Martina Devlin @martinadevlinbooks.bsky.social Book lover, novelist, reader, newspaper columnist, occasional lecturer in literature, Irish www.martinadevlin.ie
International Yeats Society @intyeatssociety.bsky.social The International Yeats Society unites scholars, students, and readers of W.B. Yeats from around the world. Become a member today!
https://internationalyeatssociety.org/
Eisteddfod @eisteddfod.cymru Gŵyl gelfyddydol deithiol fwyaf Ewrop sy’n dathlu iaith a diwylliant Cymru 🏴🎪☀️ #steddfod2025 Wrecsam | #steddfod2026 Y Garreg Las
Line Stockford @linecaro.bsky.social Turkish poetry translator
Poet, writer
Cymraes she/they
Caroline Stockford
https://palewellpress.co.uk/bookstore/human-rights/wtwt/
Poetry translations: https://estoniacordfrock.wordpress.com/
Tadhg Breathnach @tadhgwp.bsky.social Spúnógach 🪓🪵 & Ceoilteach 🎻💫
#westcork 🌳🌊🪕
Emma Weird Wiltshire @weird-wiltshire.bsky.social 🌲🧚👻 Writer of strange & unusual tales. Ghosts, folklore & history from Wiltshire and beyond. Earth & nature lover. 👻🧚🌲 ☕ www.weird-wiltshire.co.uk
Jenny Mitchell @jennymitchellgo.bsky.social Winner of the Gregory O'Donohue Prize, the Poetry Book Awards etc. 3 poetry collections - 'Map of a Plantation' on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan Uni. Widely published. Poetry co-editor for the Morning Star.
Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social Poetry that re-enchants the ordinary, that knows what the rational world has explained away. EIC @leepottspoet.bsky.social. stonecirclereview.com
@poemtoday.bsky.social @poemtoday.bsky.social 
The Bamboo Hut @bamboohut.bsky.social Micropoetry writer in its various forms. Editor of The Bamboo Hut and Take 5ive poetry journals. Also a ukulele, NAF, dulcimer and autoharp player.
tinywords.com @tinywords.com Publishing haiku and micropoetry since 2000. Visit us at tinywords.com to learn more.
Denise O'Hagan @deniseohagan.bsky.social Poet/editor • Monica Taylor Poetry Prize • NSW Poetry Prize • Dalkey Poetry Prize • Anamnesis (Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist & Rubery Book Award shortlist) • Currently Writer-in-Residence at Don Bank Museum • denise-ohagan.com
Tanja @joypops.bsky.social Where there's a princess, there'll be a story. — Jingzhi Zou ✨️
Bad Lilies @badlilies.bsky.social A digital poetry journal, edited by @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Enjoy our blooms! badlilies.uk
mark r meyer / 3dotstudio @markrmeyer.bsky.social artist, photographer, published short-form poetry writer , ex-scientist, quasi-guitarist, meta-misanthrope
仕方がない❗ "...and I guess that I just don't know..." - Lou Reed
Laughing Monkey @laughingmonkey0.bsky.social aka Paul Engel - published in: Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Heron's Nest , Red Moon Anthology, Failed Haiku, chapbook "The Dance of The Ému" Bainbridge Island Press - Namu Amida Butsu
AsurasHaiku @asurashaiku.bsky.social High school English teacher interested in reading, writing, and translating haiku.
Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social Composer
Clean Air Advocate
#Covidisairborne #FBCV
Vote Green Party 💚
#Feminist
Emily Tee @emteepoetry.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor/judge with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Lives in the UK.
Dabbles in Flash Fiction, speculative genres. Writing a novel. Mini poetry pamphlet due late 2026.
One of the hosts of PromptCombo
Andrew Burford @burfoa.bsky.social I have always been fascinated by the power of words and the ability of gifted writers to ignite the imagination, fuel the intellect and feed the soul. Reading is the supreme indulgence and perhaps connects us most intimately with what it is to be human.
Does It Have Pockets @doesithavepockets.bsky.social Unseamly Literature. https://www.doesithavepockets.com/
Posts by Cami(lle) Griep, EIC
Ira Lightman @iralightman.bsky.social https://substack.com/@iralightman1?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1n0v50
Byron Wilson @olddelusion.bsky.social Here for the haiku
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
@nightjrrs.bsky.social @nightjrrs.bsky.social Music. Noise. Words.
There are some records and some books: https://andyhopkinspoet.wordpress.com/books/. On Bandcamp.
Dilek Ozturk @dilekozturk.bsky.social Istanbul Technical University/Postdoctoral Research Fellow at School of English, Trinity College Dublin.
