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. ☀️📚🩵
Website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/
Facebook: poetryinaldeburgh.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/poetryinaldeburgh/
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.
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Hosted by @davidjbauman.bsky.social
Acropolis Journal @acropolisjournal.bsky.social Acropolis Journal | Home for temples, ruins, darkness & myth | Online Poetry & Art Journal | Projects | EIC Louise Mather | SUBS OPEN
https://acropolisjournaluk.wixsite.com/acropolisjournal
Tamar Yoseloff @tamaryoseloff.bsky.social Poet, lecturer, festival curator.
Suffolk / London
John Darwin @johndarwinpoet.bsky.social Published poet, winner of best spoken word show Greater Manchester Fringe 2021. Turkophile, atheist and aesthete. Host of Crooked Posts, Prestwich.
MUFCUM
Stu @clough.fyi Marketer. Dad. Poet. Data enthusiast. Footie fan. No particular order, combinations possible.
MA Poetry alum. | Manchester Writing School
Currently pitching debut collection, The Premiad
Jude @jude-brucemoll.bsky.social Family, Poetry. Gardening, Nature, Politics, Springsteen fan, Female
Huw Gwynn-Jones @huwgwynn.bsky.social Poet, Dreamer, Welshman living in Orkney. Retired entrepreneur.
Simon Williams @greatbigbadger.bsky.social Retired journalist. Practicing poet
Daniel Hinds @danielghinds.bsky.social Poetry collection New Famous Phrases @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social, UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award, Ilkley New Northern Poet, New Writing North North East Poet, BBC New Creative
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/daniel-hinds-new-famous-phrases
Reconnecting Rainbows Press @reconnectingrainbo.ws 🌈 Amplifying LGBTQIA+ voices through authentic storytelling.
📚 Poetry. History. Fiction. Children’s books. Emerging talent.
💡 Building community, connection, resistance and resilience.
www.reconnectingrainbows.co.uk
www.bookstodon.com/@reconnectpress
Sharon Arthur @sarthurwriter.bsky.social I am a music lyricist and a poet. I only write the lyrics for songs not the music. I wrote a poetry book: "The Wind Softly Murmurs: Poems of Family Love and Loss." It is available on Amazon. My website link is: sharonarthurwriter.com
Ali Jones @aliskjones.bsky.social Teacher, photographer, poet. I write a nature haiku every day as an act of creativity. All photos taken on walks around where I live. Interested in fairytales, folklore, botany, ecology, liminal places, and the more than human. Two published pamphlets.
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.
https://festivalforpoetry.com
Adele Ward @adeleward.bsky.social Writer and book person
Anne Caldwell @caldwell10.bsky.social Poet, writer, editor, lecturer, RLF Advisory Fellow. Latest book - Neither Here Nor There - SurVision. 5 poetry collections and interests in nature, moss, birds, prose poetry and education annecaldwell.net
Tricia Dearborn @triciadearborn.bsky.social Poet. Writer. Editor | New collection Goatscape out with Cordite Books in 2027! | Editor at http://triciadearborneditor.com
The Heretic Review @thehereticreview.bsky.social 🖤Small publication devoted to all things heretical, blasphemous, dark, and countercultural🖤
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https://www.facebook.com/hereticreview
Carol Peace @carolpeace.bsky.social Hackney and Hay-on-Wye based sculptor, drawer, painter and poet.
https://beacons.ai/carolpeace
sibabili@allpoetry.com @sibabili.bsky.social Lesser known Polka Splot- virtually extinct. Native to planet Earth. Dabbles in graphic design, poetry, & replenishing silver lining. Loves family, friends, music, poetry, art, philosophy, laughter & CATS! Allergic to some humans. You can call me Siba.
Dithering Chaps - submissions open @ditheringchaps.bsky.social I'm David Herring, Lead Editor of indie poetry press, Dithering Chaps, based in Dorset, UK. We publish thematically-linked sequences of poems: works that riff on a core conceit, event or narrative voice. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
Bernard Pearson @bernp.bsky.social Novelist: books 'Where the Willows End, In Red Blood' 'One of Our Own,' Poetry: 200 poems published worldwide. old friend's description of him, 'I've known this idiot most of my life.'
Jacqueline Doyle @jacqdoyle.bsky.social Author of The Lunatics' Ball (Mad Creek Books, forthcoming), American Literature 101: Stories (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming), and The Missing Girl (Black Lawrence Press). Wigleaf Top 50. 9 Notables, Best American Essays, Editor, CRAFT Lit Journal.
