𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑹𝒂𝒅𝒕𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒓 @tarot-secrets.bsky.social 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨, 𝐈'𝐦 𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐞. German-English author, writer, painter & artist. Born in the late '50s.
Books: pressenet.info/rider-waite-tarot.html
I like pets & support writers, artists & tarot lovers. #booksky #tarot #tarotsky #writing #reading #literature
Susan Darlington @susandarlington.bsky.social “I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry” (The Smiths). Books include Lives Outgrown (Dancing Girl Press), Never Wear White (Alien Buddha Press), and Oracle of Snails (upcoming, Hedgehog Press).
Peter Devonald @pdevonald.bsky.social Multi award-winning poet /screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Winner HoHx2, Waltham Forest & FofHCS | Second Shelley Memorial & N2tS 2024 | Nominations BoNx2, Forward Prize & Children's Bafta
Julia Wick @sherlyholmes.bsky.social Journalist in LA, cofounder of @lamaterial.bsky.social
Mainly poetry, politics and local news on here
roger waldron @throwawayreg.bsky.social a throwaway poet
lives in Sheffield
has never been a lover of slip-on-shoes
writes poetry for people who don’t read poetry
his pamphlet “My C&A Years” published by Dreich
my best review
“My husband loves this but he doesn’t know anything about poetry”
Fidel Walsh @dragonslayerma.bsky.social Writing poetry. 3 poetry collections, Living with Love, Time & Out There. Short stories, Thrice Remembered an Anthology.
I'm 1 of the #PromptCombo hosts
Stuart Charlesworth @stuchacha.bsky.social Poet & Nurse & that
Works in Mental Health services
Helps run Cafe Writers
Most recently pub in Poetry Wales & 14 Poems
Knits, reads, runs. Likes Trade Unions
Studied at UEA (nursing & Creative Writing) & Aberystwyth (international Politics)
Non binary
@marymulholland.bsky.social @marymulholland.bsky.social 
@thealchemyspoon.bsky.social @thealchemyspoon.bsky.social 
Rosanna McGlone @rosannamcglone.bsky.social Writer. Journalist. Mother. Amazon no. 1: The Process of Poetry. The Making of a Poem. 100 + features and author interviews in The Guardian, The Independent, The Weekend Australian, SMH and Salon.com.
Modern Poetry in Translation @mptmagazine.bsky.social Ted Hughes' and Daniel Weissbort's international poetry translation magazine. Edited by Janani Ambikapathy.
modernpoetryintranslation.com
Poetry Enthusiast @poetry-enthusiast.bsky.social Poetry & nature enthusiast ~ reader ~ writer ~ traveller ~ photographer
Gillian Mellor @atomic51.bsky.social Writer and Consumer of Poetry. Donald Bagger. Transient Earth Inhabitant. Hello!
Poetry with Linda @poetrywithlinda.bsky.social poetry, nature, writing, reading, art, culture, languages, photography, travelling 🎨🖌️🖼️
Let's also be friends on Substack:@poetrywithlinda
Tracey Rhys @traceyrhys.bsky.social Poet (Parthian, Green Bottle Press), short stories from Honno. Freelance editor & proofreader (The Royal Mint, Seren Books, Poetry Wales) & artist. No weird DMs (I shouldn't have to say it).
'Bathing on the Roof' due out Spring 2025 from Parthian Books.
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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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/
Rhys Owain Williams @rhysowainwilliams.bsky.social Writer of poetry, fiction and other things | That Lone Ship (Parthian Books) | Hay Festival Writer At Work | He/Him | https://linktr.ee/rhysowainwilliams
Victoria Spires @victoriaspires.bsky.social linktr.ee/victoriaspires
BotN, Pushcart & Forward nominated. Shortlisted/commended in various comps: Winner Alpine Fellowship Poetry Prize
Finalist Mslexia Women's Comp
Rube Goldberg Machine out with Shadow and Sax.
Peter J. King @rock-rex.bsky.social Poet, painter, translator (mainly from modern Greek & German). Originally from Boston, Lincolnshire, I now live in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
https://wisdomsbottompress.wordpress.com/peter-j-king
Tracie Renee (she/her) @tracierenee.bsky.social Librarian in sort-of Chicago.
