HYSTERICAL/Writing a new book coming early 2026 and spending a lot of time in libraries and archives. FRSA FRGS. V Prof at Loughborough. Fellow at Newnham College-Cambridge, Fulbright (CUNY), Oxford etc.
Val McDermid @valmcdermid.bsky.social Writer, broadcaster, civil(sometimes) partner, mother, lesbian feminist, lover of libraries, vocalist with the Fun Lovin’ Crime Writers. Once described as the ‘gobby shop steward of crime fiction’. Www.valmcdermid.com @quineofcrime on Insta
Susie Wilson @concordmoose.bsky.social Skin the Rabbit (The Braag) Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed (Verve). Writing long poems about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Runs Sub Club for Manchester Poetry Library. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield www.susiewilsonpoet.com
Aurora C @theaurorac.bsky.social Lawyer by day (but only for children), Muay Thai fighting fire eater by night, semi-southpaw Romany Gypsy curmudgeon all the time. Fiddler, 9/11 first responder, former aerialist, flâneuse. Union strong. Barrister and Solicitor, Esq.
Jen Longshaw @jenlongshaw.bsky.social Romani artist/writer living in rural New Zealand. Was once called a "CNN Communist" and "full of shit". Prone to sarcasm.
Rebecca Gethin @rgethin.bsky.social Gardener, poet, nature- watcher, novel reader, swimmer, other stuff 
Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social Theological Monsters (University of Wales Press), The Roma (The Bodley Head/Harper Collins, 2025) | 19thC Gothic
Pratibha Castle Poetry @poet-pratibha1.bsky.social Award winning poet. Pushcart/BOTN nom. Miniskirts in The Waste Land PBS winter 2023. Bridport s’list, Welsh Comp highly commended, 3rd prize Cannon also Plaza comps. Indigo Dreams l’list. Agenda, Stand, Tears in the Fence, Orbis forthcoming Under The Radar
Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Theatre goer, Music lover, Irishwoman abroad she/her
http://linktr.ee/SarahOCwrites
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
Esther Lay @estherlay.bsky.social Poet, Royal Navy wife, priest, singer. 2025 Forward Prize nominee, 2025 winner of East Riding Festival of Words. 2024 Winner of Write By The Sea. Poems in lots of places. Literary Agent: Kirsty McLachlan at Morgan Green Creatives.
estherlay.com
Ross Crawford @rosscrawford.bsky.social Scriever/writer in Scots/English. Scottish Book Trust New Writers Awardee 2024. PhD in Scottish History from University of Glasgow. Works in heritage. He/him. Views ma ain.
https://linktr.ee/rrmcrawford
The Parallel Effect Podcast @theparalleleffect.bsky.social The world we inhabit is not inevitable.
This is your portal into worlds that might have been, inspiring the world we want to build.
Subscribe for free here:
https://tinyurl.com/reimaginingpossibilities
Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
Minx Marple @minxmarple.bsky.social astrophel • a pearl scavenged from the toxic sludge • « botanical, celestial, erotic » • hedgehog chronicler
https://linktr.ee/isabellastreffen
Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social Writer/illustrator of the LOKI: A Bad God's Guide books, Writer of Otherland & The Dragon in the Library. https://louiestowell.com. No terfs. Many fluctuating fandoms incluing BtVS + Doctor Who. This feed isn't for kids.
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
Lucy Heuschen (she/her) @petitecreature1.bsky.social Pushcart & Jerwood Prize-nominated poet ~ Pamphlets with Hedgehog & The Broken Spine ~ Commended in Poetry Society Stanza Comp 2024 & 2025 ~ First Collection "Daughter of Fire" Yaffle Press 2025 ~ www.lucyheuschen.co.uk ~ IG: LucyHeuschenPoetry
Joseph Gale Burns @galeburns.bsky.social Poet and climate activist 
Moira Garland @moiragauthor.bsky.social Short fiction writer & poet. Feminist. Socialist. Northern England.
Dan Murphy @dmurphy.bsky.social dad/poet/educator/tradesman/gardener/bodhrán player/former boxer 🇮🇪🇸🇮
Winner, The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in poetry, 2024 (ESTATE SALE: University of Utah Press, 2025)
https://uofupress.com/books/estate-sale/
www.dmurphy.online
Calque Press @calquepress.bsky.social A small & occasional press of pamphlets, short-length books and anthologies. We work at the intersection between languages, ideas, crafts, genres. Pre-order: RAGGED BAND OF TRAVELLERS. (ed Jon Stone)
https://linktr.ee/calquepress
Patrick @patmanhattan.bsky.social I write essays at https://brightvoid.substack.com/
Colin Bramwell @brambrella.bsky.social Writer fae the Black Isle.
Chris Ferrary @chrisferrary.bsky.social Planner, transport planner, environmentalist, husband, season ticket holder @saracens, @Guardian crossworder, painter. Charity trustee. Old school leftie (although my father was a Toolmaker).
David-Vincent @david-vincent.bsky.social From Outer Space
It's always sunny in Cannes !
Julie Gardner @juliebird.bsky.social PhD student (NTU), poet, retired primary-school teacher. Avoiding bucket lists. My poetry pamphlet 'Remembering' published by @fiveleavesbooks.bsky.social September 2024. 
