Nathaniel King @nathanielking.bsky.social Poet | Ghost Clinic, Broken Sleep Books | Eric Gregory 2024 | PhD research in hauntology at Royal Holloway |
Chris Emery @chrisemery.me Poet and book designer, born in Manchester, living in Cromer. Co-founder of Salt Publishing. Five collections from Arc and Salt, most recently Wonder (2025). Newsletter: chrisemery.me
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Paul Bavister @paulbavister.bsky.social writes poetry
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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 
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Jon Doble @jon26.bsky.social Cornwall based and lover of poetry. Two volumes so far: “Caged Birds & Spirit Levels” 2022 and “My name is …. (displaced poems for invisible people)” 2023. Available on Amazon.
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Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social Funded PhD student @ MMU (ecopoetry, friendship & the more-than-human city)/ Northern Writers’ Award winner/ Human Townsperson (Broken Sleep Books)
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Steve Waldron @stevewaldron.bsky.social Nature Photographer. 🌻 💚 #VitaminN
Ian Brownlie @ianbrownlie.bsky.social Writer of poetry/fiction for children (Dirigible, Tyger Tyger, Little Thoughts, Nimblewitlit, The Toy) and adults (Shine, Viridine, Underbelly, Rough Diamond) | Pushcart nom '26, Times/CH LL | he/him
Tim Thomas @timofnewbury.bsky.social European 🇪🇺
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Rich Bitting @richbitt.bsky.social I'm a composer, field recordist, and photographer - listening, looking, and imagining.
Kyla Houbolt @luaz.bsky.social I write poems and I garden. *Becoming Altar*, new and selected poems, available from asterismbooks.com. *Mapless* available from SHINE Poetry. See https://kylahoubolt.us/ for all kinds of more.
Ash & Ink @bundtkake.bsky.social Malignant poet. Anti-Fascist Veteran. Putting down words, in odd ways, hoping they will someday explain, what I clearly never understood. No one is free, until everyone is free
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Eleanor Carpenter @eleanorcarpenter.bsky.social Poet
Strider Marcus Jones @stridermarcusjones.bsky.social Poet. Five published books.DMU Law graduate. Pushcart Prizex4/Best of the Netx3 Nominations. Founder/Editor/Publisher of Lothlorien Poetry Journal https://lothlorienpoetryjournal.blogspot.co https://stridermarcusjonespoet.blogspot.com/p/about-strider.html
Paul Cannon @pvcannon.bsky.social Poet
Dean Norton @zentinl.bsky.social somewhere between cold coffee
and used twist ties
is a paper life
in an automatic heart
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Jen Thorne @jenthorne.bsky.social "Delightfully bleak."
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Ju (Julian) @hool415.bsky.social Poetry stuff only. Nominated for a Forward Prize, Best Of The Net (Twice) and Two Pushcart Awards.
Black Bough (Silver Branch Poet), East Ridge Review (Featured Poet), Joint 1st BB New Simile Competition.
richard mortimer @richardmortimer.bsky.social Archaeologist, Mekon, Drinker
Sawston via Devon and Dartford
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Niall M Oliver @nmoliverpoetry.bsky.social I'm a husband, dad and reader & writer of poems, from Ireland. I have poems in various journals and a couple of published pamphlets. You can buy them here https://niallmoliverpoetry.bigcartel.com/
Don Schofield @don-schofield.bsky.social Poet, Memoirist, Translator, Expat, Lover of Life
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.
@georgebklynmercado.bsky.social @georgebklynmercado.bsky.social Is the dream the inspiration or the inspiration the dream? Do your lyrics come from your heart or are they hidden in your soul?
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Sean Bates @seanjbates.bsky.social writer/poet/educator
https://substack.com/@seanjbates
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poems in:
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Emerge Literary Journal
Stone Canoe
Rising Phoenix Review
"What Saves Us"anthology ed. Martín Espada https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp
Sarah Frideswide @sjfrideswide.bsky.social Published poet. Fiction Writer. MA Creative Writing Distinction. Working class writer with ADHD and C-PTSD. Author of One-Armed Nick and the Nuns of Osyth, here: https://sarahfrideswide.substack.com/p/6-double-barrelled-flintlock-pistol
Scott Westcott @westcottwriter.bsky.social Poet & Ponderer
Margaret Lee @margaretleeauthor.bsky.social I am a poet, scholar, fiber artist, watercolor sketcher, and aspiring naturalist. ThD and MDiv. Previously, a professor and higher ed admin.