PW book reviewer.
#Amquerying #SCBWI writer/poet.
Winner: #50PreciousWords, Highlights scholarship, ElegantLit, IAmWritingMG.
HM: #PBParty.
WTMP mentee, RisingTalent finalist, BOTN.
https://linktr.ee/tracie.renee
lichtbringer @saintghost.bsky.social Anna | 1991 | Germany | gemini ⋆☀︎. | scorpio ⏾⋆.˚
hexerey & hochgebet ꒰ა♱໒꒱
angel at the abattoir // patron saint of moonstruck girls･ ｡ﾟ☆: *.☽ .* :☆ﾟ. ☾
somewhere between psychotic and iconic ౨ৎ
all words by me
unless stated otherwise ﾟ･* ⋆ ✩ ˚ ｡⋆ ✩
Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social Thinks too much and tries to make sense of the world’s chaos, beauty, and commas; mostly through poetry.
Rachel @vignettes.bsky.social Absurdist, writer, explorer, escape artist.
Writer of poetry, prose
Words in Literary Revelations: Haiku for Soul Mates @epistemiclit.bsky.social, Pure Haiku, From One Line Vol.7, Survivor Zine, #BOTN nominee x 2 2026
British, lives in Italy
Helen Evans @helen-evans.bsky.social Poet, and facilitator of "Poems for the Path Ahead". Published by Mariscat Press, and HappenStance Press. www.helenevans.co.uk
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
Rother Writes @rotherwrites.bsky.social [My words] "are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only" [I could interest them], Sylvia Plath
Patricia M Osborne @pmosbornewriter.bsky.social She/her
MA Graduate in Creative Writing. Liverpudlian born, family saga novelist, short story writer, and poet. Paints pictures with words.
Member of RNA and ALLi
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
Eleanor Livingstone @eleanorl.bsky.social Sometime poet and editor, former poetry festival director, Scottish. Likes walking, talking, beaches, gardens, travel. Two new books out in 2023 from Red Squirrel Press (she/her)
http://www.poetrypf.co.uk/eleanorlivingstonepage.shtml
redsquirrelpress.com
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
Rémi Forte @rmfrt.com Poetic Program, Typographic System
https://www.rmfrt.com/
Rae Howells @raehowells.bsky.social Journalist & poet. Shortlisted Wales Book of the Year 2023.
✍🏻 Poet in residence at Llanelli Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
📚 Books: 🐝 The Language of Bees 🌿This Common Uncommon (Parthian)
📌 Project Manager NUJ Training Wales
🏴 Cymraes
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 🏳️🌈🇵🇸🇺🇦
Sarah Wallis @wordweave.bsky.social Poet Seabird Island @boatsagainstmag
UK: https://rb.gy/tra0bq / US: https://rb.gy/9hlhwt
http://sarahwallis.net/
www.iambapoet.com/wave/23-sarah-wallis
UNESCO Poet in Res, Skara 🇸🇪
2026: Gutter, Stand, Full Mood, Ampersand
Todd Dillard @toddedillard.bsky.social “Ways We Vanish” from Okay Donkey, “Ragnarök at the Father Daughter Dance” from Variant, finalist for the Donald Hall AWP Prize, poems in Threepenny, Southern Review, APR, HAD, etc.
Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
Website: https://lauracooneywriting.wixsite.com/website
Editing: www.kofi.com/lozzawriting
Paul Robert Mullen @paulrobertmullen82.bsky.social Published Poet with @brokenspinearts.bsky.social & @animalheartpress.bsky.social
Writer. Musician. Podcaster. Traveller. Lecturer. Bigfoot conspiracist. Sociable Loner. Friend. 🙌 From near Liverpool 🎶
Sabina Knight 桑稟華 @spoem.bsky.social * #Chinese #Literature: A Very Short Introduction * (Oxford)
& *The Heart of Time* (Harvard)
Translator & Interpreter: En/Fr/繁中/简中/Ru
雙語 @SabinaKnight.bsky.social
Care ethicist @FairbankCenter
#PIPfellow @NCUSCR.bsky.social
Prof Emerita WLT @SmithCollege
Sean Felix @seanfelix75.bsky.social 
Kristen Proctor @kristenproctor.bsky.social 💙 American living in Barcelona. Freelance growth strategy consultant. Founder of 6-Figure Freelancing on Upwork. Neurodivergent with a growth mindset. Into books, journaling, nature, travel, and doing whimsical things when my chronic illnesses allow.