Colin Dardis @purelypoetry.bsky.social poet / editor / sound artist / creative human thing. Edits Poem Alone blog. Publisher at Rancid Idols Productions. Co-runs Purely Poetry open mic night in Belfast. Latest collection 'with the lakes' available from above/ground press.
Robert Eric Shoemaker @robeshoe.bsky.social Author of Ca’Venezia and other books
https://linktr.ee/reshoemaker
Jodie Young, verray jangleresse @jangleresse.bsky.social Poet (reading more than writing atm) in Naarm | Melbourne, Australia
Poetry, books, art, history.
Resisting the urge to despair.
Dr Rachel Rankin @rakelrank.bsky.social Scottish poet | NOR-ENG Translator | Work in The Poetry Review / Modern Poetry in Translation / Magma / Gutter / The Scotsman | Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award 2019 | Grierson Verse Prize 2023 / Wigtown Poetry Prize Runner-Up 2023
MJ Saucer.bsky.social @mjseyesopened.bsky.social Poet and visual artist. Political junkie. Disabled. Fibro warrior. MFA, UARK. Managing Editor, Ice Floe Press. "Wiregrass and Other Poems" (Ethel, chapbook, 2022). Contact: icefloeprojects@gmail.com
https://ko-fi.com/mjsaucer- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
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.
Jakob Ziguras @noonessleep.bsky.social Poet, Translator, & Occasional Philosopher | Books: Venetian Mirrors 2024; The Sepia Carousel 2017; Chains of Snow 2013.
Poetry: https://pittstreetpoetry.com/poet/jakob-ziguras/.
Philosophy: https://independent.academia.edu/JakobZiguras. 
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Dominic Fisher Poetry @domfishpoet.bsky.social Poet, one-time English language teacher, lives near his Bristol allotment. Two collections https://dominicfisherpoetry.co.uk/
John Kenny @johnkenny13.bsky.social Poetry: New Irish Writing, Live Encounters, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, The Madrid Review, Flare, The High Window, Poem Alone, Poems for Protest, Smashing Times, StepAway Magazine.
Fiction: The Galway Review, Revival, Emerald Eye, Albedo One.
Amanda Earl @amandaearl.bsky.social she/her: sharing Ottawa -area sugar crone (tinyurl.com/ottawamandy) literary, spoken word, storytelling & nonfiction events daily ish. Out now!: Beast Body Epic, Autumn 2023. https://linktr.ee/amandaearl.
Judi Sutherland @judisutherland.bsky.social Dual British/Irish citizen in Ireland. #FBPE Rejoiner. Cat lady. Lymphoma survivor. PhD Biochemist. Watercolour artist. Trans ally 🏳️⚧️ Former pharma manager. Querying not one but two novels! www.judisutherland.com for more stuff.
Carmella de Keyser @carmellapoetry.bsky.social Prizewinning poet
Harlow Stanza founder
Judge Harlow Open🏆
5 books published/forthcoming|Hedgehog Press|Alien Buddha Press|Parlyaree Press|Seventh Quarry
Widely published inc
by Macmillan
Beatles|90s nostalgia
https://www.carmella-de-keyser.com/about
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/
Eoin Flannery @eoinflannery.bsky.social Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social
Poems @eatthestorms.com @thebelfastreview.bsky.social @theargylelitmag.bsky.social @hogriverpress.bsky.social @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
@paulspoems.bsky.social @paulspoems.bsky.social 
Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social Poet, weaver, conservationist. Living a creative wild life in Cornwall
Rough Diamond Poetry @rough-diamond1.bsky.social Rough Diamond is an online and in print poetry journal. roughdiamondpoems@gmail.com
EIC - Charlotte Cosgrove
http://ko-fi.com/roughdiamond open for subs
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
Scottish Poetry Library @byleaveswelive.bsky.social The Scottish Poetry Library is Scotland's number one poetry resource both online and in bricks and mortar. We're at 5 Crichton's Close, Edinburgh and we're open to the public Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm. Our online HQ is www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
Scott Coe @scottacoe.bsky.social Poet & Artist. Former Stamford Poet Laureate.
