Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Manchester-born, Irish citizen, living in Cromer. I publish other people’s books at Salt. Newsletter: chrisemery.me
Vicky MacKenzie @vickymackenzie.bsky.social Writer, cat lady, wrote a novel about medieval mystics, forthcoming novel about John Ruskin. Aspiring anchoress. https://victoriamackenzie.net/
Substack: https://victoriamackenzie.substack.com/
John Self @john-self.bsky.social Book jockey
Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing @bloomsburylit.bsky.social Book news from the Bloomsbury Literary Studies & Creative Writing team in London and New York. 📚 Home of the Object Lessons series.
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Oxford Poetry Library @oxpoetrylibrary.bsky.social Community-powered poetry in Oxford. Workshops, events, open mics and a lending library of poetry open on Saturdays from 12pm-3pm. Entirely volunteer-run. Currently based at The Community Works, 21 Park End St, OX1 1HU
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Rekha Valliappan @silicasun.bsky.social Author - Poet
Award-winning Pushcart & Best of Net nom. Writer & Poet- Nature Nomad, Science Scarab, Art Aesthete -Stories, Poems, CNF, Flash Fiction, Haiku, Published in Over 100+ Literary & Genre Journals & Anthologies
https://www.silicasun.wordpress.com
Sue Finch (she/her) @suefinch.bsky.social Poet. Coach. #ElasticBandPhotos. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. ‘Magnifying Glass’ and ‘Welcome to the Museum of a Life’ published by Black Eyes Publishing UK.
https://suefinch.co.uk/
Michael Conley @mconley.bsky.social Peggy Poole Winner 2022 |
Prose: Flare and Falter, Splice |
Poetry: These Are Not My Dreams, Nine Pens
https://mickconley.substack.com/
NationCymru @nation.cymru News • Politics • Culture • Sports 🏴 By the people of Wales, for the people of Wales http://Nation.Cymru
Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social This is a bot that posts a quote by Ursula K. Le Guin every 2 hours. Was ursulabot on twitter
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Profile Books @profilebooks.bsky.social Independent publisher of inventive books, fearless writing and powerful voices. Our authors include Mary Beard, Shoshana Zuboff and Francis Fukuyama.
douwe @dwskkm.bsky.social ‘het leven is geen bessenvla'
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Alia Papageorgiou @eurocentrique.bsky.social Artistic Director writefest.be / Cyber MSc, newspapers , EU diplomacy / Board journalismfund.eu, displaced Melburnian ☕️ #amwriting first book ‘Ducks on the roof’ (c) out in 2025 🦆
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Paddy Brennan @paddy-brennan.bsky.social PhD in food consumption and self-starvation in 20th-21st century Irish fiction at the University of Liverpool's Institute of Irish Studies 🥔
Roger Hare @hareontherun.bsky.social Poetry scribbler, cricket lover, art appreciator living in the Midlands. (Not doing the Bluesky age verification protocols so please initiate any desired direct contact via open posting/tagging ( or by insta messaging) not via chat, thanks 😊)
Jen Howard @jen-howard.bsky.social 
Guen @guendmtaietti.bsky.social Animal lover🐕, runner🏃🏻♀️, PhD in Classics from UniLiverpool, 💙Alexander the Great & Macedon❤️ 🇬🇷, visually impaired🙈
Miranda L. Barnes @mirandab-oa.bsky.social Research Associate, Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities & Social Sciences (MORPHSS), Uni. of Cambridge (Cambridge Digital Humanities & Cambridge University Library). Views my own.
[Find my poetry account at @luminousjune.bsky.social]
Marina Sofia @marinasofia.bsky.social Global nomad, translator (RO and DE to EN), writer and publisher, addicted to world literature. Blog at https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com, publish at https://corylusbooks.com
Angela Hirons @foxglove1977.bsky.social Liverpool-based DE-ENG literary translator & copy editor. Currently translating Simone Scharbert's 'Rosa in Grau' for Seagull Books. Art and photography. Jeg lærer norsk. www.angelahirons.com
Dr M. I. Matthews-Schlinzig @whatisaletter.bsky.social poet, human, dog lover
academic & literary editing/translation, and writing (ENG/GER)
MSt & DPhil (University of Oxford)
Instagram: schicketanz_books
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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social Professor of Art History, Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center. I look at things and then write about them.