The Broken Spine (SUBS OPEN) @thebrokenspine.co.uk Independent poetry press + cultural review platform. We publish narrative-led work with edge. #PoemsAbout #LiftToTheSky #WednesdayWIPs
#PromoteIndieLit
Edited by @alanparrywriter.co.uk
www.thebrokenspine.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/brokenspinearts
The Apiarist @theapiarist.org I used to be a scientist and a beekeeper, but now I'm just a beekeeper who writes (and talks) ... about bees and science. I promote local bees and honey, and responsible, sustainable beekeeping.
https://theapiarist.org
@imkertheo.bsky.social @imkertheo.bsky.social Imker, beekeeper, city beekeeper
@sawdustmaker.bsky.social @sawdustmaker.bsky.social Legal immigrant, living and working in Texas, small holder, beekeeper, wood turner, geoscience subsurface data wrangler, dog owner, cat butler, pony feeder.
Karen Pierce Gonzalez @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social Award winning poet/writer/artist Chaps: Coyote in the Basket of My Ribs, Moon kissed Earth wrought Vision drunk, RavenSong, Down River with Li Po etc. Art: BirdSong, Women of Babylon, etc. More: linktr.ee/KPGFolkHeart NO MAGA No solicitation
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
Salt Books @saltpublishing.com If you’re reading this, you’re in the right place.
Beautiful books you won't forget. Available in all good bookshops.
Sam Garvan @garvansam.bsky.social Poet. Reader. Plums, raspberries, apricots. Recently in Asymptote, New Welsh Review, Finished Creatures, Cyphers. Troubadour Prize. Jt runner-up Keats-Shelley prize. He/him.
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- N 🇺🇸 @n976wow.bsky.social
Low Hanging Fruit Magazine @lowhangingfruiter.bsky.social LHF is a literary arts magazine established in march 2024, and is printing their second edition this new years. Subs open!
More info at www.fruithanginglow.com
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
The Writing Well @thewritingwell.bsky.social An inspirational & productive space for creative writing & writing for wellbeing. Workshops, mentoring, spoken word events, writing circles, retreats. Host @KateOldfield.bsky.social #writingcommunity
https://the-writing-well.com
Christine Macfarlane @chrismacpoet.bsky.social Poet shortlisted for Bridport and National Poetry competitions. First pamphlet about to be published. Teacher, Headteacher, Senior lecturer in education.
Dominic Fisher Poetry @domfishpoet.bsky.social Poet, one-time English language teacher, lives near his Bristol allotment. Two collections https://dominicfisherpoetry.co.uk/
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
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.
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
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
The Emma Press @theemmapress.bsky.social small press | big dreams
Birmingham-based independent publisher of poetry, children's books, short-form prose and translations.
www.theemmapress.com
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.
James Mcconachie @jamesmcconachie1.bsky.social Poet, apparently. Forward Prize, BOTN and Pushcart nom. Occasional horseman, remote rural Spain. Words in blackbough, iambapoet, eatthestorms, Modron, Madrid Review, Bad Lilies, Dark Mountain project and more.
https://linktr.ee/jamesmcconachiepoet
Abridged @abridgedmagazine.bsky.social Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
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.
The Prose Poem @theprosepoem.bsky.social An online journal of prose poetry.
Ekphrastic poetry call open until 15 December.
https://theprosepoem.com/
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
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 😊)
Beth Brooke @bethbpoet.bsky.social Poet, Quaker, retired teacher, socialist, runner (just) , proud Omi . She/her
Ruth Padel @ruthpadel.bsky.social Poetry - wildlife - music - India - Greece
New 📗 GIRL -
‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore)
‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
'Girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai)
Www.ruthpadel.com
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
Tracey Herd @traceyherd-rio.bsky.social Poet (Bloodaxe Books) & snake mum. 🐍
Prolific. 3 books in 30 years. Last one -
Not in this World, 2015.