Spalding Poetry Slam wordsmith award winner 2024.
scottcoe.co.uk
#PoetsOnBlueSky #poetry #spokenword
Mostly found in #Stamford & #Peterborough
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. New Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.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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Evalyn Lee @evalynlee.bsky.social Poet, Alumna of @CBSNews @60Minutes @BBCWorld @FaberAcademy. Shortlisted by @bridportprize.bsky.social Love @britishlibrary & @VanguardRead #amwriting #poetry #visual #journal #travellingwithdevices 🧶 #crochet #StitchingTogether for the #CommonGood
Poems Not Bombs @poemsnotbombs.bsky.social Monthly poetry open mic in #Walthamstow & #Soho
3rd Thu, 1.30pm Spice Of Life, Soho
Last Thu, 7pm, Walthamstow Trades Hall https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/forest-poets-events-2261639
Hosted by @paulmcgrane.bsky.social ForestPoets.bsky.social
Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io (they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
Anne Bailey @anne-bailey.bsky.social Poet - ‘What the House Taught Us’ Emma Press 2021. Member of ‘Café Writers’ Committee organising monthly poetry events live in Norwich and on Zoom.
Vicki Kaye @vickikaye.bsky.social writer and visual artist. Poetry pamphlet ‘Fractured Light’ pub. by Sampson Low Press 2002.
The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social.
poetrysociety.org.uk
linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
Alice Brockway @alicebrockway.bsky.social Creative type and mental health researcher. Founder of Playing Sane. Lived Experience work with NSPA, Rethink Mental Illness, & GMMH. Part way through a never ending PhD. Generally interested.
Alex Chand @alexchand.bsky.social MFA @ Mississippi / MA @ Leeds / poet and playwright / https://alexchand.com / recent poems in The Cincinnati Review and The Offing
Aaron Wright @aaronwright2.bsky.social Poet, spoken word, music shenaniganner, managed by Erasmus Croc, the world’s first Poetry Crocodile .
Steve Downes @writerstevedownes.bsky.social Author of Fyre & Stone crime/historical fiction series.
Books on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waterstones, Apple Books & Google Play
Faversham Literary Festival @favlit.org Book talks. In a brewery!
10-days of author talks and book events taking place annually in a Kentish medieval market town
20 Feb – 1 Mar 2026
Sign up for the festival newsletter to hear news about what's coming!
Deborah Harvey Poetry 🪶 @deborahharvey.bsky.social Poet. Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', from Indigo Dreams Publishing. Neurodishevelled. She/her
https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
Poet, writer, artist. @helenfinney.bsky.social Reader, writer, cat lover, great cook, diver, traveller.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/21667081.Helen_Finney
Shaun Belcher @trailerstar.bsky.social Writer / Songwriter / Artist and Gooner.
ireneintheworld @ireneintheworld.bsky.social Irene Cunningham. Possible novelist if poetry didn't keep on the kidnapping thing. Poems in many mags and anthologies, a couple of chapbooks Hedgehog Press and Dreich, a few created on Amazon.
The Prose Poem @theprosepoem.bsky.social An online journal of prose poetry.
Ekphrastic poetry call open until 15 December.
https://theprosepoem.com/
River and Celia in Underland @riverandcelia.bsky.social
Living our queer, twisted truth. Stories, art, love, and cantankerous cats.
https://river-and-celia-in-underland-shop.fourthwall.com/
https://riverandceliainunderland.com/
https://www.tiktok.com/@riverandceliainunderland
Mus'd @mus-d.bsky.social Rather be woke than weird.
Creative Community.
Teachers.
Queer and whatevs. Your body, your biz. Science is real. Oh and Fuck Trump et al. 🏳️🌈
https://mus-d.com
www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBMVXC
Kate Wise @katewise.bsky.social possible poet.
Lucky enough to be published by
@rialtopoetry.bsky.social @theemmapress.bsky.social @thelondonmagazine.bsky.social @finishedpoetry.bsky.social etc
Kathryn O’Driscoll (she/her) @poetryod.bsky.social 2021 UK Poetry Slam Champion 🏆
Poet • Editor • Mentor • Event Organiser
House of O’Driscoll ✨✌️
🏳️🌈♿️🥄☘️🇮🇪⚔️📝🇬🇧🍉
JinnynotJenny @jinnyf.bsky.social Poet, ex-violinist, retired psychotherapist, living in Glastonbury UK. Chemotherapy survivor and cat person. LGBTQ+ Ally.
Charlotte Cosgrove @charlottecosgrove.bsky.social Poet / Lecturer / Socialist / Wellbeing / Editor of Rough Diamond poetry journal
love writing, reading, cats, learning, and sitting down.