Contemporary Irish Drama, theories of space and place ❤️
Údarás na Gaeltachta @udarasnag.bsky.social Cruthú Fostaíochta, Forbairt Fiontair, Cothú Pobail & Teanga Job creation, Enterprise & Community Development. Irish language maintenance in the Gaeltacht https://t.co/P92VD5eR7Z
Leeds Lit Fest @leedslitfest.bsky.social 6 - 14 June 2026. Returning for its eighth year, the award-winning festival of words aims to bring together, and help develop, the city’s literary scene, with writers, poets and performers from Leeds, Yorkshire and beyond!
#LLF26. www.leedslitfest.co.uk
Gerard Beirne @gerardbeirne.bsky.social Author of 8 books of fiction & poetry. Recent:The Thickness of Ice (novel, Baraka Books, 2024);The Death Poems (Salt, 2023).Winner of Rubery Award for Fiction. Shortlisted Danuta Gleed Award, Bord Gais Irish Book Awards, & Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.
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/
Hodges Figgis Dublin @hodgesfiggis.bsky.social Ireland's oldest bookstore, established 1768.
Follow us here to keep up with the day to day going-ons within the shop, our newest store features, as well as projects and news of the greater book community.
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.
Sarah Warden @sarahwarden.bsky.social Poet. #poetsonbluesky #NoKings
http://sarahwarden.substack.com
Tamar Yoseloff @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social Poet, lecturer, festival curator.
Suffolk / London
@eamo1.bsky.social @eamo1.bsky.social 
Imogen Reid @imogenreid.bsky.social PhD Chelsea College of Arts. Work in: Partisan Hotel, gorse journal, Mercurius Magazine, Sublunary Editions, 3AM Magazine, Essence Press, Vanguard Readings. Chapbooks with Gordian Projects & Nightjar Press, book with Rossi Contemporary
KjM @kevinjmackey.bsky.social Transplanted Irishman in love with the music of language - Northeast, US
Dublin Review of Books @dubreviewofbooks.bsky.social Ireland's premier review of intellectual inquiry for two decades. Published quarterly (www.drb.ie), entire archive since 2007 available. Everything on totally free access but donations of course welcome to keep us going.
Yale University Press @yalepress.bsky.social Books et Veritas. Bringing truth to light for more than one hundred years.
Faber Books @faberbooks.bsky.social Publishing independently since 1929.
linktr.ee/faberbooks
Lesley Wheeler @lesleymwheeler.bsky.social Poetry Ed of Shenandoah. Author of Mycocosmic, Poetry’s Possible Worlds, Unbecoming, The State She’s In, & Radioland—poetry, fantasy fiction, CNF, scholarship. She/they. linktr.ee/lesleymwheeler
SL Huang [THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS is out!]🎇🦑🌌] @slhuang.com THE LANGUAGE OF LIARS, April 2026. "Hugo award winner Huang stuns in this philosophical sci-fi exploration of linguistics and lost civilizations" - PW (⭐) "Fast paced and sharp" - LJ (⭐)
Not here very much. Mailing list: slhuang.com
Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social 🌱 Fighting for a fairer, greener and healthier planet for all!
🌍 Climate and Sustainability Fellow
🩺 Roaming Anaesthesiology Trainee
Christa Fairbrother @christafairbrother.bsky.social Gulfport, FL poet laureate
I write poems about bodies - ours, animals, water, our collective nature
Here to connect with poets & poetry lovers
Author of Water Yoga (Singing Dragon 2022).
Lover of tea & avocados 🥑
https://christafairbrotherwrites.com/
Dr Shauna Gilligan @shaunagilligan.bsky.social Writer, Educator, Feminist, full of heart, cats, literacy for all, creativity always, Irish PEN.
Ember Babiak (they/them) @wendybabiak.bsky.social Poet (CONSPIRACY OF LEAVES, Plain View Press), butterfly-hummingbird gardener, mama to two adult humans, one tiny dog, and a tinier parrot. Two-spirit. AuDHD. Spoonie. Married. (No DMs). Wondering human.
emberbabiak.com
Seán Street @seanstreet.bsky.social ‘I love hushed air…’ Seamus Heaney
@eskimodecinq.bsky.social @eskimodecinq.bsky.social Mais où sont les neiges d’antan?
Talis Kimberley🇪🇺 @taliskimberley.bsky.social Songwriter/Performer/Wordsmith. Doggerel, Limericks. She/her. Folklore, yarncraft, pagan. Antifa, trans rights, organ doner, European. Made of stories. No AI. www.talis.net & YouTube. Will sing for supper & £. Re-enchantment is resistance.
Susan Anderson @sunderlassie.bsky.social #resist #blue 80 years old and been part of every US revolution since the end of WWII. The message is always the same: Live as equals and love one another as equals.