❤️ old films 1920s - 60s (Elizabeth Hartman), 50s & 60s music &, er, Showaddywaddy & Mud.
Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Roberto Bolano, Plath...
Rosie Garland @rosiegarlandwriter.bsky.social Writer, March Violet, secret medievalist, FRSL✨
Not cynical; just been taking notes.
Novels:The Fates(Quercus)
Palace of Curiosities, Vixen, Night Brother(Borough)
Poems:Nine Arches
March Violets: @marchvioletsband.bsky.social
http://www.rosiegarland.com
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
Sue Spiers @spiropoetry.bsky.social I work with Winchester Poetry Festival, Open University Poetry Society and Winchester Muse - a spoken word event in Winchester. I write poetry and sometimes it gets published. https://www.spiropoetry.com/
Nigel Kent @kent-nj.bsky.social 5 times Pushcart Prize nominated poet. Author of ‘Sent’, Fall’, ‘Benchwarmers’, ‘Unmuted’, Psychopathogen’ and ‘Saudade’ (all Hedgehog Poetry Press). 3 times shortlisted for the Saboteur Reviewer of Literature. Website: www.nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com
Sarah Doyle @poetsarahdoyle.bsky.social Poet, reader, workshop leader, weather watcher, moon gazer. Pre-Raphaelite Society Poet-in-Residence. Widely published, inc. Something so wild and new... (2021) & (m)othersongs (2023), V. Press.
Web: sarahdoyle.co.uk
https://buymeacoffee.com/poetsarahdoyle
Vicki Kaye @vickikaye.bsky.social writer and visual artist. Poetry pamphlet ‘Fractured Light’ pub. by Sampson Low Press 2002.
Tessa Foley @tessafoley.bsky.social Poet. New-ish collection available from Live Canon https://www.livecanon.co.uk/store/product/try-to-find-me-tessa-foley
Tara Wheeler @tarawheeler.bsky.social Co-Editor at Dust Poetry, writer, researcher, mother of two small people. She/her 🪴
Susie Campbell @susiecampbell.bsky.social Makes poetry in multi-modes. Tenter (2020), Enclosures (2021), The Sleeping Place (2023), wastelands (forthcoming, Guillemot Press, 2025)
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/
Sarah O @palimpsest22.bsky.social Mainly poetry in independent presses, art, glass, theatre & people playing. Allotment life. York with Glasgow links. UK.
Not every act of kindness is part of a plan.
Website :www.sarahowriter.com
Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social Poet, weaver, conservationist. Living a creative wild life in Cornwall
Rob Miles @robmilespoetry.bsky.social Words & Pictures
Poet, Broken Sleep Books; academic, University of Leeds
More here: https://shorturl.at/IYmT1
Rebecca Gethin @rgethin.bsky.social Gardener, poet, nature- watcher, novel reader, swimmer, other stuff 
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
Ralph Dartford @ralphdartford.bsky.social Poet and human. 3rd collection, ‘House Anthems’ out now with Valley Press. Studying PHD at the University of Huddersfield. Editor at www.northerngravy.com
Rachael Clyne @rachaelclyne.bsky.social
UK poet and writer. Latest collection: 'You'll Never Be Anyone Else' - https://www.serenbooks.com/book/youll-never-be-anyone-else/ https://rachaelclyne.blogspot.com/ @rachaelclyne Substack
#PoetsOnBluesky #PoetryCommunity
#poets #ukpoets
Rachel Burrows @rburrows.bsky.social Undiscovered Voices Winner ‘26
Poems on the Move ‘26.
Pushcart Prize Nominated. Cheshire Novel Prize SL‘25, Guppy Open LL’25
Write Mentor Picturebook SL’23/LL’24
Poetry - The Dirigible Balloon, Northern Gravy, Tyger Tyger, The Toy, LTP, BBC Upload.🏴
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
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
Phil Hyde @gphydeauthor.bsky.social Poet, writer and reviewer living in Grimsby, UK. Published by Black Bough, Hedgehog, the Dark Poets, Written Off, LIncs & Inks, voidspacezine. Short fiction extensively published by Pure Slush. Always follow back. https://linktr.ee/gphydeauthor