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
Vijay Joshi @vjwords.bsky.social Poet...Poems are a very constructive channel for inner self, to link it with the world out there...
#poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #poetry #poem
Tom Blake @tomblake17.bsky.social Some atoms in the shape of an elongated hominid. Poems. Writing reviews for KLOF mag. Buy my book here https://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/%C6%A8-tom-blake
Fall in Green @fallingreen.bsky.social An act of poetry and music, part folk, part prog-rock, part classical lieder. Find our music and video releases on our YouTube Channel. Links: https://linktr.ee/fallingreen
Hannah Linden @hannahl1n.bsky.social Poet Devon, UK
1st Cafe Writers Poetry Competition 2021, 2nd Leeds Peace Poetry Prize 2024, H Comm. Wales Poetry Award 2021. Shortlisted Best Poetry Pamphlet Saboteur Awards 2023 https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/the-beautiful-open-sky.html 
Minyan Magazine @minyanmag.bsky.social Minyan Magazine’s mission is to publish the finest poetry and flash fiction by Jewish writers and their allies in quarterly online issues. The magazine's name, Minyan, refers to a group of ten adults needed for a service.
Kiana Azizian Poetry @kianaazizian.bsky.social author of ‘all hearts break’ & ‘soft’ 💕
#poetry #quotes #books
John Snelling @john1811.bsky.social Poet. Keats House poetry ambassador. Wide range of interests. On the left politically. A kind of hermeticist philosophically.
Peggy A. Wheeler @pawheeler.bsky.social Writer of the fantastical, reader, world traveler, damned good cook, lover of good food and good wine, Bettie Page fan. Penning my 6th novel. Experiencing a massive, fun blast with this one!
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
Leona Medlin @leonamedlin.bsky.social I'm working on a non-fiction proposal for my nearly-finished Japan book. Various poems and stories are out on submission to magazines, as is 'Peace Bell', an essay. Can you guess what 'Peace Bell' is about?
Ruth Middleton @rubelles.bsky.social Yorkshire woman, LGBTQ + writer (poetry, life writing) and creative group facilitator.
Lived experience expert interested in disability, mental health, traumatic brain injury and life changing injury. Tennis fan, campaigner, reader and traveller.
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
John Berkeley Grout 🏳️🌈🔶 @jrberkeley.bsky.social John (he/him) aka. John Berkeley; Leovinas. UK-based writer of SFF, player of RPGs, Classics/archaeology/ancient history PhD, process/telecoms specialist.
The sort of gay lefty Liberal your mother warned you about. Views my own, etc. (no TERFs or AI, ta)
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 🦤
Derek Adams @derekadamsphoto.bsky.social Photographer (Book Covers & Portraits), Poet and poetry writing workshop facilitator. Likes surrealism, cinema, beer. Can get somewhat obsessive about Man Ray or Lee Miller!
derek-adams.co.uk
Msiagirl @msiagirl.bsky.social Poet, book & art lover, photographer, aromatherapist, traveller. (She/her) UK Bathonian Malaysian. I like books. I like trees. I like deserts. I'm on IG/Threads. Flarestack Poet Pey Oh. MPhil USW. Photographer. Aromatherapist. I make potions.
Matthew Stewart @roguestrands.bsky.social Weaving ways through poetry. Second full collection, ‘Whatever You Do, Just Don’t’, a Poetry Society Book of the Year 2023, available from HappenStance Press.- C Caroline Maldonado @carolinemaldonado.bsky.social Writes and translates poetry, mainly from Italian.
Helen Dewbery @helendewbery.bsky.social Poetry, Poetry Film, photography www.poetryfilmlive.com
Sharon Larkin @sharlark.bsky.social Writer, poet, photographer, editor, workshop leader, Stanza Rep, occasional anthology publisher, linguist. Loves Wales, nature/countryside and above all God.
Poetry books:
Interned at the Food Factory, Indigo Dreams, 2019
Dualities, Hedgehog Press, 2020
Nicholas Korn | The Wild Sonnets @wildsonnets.bsky.social For The Wild Sonnets books & downloads: www.wildsonnets.com
For The Wild Sonnets YouTube Channel (150+ videos): https://www.youtube.com/@wildsonnets
Hedgehog Poetry Press @hedgehogpress.co.uk Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh!
www.hedgehogpress.co.uk
Julia Webb @julwe1.bsky.social Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'Grey Time' (Nine Arches press, 2025).
https://juliawebb.org/
https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/
https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
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