Author of Van Gogh and the End of Nature, from Yale University Press: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300274363/van-g
Mary Earnshaw @maryearnshaw.bsky.social Writer. Worrier. Tree whisperer.
Lives on England's northwest coast.
Has spent a lot of time in Zambia and Eswatini with her live-in archaeologist. Can cook for dozens over an open fire if bribed with wine. But would rather write poetry.
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
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/
Quakers in Britain @quaker.org.uk Faith community grounded in stillness. We believe in working together to create a more just, equal and peaceful world.
Quakers in Britain, Friends House, NW1 2BJ.
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@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian/author PL Henderson to celebrate/promote women in the arts.
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Philip Hoare @philiphoare.bsky.social www.philiphoare.co.uk
contact:
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Robert Bloomfield @lunebread.bsky.social Poetry lurker
David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social the sea is completely written for me
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Freud Museum London @freudmuseumlondon.bsky.social The final home of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, and his daughter Anna Freud
Lee Krasner @leekrasner.bsky.social Fan account of Lee Krasner, an American abstract expressionist painter.
1908-1984
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The Artel Press @artelpress.bsky.social Independent book publisher since 2013. Experimental writing from new authors and artists #poetry | Liverpool, UK
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Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival @poetryinaldeburgh.bsky.social A poetry festival by the sea under the big skies of East Anglia. Thurs 5th to Sunday 8th November 2026. ☀️📚🩵
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James K. Tauber @jtauber.com Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
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Text and Language Lab @textandlanguagelab.bsky.social Official account of the Text and Language Lab led by @michamahlberg.bsky.social, part of @dhssfau.bsky.social
at @fau.de.
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
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Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation @brinkerhoffpoetry.bsky.social A literary nonprofit bringing you great poetry from across places, eras, and traditions.
https://www.brinkerhoffpoetry.org/
Zain Rishi @zainrishi.bsky.social Brummie Poet 📚🌈
26 / Edinburgh (mostly)
NOON out now with the Emma Press
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Sadler's Wells @sadlerswells.bsky.social We’re here to make and share dance that inspires us all.
📍 Sadler's Wells, Angel
📍 Peacock Theatre, Holborn
Account monitored Mon-Fri, 10-6
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Richard Price @paintedspoken.bsky.social Richard Price, poet (Lucky Day, Small World, Moon for Sale, Late Gifts all from Carcanet) and novelist (The Island, from Salt)
Chris McCabe @mccabio.bsky.social Poet
jamesgrande.bsky.social @jamesgrande.bsky.social Senior Lecturer in 18thC Literature and Culture at King's College London - teaching and writing about Romantics, radicals, dissenters and music - Trustee, Keats-Shelley House
Old English Wordhord @oewordhord.bsky.social Dr Hana Videen (she/her), author of THE WORDHORD: DAILY LIFE IN OLD ENGLISH & THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY. Sharing the Old English Word of the Day since 2013.
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James Randall @randalljamesp.bsky.social between the forest and the city / editor, writer - for adults & children, incl. folktales & non-fiction (26/27) - Hachette: https://shorturl.at/xJBrT, HarperCollins: https://amzn.eu/d/0iEBWa29. PhD, Goldsmiths (2018).
Maya Weeks, Ph.D. @mayaweeks.bsky.social Geographer, poet, early-career cowgirl. Lecturer at Rutgers University & visiting researcher at UC Davis Feminist Research Institute. Views my own. mayaweeks.com
Claraisreading 🌿💙📚📚 @claramay.bsky.social books, book chat, wildflowers, pond plants
Ian Webster @websterij.bsky.social PhDed at Exeter: Modernism and the Making of Macroeconomics. Having spent years doing less interesting stuff. Now time to figure out what to do next.
Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social Presenter, Radio Four’s Front Row and Start the Week. 
The Lonely Crowd @thelonelycrowd.bsky.social Literary journal — thelonelycrowd.org
https://linktr.ee/thelonelycrowd
Ron Davies @rondavies.bsky.social Photographer, landscape, travel and nature. Loves books, reading and poetry. Well known for images of Iron Men Crosby.
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.