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Lin Hart @poetry-with-hart.bsky.social Poet, wannabe artist, and zinester from WV. Married, mother of two. Definately a cryptid in disguise. Poetry found in Broken Spines, Penstricken, and SixtyOddPoets, among others. Zines in kofi below. Enjoy 🤗
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Debra J. Nordyke @dnwritespoetry.bsky.social Writer of poetry. To walk as a warrior, embracing grace, into the storms of darkness to breathe out light. Weaving the evil threads life hurls with the threads of wonder. Beauty is cultivated in darkness.
Jo Fox @joxfoxo.bsky.social I like writing poems and reading other people’s too. Picture Book writer - currently querying 🤞Published writer of short fiction in national women’s press. Novice knitter.
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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.'
Ann Tigone @anntigone.bsky.social Poet. Dramatic but lazy. Wistfully nonchalant. Passionately disinterested in oxymorons.
James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
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Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
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)
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Scott McConnaha @smcconnaha.bsky.social Poet. Living in Wisconsin. Author of Without a Prayer.
www.scottmcconnaha.com
J. D. Nelson @madverse.bsky.social poet
MadVerse.com
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poetry micropoetry anti-poetry
Boulder, Colorado
almost human
Christus Super Omnia ☩
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Katie Frances Hartless @katiehartless.bsky.social I'm a persistent poet, free-spirited fiction writer, and word trapeze artist working on my latest death-defying act on the keys.
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Jessie Carty @neysa.bsky.social Poet, educator, neurospicy
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Fiftywords @fiftywords.bsky.social Thinks too much and tries to make sense of the world’s chaos, beauty, and commas; mostly through poetry.
Francis H Powell writer and poet @fhpowellwriter.bsky.social I'm an artist, musician, poet, writer, a creative being. I live in France, but born in the UK. I have written anything from horror books to a children's book. Vegetarian, dog lover, anti war maybe a bit woke Follow me if you can.
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DeRicki Johnson @derickijohnson.bsky.social Wanderer, writer, reader
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Laura Cooney *Motherbunnet* on sale @lozzawriting.bsky.social Writer, Edinburgh.
Editor: @frazzledlitmag
BOTN nominated 2024. On all socials same name.
Writing for children: @lozzakidwriting
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Gary Legg @poetryman1.bsky.social Carer Gardener Poet Reader
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Katie Jenkins @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social Mother, writer, public servant. Poetry co-editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
Paul Brookes @thewombwellrainbow.bsky.social Shop asst. Poet and interviewer. Work broadcast on BBC Radio Three, The Verb. Edits The Wombwell Rainbow. #PromoteIndieLit Recent work: The Drey Skin. Forthcoming: "Miner Wattas", "Mashing" https://ko-fi.compaulthewombwellrainbow
Dave Ashley @daveashleypoet.bsky.social Story Teller, Word Juggler, all round good egg,
Poet from the North of England.
ADHD, cPTSD, LGBTQ+ Ally (I'm sure I have more letters)
Anti Fascist, quite left wing
Part of the #PoetsOfDoom collective
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Chris Wilton @magnuspim.bsky.social 🇿🇦🇨🇦 Secret wine agent, college instructor, poetic inhibitor, amateur historian. Immigrant. Arsenal. Stormers. Springboks. he/him/his
Julian Day @julianday.bsky.social Published by Blackbough Poetry, The Storms Journal, FolkHeart Press. Featured writer in Patricia's Pen, and on A Thousand Shades Of Green podcast and a regular guest reader on Eat The Storms podcast. Best of The Net nominated.
Rebekah Teller 💙🏳️🌈 @rteller.bsky.social Midwestern Gen Xer #poet
http://www.kreativejoose.com
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
Carolyn Thomas @carolynthomas.bsky.social Welsh poet and writer in exile on Tyneside. Poems in Anthropocene, Dreich, The Ekphrastic Review, Impossible Archetype, These Pages Sing and elsewhere including Broken Spine’s Coffeehouse podcast. Stories in Gwasg Honno anthologies
Fox and Star Books @foxandstarbooks.bsky.social We publish poetry and fiction chapbooks by UK debut authors with an emphasis on global majority writers. Founder/editor: @carrieetter.bsky.social; co-editor: Kaycee Hill Website: https://foxandstarbooks.org
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
PoetessOProinntigh @poetessoprunty.bsky.social Artist. Poetess ©. Interests include, but are not limited to, literature, art, history, mythology, folklore, archaeology, photography, vintage, fine arts, etc...
"Never let'em determine your worth - only you can do that." OProinntigh
Marcelle Newbold @marcellenewbold.bsky.social Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales
Bridport shortlist. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe….
https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
Reid Hepworth @reidhepworth.bsky.social Poet + Author
the improbability of sea monkeys (2025)
loss is a river (2024)
Gregory Crosby @monostich.bsky.social Poet. Author of Said No One Ever (2021) and Walking Away From Explosions in Slow Motion (2018). https://buttondown.email/gregorycrosby