That Writer Chap @thatwriterchap.bsky.social I write stuff. Sometimes people even pay me for it. Sometimes. (Stares into camera) He/him #pwME
Blakey French @blakeyfrench.bsky.social (Act III) field philosopher (nascent) #Lostness #Doubt #Degrowth
… slatey immigrant, likely to repost pictures of hares.
ProfilePics: Big beard, straw hat & shades; with a vista of daunting hills.
Jayne @sacredwench.bsky.social Of coal and clay, and Staffordshire red.
Nature, local history, landscape and place. Always birds.
AL Dugmore @aldugmore.bsky.social Poet, copywriter, creative.
🥰Poppies and me @vanessajade.bsky.social Poet, dreamer, storyteller
"This is my letter to the World,
That never wrote to Me."
— Emily Dickinson
#WritingCommunity
Sarah Kelly @sarfern.bsky.social English Teacher | Organiser of English Meet Cork and researchED Cork | CPD Provider | Writing | Poetry
Rhianna Levi-Burton @rhiannalevi98.bsky.social Former Worcestershire Poet Laureate. Cover teacher. Youth worker. Social media manager. Published writer. Mental health advocate.
Coffee, cats, tattoos, movie fanatic. Tolkien enthusiast. 🖤
Worcester, UK
Harry Man @harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social Poet, Translator | RLF Reading Round Fellow | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers 🏆 | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk || https://linktr.ee/harrymanoninstagram
The Poetry Kiosk @thepoetrykiosk.bsky.social The Poetry Kiosk is a small press and exhibition platform of visual poetry run by Astra Papachristodoulou. Browse our shop and online exhibitions: www.thepoetrykioskcom
mark stephen [surname stolen] @markmwahwords.bsky.social Poet, music distro, cultural worker, abolitionist, educator. Benefitting from occupied indigenous land. Sissy vegan for spaceship Earth.
Sheree La Puma (Poet) @shereelapuma.bsky.social I'm a poet. Cancer survivor. Feminist. Reader OBR. Writes in Baja, MX & Los Angeles. MFA CalArts. Multiple BOTN & Pushcart nominations. Penn Review. Mantis. Pinch Journal. Frontier Poetry. Redivider. The Maine Review. Poetry Salzburg Review. 150 + journals
Ben Meyerson @benmeyerson.bsky.social Poetry collection SEGUIRIYAS at Black Ocean Press (2023) | PhD candidate at the University of Toronto studying flamenco, medieval troubadour lyric, Sephardic oral tradition, poetics and philosophies of material complexity | https://benmeyersonmedia.com
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
Ashley @ashleyedge.bsky.social Queer Trans Poet, performer, host, publisher, editor, all round fulfiller of their AuDHD. And cats. Always something CAT 🐈 https://linktr.ee/ashleyedge , Chief Editor at Poetic Edge Publishers, co-host of Prickly Pear Open Mic
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.
James Lilliefors @jameslilliefors.bsky.social Poet, journalist, novelist. Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. Poetry chapbook SUDDEN SHADOWS published last fall.
Fiona Pitt-Kethley @fionapitt-kethley.bsky.social Alpha female. Writer who lives in Spain. I will sometimes post in Spanish.
Sofia Barton @sofiabarton.bsky.social ✹ Workshops ✹ Design ✹ Murals
www.sofiabarton.co.uk
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.
Alice Frecknall @alicefrecknall.bsky.social Poet, short fiction writer & fine artist.
Poetry collection: Somewhere Something is Burning (Out-Spoken Press). linktr.ee/alicefrecknall
Paul McGrane @paulmcgrane.bsky.social 81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
Matthew Rice @matthew-rice.bsky.social Poet-PhD-Anti-racist. ‘Plastic’ forthcoming in January 2026 with Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK) & Soft Skull Press (US), available here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/790542/plastic-by-matthew-rice/
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. #poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.com
Paul Cowdell @paulcowdell.bsky.social I research, write on, & talk about folklore. Happy to have been variously described as an 'expert in morbid eschatology' and a 'cannibalism celebrity'.
@drneilastley.bsky.social @drneilastley.bsky.social 
Tony @tony1c.bsky.social I’m a Man Utd fan and I’m a gypsy, I’m a family man and a grandfather too two little boys.
James Rowan (aka Jimmy Knuckles) @james-rowan-photo.bsky.social Photographer, Archive Technician, Musician & Creative Consultant from Cornwall & Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ✊🏻 🇨🇦 📷
IG: @jamesrowanphotography
Dr Des Oliver @desolivercomposer.bsky.social BMus MMus DPhil (Oxon) | Composer | LSO Jerwood Composer
https://www.hennesseybrownmusic.com/classical-musicians/des-oliver-composer
Kate Fox @katefoxwriter75.bsky.social Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
Dr. Psychdrus @drpsychdrus.bsky.social Lawyer & Author 🐬
On Democracy, a hardliner advocate; on Technology, a radical humanist; on Arts, a joyful avant-garde surfer. Keeping my Twitter foxhole to smash slugs in the battlefield of Community Notes.
✍🏻 https://oldpaperstocks.blogspot.com
@bathflashaward.bsky.social @bathflashaward.bsky.social 3 times a year Flash Fiction Award. £1460 prize fund. Anthology. Founded in 2015. 32nd Award results out now. 33rd Award open. Judge Writer and writing tutor . Alison Woodhouse Closes June 7th 2026