New Directions @ndbooks.bsky.social Founded in 1936 by James Laughlin, New Directions proudly publishes great literature from around the world. ndbooks.com
John Latta @lattaj.bsky.social Poet, birder. Used to bloviate at Isola di Rifiuti.
Actuel Moyen Âge @agemoyen.bsky.social Blog de diffusion de la recherche en histoire médiévale.
Compte tenu principalement par Florian Besson.
Retrouvez nos articles sur https://actuelmoyenage.wordpress.com/
Musée de Cluny @museecluny.bsky.social Compte officiel du musée national du Moyen Âge à Paris 🦄
Exposition "Nicolas Flamel, alchimiste de papier" à partir du 13 octobre 📅
Musée des Arts et Métiers @museeartsetmetiers.bsky.social Bienvenue sur le compte officiel du Musée des Arts et Métiers
Musée d'Orsay @museeorsay.bsky.social 
British School at Athens @britschoolathens.bsky.social An Institute for advanced research | Arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences in Greece and its wider lands | Fellowships, courses, lectures and more
Health Citizens Institute @healthcitizens.org From Environment to Health
From Science to Policy-Making
The Lancet @thelancet.com Welcome to The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, published weekly since 1823.
🌐 thelancet.com
Philip Guston @philipguston.bsky.social Fan account of Philip Guston, an American painter, printmaker, muralist and draftsman.
1913-1980
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Ben Luke @benlukeart.bsky.social Freelance art broadcaster and writer.
• Podcast host and contributing editor, The Art Newspaper
The Art Newspaper @theartnewspaper.bsky.social Our experts bring you crucial art stories from around the world.
📍London / New York
The Irish Cultural Centre @irishculturalcentr.bsky.social The home of Irish Arts & Culture in London since 1995 - featuring Ireland’s best live music, film, literature, theatre & art events.
RSF @handle.invalid Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
We fight for #PressFreedom all over the world.
Caroline Smith @csmithpoet.bsky.social Shortlisted for Ted Hughes Award for ‘The Immigration Handbook’(Seren). Refugee caseworker. Lives in Wembley. ‘Bycatch’ published by Nine Arches Press Oct 2025. Hawthornden Fellow. http://www.carolinesmithpoet.com
David Eldredge @citlan.bsky.social Molecular Bio/Chem Zoology-Evolution from @BYU. Teach Gen Chem, O-Chem labs @ slcc.edu & English & Piano Online. (Business Partner of naltic.com)
@citlanx on X & linkedin.com/in/d-eldredge/
Michael Marks Awards @michaelmarksawards.bsky.social The Michael Marks Awards for Poetry Pamphlets celebrate work published in the UK. The 2025/26 Awards are opening for submissions soon.
Our partners are @britishlibrary.bsky.social, Wordsworth Trust, @thetls.bsky.social and The British School at Athens.
Julia @chiaroscuro1897.bsky.social Poet | Writer | Freelance Art Historian
UK https://juliabiggs1.wixsite.com/juliabiggs
Pamphlet available from Salò Press: https://www.salopress.com/store/nasty-objects-julia-biggs/
Raphael @raphaelsanzio.bsky.social Fan account of the artist, Raphael. Him, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, form the trinity of the great masters of the Renaissance.
1483-1520
Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social All-around genius working for peace, beauty, and intelligent thought.
IRL: professor of art history. Occasionally write things about Rubens. Also Dutch art, the Bruegel family, and Elizabethan visual culture.
Reader of many novels. DC & Amsterdam.
Byzantine Mosaics @byzantinemosaics.bsky.social Byzantine mosaics are mosaics produced from the 4th to 15th centuries in and under the influence of the Byzantine Empire.
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harana poetry @haranapoetry.bsky.social The online magazine for poets writing in English as a second or parallel language. Edited by Kostya Tsolakis & Romalyn Ante. Founded 2018.