Gavin Wade @gavinwade.bsky.social artist-curator www.eastsideprojects.org
Songs https://newrealityrecords.bandcamp.com/artists
Show: L is for Landscape https://divisionoflabour.co.uk/gavin-wade-l-type
Book: (555 Verses) https://www.setmargins.press/books/is-this-the-way-the-universe-works/
Bryan Andrews @bryanandrewsmusic.bsky.social Country Artist 🎤
Máiréad Enright @maireadenright.bsky.social Irish academic (@lawatloughborough.bsky.social) living in Birmingham. Working on women, law, religion (Catholicism mostly) and reproduction broadly understood. Often legal history, sometimes just law.
Stephen O'Neill @oneillsb.bsky.social Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955 (Liverpool University Press, April 2026)
Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social Illustrator, performer, walker of the hills at dusk, lunatic. I get paper dirty professionally. As it is said in Hookland, Re-enchantment is resistance.
Pro EU, anti fascist. https://thomassbrown.com/ Store here https://thomas-brown-1.sumupstore.com/
Law of Fairness @lawoffairness.bsky.social Could life be literally fair for everyone? Learn more about the global research project evaluating if conscious experience obeys a law-like closure condition. DMs open for questions and formal discussion. https://linktr.ee/LawOfFairness
Sewzinski @sewzinski.bsky.social Art, illustration, pattern design, folklore, flowers, and something yet to be revealed. This is where I thrash. NeverAI She/her
https://linktr.ee/sewzinski
Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social The perfect mix of Saturday night and the rest of your life
He/Him
https://www.instagram.com/tpgeats
Morgan L Ventura (they/she) @morganvl.bsky.social Writer of odd things | In Al Jazeera, Poetry Ireland Review, Strange Horizons, Banshee, F&SF, Best Canadian Essays 21' | Codex | MA Seamus Heaney Centre, QUB, PhD UChi | They/She 🏳️🌈 Sicilian-Irish-Egyptian
Arts Council of NI 2025
David Stifter 🍵📄🦊 @davidstifter.bsky.social Ollamh Sinsearach le Léann Ceilteach, BARE / Senior Professor in Celtic Studies, MRIA
Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 🇮🇪
ᚑᚌ(ᚆ)ᚐᚋ OG(H)AM, DiAgnostic, ⁊rl.
⚫️⚪️
https://www.dias.ie/
Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social Professor (Emeritus) University of Kent. Also Prof at University of Warwick.
Have taught & written about political conflict & peacebuilding for last 30 years. Still learning. Living in Peak District England but FROM Belfast in NI.
Politics nerd
Matt Jakubowski (he/him) @mattjakubowski.bsky.social Philly writer. Debut chapbook “Ghost in the Rain: Stories” from Bottlecap Press.
https://bottlecap.press/products/ghosmj
Stories in Best Microfiction, Identity Theory, DIHP, Claudine, Some Words, Flight, FlashFlood, BULL.
www.mattjakubowski.com
David Toms @daithitoms.bsky.social Writer. Hold Over Fire (2026) coming soon from Veer2.
Pacemaker (Banshee Press, 2022). Northly (Turas Press, 2019). Writing recently in Magma, DRB, aswirl, Banshee, Gorse.
🇮🇪 living in 🇳🇴.
Henry Gould @henryghenrik.bsky.social semi-good, semi-gray poet. Minneapolis, MN. Recent pubs : GREEN RADIUS https://contubernalesbooks.com/green-radius1 ; PARMENIDES IN MINNEAPOLIS https://contubernalesbooks.com/parmenides-in-minneapolis ; chapbks : https://www.lulu.com/spotlight/henry_gould
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
Oscar Nearly @nearlyoscar.bsky.social Writer • Researcher • Artist • currently: PhD @ QMUL on abandoned websites • also Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nearlyoscar/
Preorder my book!: https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/oscar-nearly-fragile-july
Andrew Neilson @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social Little Griefs out now. Director of Campaigns @thehowardleague.bsky.social Co-florist @badlilies.bsky.social andrewneilson.uk
Kimberly A. Horning @everydaydeath12.bsky.social haiku…
MyxlP @myxlp.bsky.social 
Jim Young @oyoguhito.bsky.social ~~ Bard of the Bays ~~
Atrium @atriumpoetry.bsky.social Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social
www.atriumpoetry.com
Seamus Heaney HomePlace @shhomeplace.bsky.social Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy offers an inspiring journey through the life and literature of one of Ireland's greatest literary voices.
https://seamusheaneyhome.com/upcoming-events/
Poetry Ireland / Éigse Éireann @poetryireland.bsky.social Connecting Poetry and People. Proudly funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon and through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland National Lottery Funding. www.poetryireland.ie
Munster Literature Centre https://munsterlit.ie/ @munsterlitcentre.bsky.social Cork based non-profit arts organisation promoting Irish and international literature since 1993.