Norman Nicholson Society @nnicholsonpoet.bsky.social The Society was formed in 2006 to promote, study and discuss the work of the English poet and writer Norman Nicholson who lived in the Cumbrian coastal town of Millom his whole life, 1914 - 1987. Plenty more information at www.normannicholson.org 
BookBlast® Official @bookblast.org Championing world literature since 1997. Book Club @hatchards piccadilly; reviews, interviews, podcasts by publishing insider Georgia DC & friends & special events. Instagram @bookblastofficial www.linktr.ee/bookblast Accept no imitations
Caroline Clark @cclarklewes.bsky.social July 2026: What Lies Ahead and Other Essays, Black Herald Press: https://www.blackheraldpress.com/what-lies-ahead
Own Sweet Time, CB editions (2022)
Sovetica, CB editions (2021)
Saying Yes in Russian, Agenda Editions (2012)
https://carolineclark.carrd.co/
Irish Studies@LivUni @irishinstitute.bsky.social Institute of #irishstudies @liverpooluni.bsky.social: world-leading research & teaching in peace & conflict, women's studies, literature & history.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/irish-studies
Oliver Mantell @olivermantell.bsky.social Cultural audience researcher.
Interested in everything, including poetry.
Director of Evidence & Insight at The Audience Agency; Board member at Grimm & Co and Sheaf Poetry. From Reading, living in Sheffield.
[Header from Tara Bergin’s Savage Tales]
The International Hellenic Prize @ihellenicprize.bsky.social The International Hellenic Prize awards original works in English relating to, or inspired by, ancient or modern Hellenic civilization, culture, history, or literature.
Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Deutschstunden' from CulturBooks and 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
Gita Ralleigh @gitaralleigh.bsky.social Writer/Poet/Lecturer/ex-doc
Kids' novels:
Minou Moonshine / Sam Singh @kidsbloomsbury.bsky.social
Poetry:
Empirical
@thebraag.bsky.social
Siren @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
A Terrible Thing Bad Betty Press
https://linktr.ee/gitaralleigh
Poets for the Planet @poetsfortheplanet.bsky.social A community of kindred poets, performers, artists and creative activists raising their voices to engage with climate emergency. https://poetsfortheplanet.org.uk/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/poets4theplanet
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mreid@bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social poet, gardener, intelligence expert
former Managing Editor at Arc poetry Magazine
former Director at VerseFest
books with Brick, Chaudiere, Anansi, rdc, etc
new book coming from University of Calgary Press
Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social Medievalist. She/Her. All DMs are blocked (Bluesky ID issue)
Alex Jenkins @alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social Poet, writer, (col)lapsed academic (he/him). Work in: @badlilies.bsky.social, @propelmagazine.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal @supriyadhaliwal.bsky.social NWCDTP-funded PhD student at Centre for Place Writing, MMU. Author of The Yak Dilemma, out now with Makina Books.
https://linktr.ee/supriyakaurdhaliwal
Dr Rhonda Mayne @drrmayne.bsky.social Modernism | Woolf | Women's writing
ECR seeking postdoctoral opportunities
BAMS Steering Committee
Reviewer for Feminist Modernist Studies
sites.google.com/view/drrhondamayne
Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social Archive TV Channel. Keeping celluloid alive! Freeview82 Freesat306 Sky324 Virgin445 Freely36. FREE catch-up via Freeview Red Button and http://tptvencore.co.uk
Irish Manuscripts Commission @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social The Irish Manuscripts Commission, founded 1928, preserves primary manuscript sources for Irish history in print and online. Browse our collection, including free digital resources at irishmanuscripts.ie
Keats-Shelley Assoc. @ksaacomm.bsky.social Official account for the Keats-Shelley Association of America. Celebrating the lives & works of Keats, the Shelleys, Byron, & their circles
Gregory @gregorykearns.bsky.social Poet in theory, Neurodiversity in the Workplace trainer, host of The Poems We Made Along the Way, your new best friend.
Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social Reading, writing, & thinking about cosmopolitanism, internationalism, decadence, anti-colonialism, anti-fascism, modernism – & Una Marson, Nancy Cunard, Edith Wharton, & other people & things like that. Leverhulme ECF in English at University of Edinburgh.
Darren Freebury-Jones @freeburian.bsky.social FRHistS. Author. Public speaker. Shakespeare scholar. General Ed: Collected Plays of Robert Greene. Associate Ed: Collected Works of Thomas Kyd. Welsh.
https://darrenfj.wordpress.com/2017/11/24/darren-freebury-jones-publications/
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
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
Silver Press @silver-press.bsky.social A feminist press feat. Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde, & Leonora Carrington. Announcing: Spiral House! An imprint for art, poetry & ways of knowing 💫 silverpress.org
Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/silverpress/silver-press-mailing-list
English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/englishpen