Website: https://munsterlit.ie/
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/
Christodoulos Makris @cmakris.bsky.social poet & writer
“one of Ireland’s foremost avant-garde poets” - The Irish Times
yesbutisitpoetry.blogspot.com
Farah @farahauthor.bsky.social ✍🏼 poetry including haiku tanka haibun
multi-award-winning
Pushcart Prize nom
Touchstone Award shortlist (haiku) winner (haibun)
UK author: Deerleap Hollow Series🦌🩸📚
🖤horror movies art gardening 🌱
PhD
🇵🇸Freedom for all🇵🇸
https://linktr.ee/farahauthor
waterford rhyme @waterfordrhyme.bsky.social Promoting the waterford: a single verse quatrain, with an ABBA rhyming scheme and 8, 4, 4, 8 syllable count. Described as the Irish haiku, the waterford is a poetic expression of positivity. See waterfordrhyme.com - 2026 competition closed. Stay poetic!
Haiku Canada @haikucanada.bsky.social Haiku Canada is a society of poets of haiku & related forms (tanka, renga, senryu, sequences, haibun, visual haiku)
Haiku Canada est une société composée de poètes et poétesses du haïku, tanka, etc.
https://www.haikucanada.org
phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social poet | phd | umichwriters alum | fiddlehead poetry editor | record collector | author of not even laughter | one-armed bandit | he/him
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.
In Three Poems @inthreepoems.bsky.social Each episode is a conversation in three poems with a different guest poet, examining how poems connect us and how they communicate with each other.
inthreepoems.com
Hosted by @davidjbauman.bsky.social
Macha Press @machapress.bsky.social experimental / formally hybrid / intercultural / recovered poetries
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, the Arts Council of Northern Ireland & Shared Island Civic Society Fund, DFAT machapress.com
Kelli Russell Agodon @kelliagodon.bsky.social (she/her) Poet. Editor. Paddleboarder. Easygoing Capricorn. Next book: Accidental Devotions (Copper Canyon Press, 2026)! Co-host of "Poems You Need" with Melissa Studdard. Faculty at Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University.🏳️🌈Bi/Queer
Kit Fryatt @kitfryatt.bsky.social diminuitivegiant smallsmallth
Books:
forthcoming: All Things That Are Passing, with Ellen Dillon (Spite Press, 2026)
Book of Inversions, with Harry Gilonis,(Veer2, 2025)
Bodyservant (Shearsman, 2018)
Natalie Linh Bolderston @natlinhbolderston.bsky.social Vietnamese-Chinese-British poet. 2020 Eric Gregory Award Recipient, Rebecca Swift Women Poets Prize winner, 2021 Forward Prizes shortlistee. Contact: NatalieLinhBolderston@gmail.com
Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social Landscape with Question (Carcanet Press, 2026).
Before You (2012) & Some Lives (2020) are published by Dedalus Press.
(she/they)
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
Hannah Copley @hannahcopley.bsky.social Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
@freshoutmag.bsky.social @freshoutmag.bsky.social 
Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social Chris Coates, purveyor of niche drivel: https://substack.com/@oddthisday
Helen Ní Shé @muintirshe.bsky.social Bíonn paidreacha beannaithe ag cailleacha mallaithe.
Niamh Mac Cabe @niamhmaccabe.bsky.social Writer, artist, stylite.
Fair to middling spinster.
Magpie apologist.
Good at everything.
Northwestern Ireland.
Also Instagram, and X.
https://niamhmaccabe.wixsite.com/mysite
Sarah Bodman @sarahbodman.bsky.social 📚 Artists' Books projects CFPR | UWE Bristol: Artists' Book Yearbook, Book Arts Newsletter, Bristol Artist's Book Event | MA Fine Art Printmaking Subject Lead. https://linktr.ee/sarahbodman 📚
Paul Murray @renebatt.bsky.social Artist, feeder of two cats,walker of my wife’s dogs, love art, poetry, James Joyce, St.Patrick’s Athletic, Leinster Rugby ( why are my teams so far away from where I live???) I live in Sligo, Nth West of Ireland: where W.B.Yeats is buried.
Shinobazu Pond 俳句 @shinobazupond.bsky.social A Haiku Notebook - written and posted by Tim Chamberlain | Tokyo, Japan. 🌿 https://shinobazupond.blogspot.com/
Big Monster Love @bigmonsterlove.bsky.social Sé/é/he/him. Here for a short time, not a good time. Labhair Gaeilge liom. 
Owen Davies @odavies9.bsky.social Historian and Folklorist. Writes books on witches, magic, ghosts, religion, popular medicine, and folklore.
Ceri Houlbrook @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social Author of 'Winter's Wishfall'. Folklorist. Mum. Northerner. Lecturer in Folklore & History. Eater of cake.
Gerry White @gerdub.bsky.social Love classic literature, sci-fi, cyberpunk, travel, learning languages, hiking, music.