Keith Jebb @keithjebb.bsky.social Writer, poet, reviewer, sometime creative writing lecturer, turn left at Labour and keep going.
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
Sophie Dumont @sophiedumont.bsky.social Poet | Editor | Copywriter
Debut poetry collection out with Corsair (Little, Brown Book Group) 📘🛶 Featured in The Guardian, Financial Times & Sunday Times Style.
“a book of watersheds - love, death and rivers” - Linda France
📍Bristol/Bath, UK
Creative Writing at NEIU @neiu-cw.bsky.social Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more!
https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading
Shaun Barr @shaunbarr.bsky.social Poet, photographer, gardener, Cumbria, UK. Longlisted National Poetry Competition 2025. The Manchester Review, Dream Catcher, The Frogmore Papers, The Madrid Review, Orbis.
shaunbarrphotography.co.uk
And Other Poems @andotherpoems.bsky.social Poetry magazine edited by Tom Bailey and Laurie Ogden.
www.andotherpoems.com
Sandy McIntosh @sandymcintosh.bsky.social Author of twelve volumes of poetry, a Chinese cookbook, and three computer software programs.
https://sandymcintosh.info
Helen Ivory 🪠🐈⬛ @helenivory.bsky.social Poet, artist. Cholmondeley Award winner. Sixth Bloodaxe collection, 'Constructing a Witch' is a PBS Winter Recommendation. I make collage and shadowboxes from broken things. I shout poems at the moon about the dark.
Patricia Debney @patriciadebney.com Writer/Survivor/Activist. Award-winning four poetry collections, novel. Next: memoir re coming of age thru child sexual abuse LEAVING LOCUST AVENUE. Extracts in blog. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 https://patriciadebney.com/
#CSA #ChildSexualAbuse #EDS #MCAS #writer #memoir
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.
Huw Gwynn-Jones @huwgwynn.bsky.social Poet, Dreamer, Welshman living in Orkney. Retired entrepreneur.
Kevin Gardner @kg520.bsky.social Editor, anthologist, reviewer, professor. Alexander Pope | John Betjeman | contemporary poetry. 
@drneilastley.bsky.social @drneilastley.bsky.social 
Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana @corrintachibana.bsky.social Author of ‘Sing me down from the dark’ (SALT; 2022).
Worked in higher ed. in U.K. and Japan. Poems in P.N. Review, The North, MAGMA, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House & The Madrid Review.
Lover of Things Japanese and proud mother of teenager.
Daniel Carden Nemo @danielnemo.bsky.social EIC @ https://www.amsterdamreview.org/
danielnemo.com
Jerm Curtin @jermcurtin.bsky.social Irish poet living in Spain
Cacti & other poems
https://munsterlit.ie/bookshop/cacti/
Patrick Kavanagh Award 2021
http://iambapoet.com/wave-fourteen
Martha Sprackland @marrrtha.bsky.social Editor, writer and translator. Dark Night: Poems & Selected Prose of John of the Cross (Penguin Classics, 2026)
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/462137/dark-night-by-cross-st-john-of-the/9780241699294
marthasprackland.co.uk
Dr Jennie 🐝 (she/her) @jenruthbailey.bsky.social #HEinFE library lass, writer, wanderer, story slinger, benign menace to society. Refuse to outsource my intellect to generative AI.
Looking for fun, creative workshops? Hit me up: https://www.jenbee.me.uk
John Field | Poor Rude Lines @johnfield1.bsky.social I blog about poetry at Poor Rude Lines: https://johnfield.org 
Inpress Books 📚 @inpressbooks.bsky.social Reaching readers on behalf of 50+ independent publishers. Funded by Arts Council England. Follow us on socials @inpressbooks📚 linktr.ee/inpressbooks 
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
Elizabeth Osmond @bethosmond.bsky.social Poet and Neonatologist.
Debut pamphlet “Hatchery” published with V. Press - you can buy hatchery here https://vpresspoetry.blogspot.com/p/hatchery.html?m=1
https://linktr.ee/elizabeth.osmond
Jamie Woods @jamiewoods77.bsky.social Poet, indie punk, optimistic rebel.
Buy my book, read my poems etc etc: https://linktr.ee/jamiewoods77
Richard Nicholls @richardnicholls.net He/Him, Podcaster, Award Winner, Liberal Lefty Humanist, Husband and Dad, Dancing Animal, 75% caffeine. Best Selling Author etc.
richardnicholls.net/links
Natasha Ryan @justplainscrambled.bsky.social Poems by day, prose by night. Préfère l'impair.
Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social Physics, bubbles, oceans, hot chocolate and curiosity. Professor at UCL, writer, broadcaster. Author of Storm in a Teacup and Blue Machine https://linktr.ee/helenczerski Co-host of BBC Radio 4's Rare Earth
@mariaisakova.bsky.social @mariaisakova.bsky.social 
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- F Sarah Watkinson @festuca.bsky.social Poet and mycologist
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
Jo Bell @jobellwriter.bsky.social Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out now with HarperNorth. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
John Greening @greeningpoet.bsky.social British poet (The Interpretation of Owls: Poems 1977-2022 ed. Gardner, Baylor UP). Also editor of anthologies & editions of Blunden, Grigson, Crichton Smith, a new selected UA Fanthorpe & a forthcoming Matthew Arnold. Not forgetting a Rilke 'New Poems'
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.'
Alison Brackenbury @abrackenbury.bsky.social Poet & broadcaster. New non-fiction prose book, 'Village', OUT!
Witches and wheelbarrows: women's history in my village, 1841-1971: cheerful survival!
To buy, search for
ALISON BRACKENBURY VILLAGE AMAZON
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
Benedicta Norell @benedictan.bsky.social Poet. Empowering midlife, eco & mother poetry. First collection coming 2027. Out now: Three Poems in Aftershock Issue 3| Debut Terrible Mother @theblackcatpoetrypress and Waterstones.com |Poems Linked Here:
https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
Ann Leahy @annleahy.bsky.social Here for poetry, wildflowers, biodiversity, and dogs. Poetry collection
@arlenhouse.bsky.social Also, sociological and socio-legal research, including on ageing and disability. Books @policypress.bsky.social and @routledgebooks.bsky.social
John Goodby @gobygoodby.bsky.social 
Tristan Moss @tristan-moss.bsky.social Poetry, Art, Politics and Pedagogy
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
AL Dugmore @aldugmore.bsky.social Poet, copywriter, creative.
Andy Williamson @andywilliamson.com Writer, poet, creative thinker & architect for democracy / Sgrìobhadair, bàrd, neach-smaoineachaidh cruthachail agus ailtire airson deamocrasaidh | Aotearoa & Isle of Skye | https://urbanbadgercollective.com/links/
Angela Arnold @angelaarnold777.bsky.social Poet/artist living in Wales. Collections: In Between (Stairwell Books, 2023) and another forthcoming with TPL. Pamphlet: Otherdays (ABP, 2026). Lefty, Quaker, environmental campaigner, worrier for the world's future.
Kathleen Jamie @kathleenjamie.bsky.social Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
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.
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.
Jacqueline Saphra @jsaphra.bsky.social Poet, activist, teacher, retired mother
Matthew Francis @mfrancispoet.bsky.social Poet, novelist and professor emeritus in creative writing at Aberystwyth University. Latest novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps out now from Neem Tree Press.
Sheenagh Pugh @sheenaghpugh.bsky.social Lefty, writer, crazy cat lady
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/
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.
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.
Martyn Crucefix @mcrucefix.bsky.social Poet, blogger on poetry, translator. See my website https://martyncrucefix.com/ + Editor of Young Poets Page Acumen Poetry magazine https://acumen-poetry.co.uk/young-poets/
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
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
Kristian Evans @kristianevans.bsky.social Welsh writer, poet, editor, ecological thinker & founder of Modron Magazine: @modronmagazine.bsky.social
https://www.serenbooks.com/book/100-poems-to-save-the-earth/
https://www.brokensleepbooks.com/product-page/zo%C3%AB-brigley-kristian-evans-otherwor
Rosie Hadden @rosiehadden.bsky.social Poet, weaver, conservationist. Living a creative wild life in Cornwall
Dr Carrie Etter @carrieetter.bsky.social Poet, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Poems in Iowa Review, Poetry London, TLS, The New Republic... | Academic | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
Katrina Naomi @katrinanaomipoet.bsky.social Poet & performer. Battery Rocks (Seren 2024). 'dance as if' out with Verve Sept 25. Winner of Keats-Shelley Prize, Arthur Welton Award & Saboteur Award. Swimmer & walker. Loves dance & art. Vegan. PhD - Goldsmiths. Also on insta.
www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
Alec Finlay @alecfinlay.bsky.social artist and poet; ecological remediation and human recuperation; landscape, tea, limit and creativity; lives by the sea in Edinburgh; mostly sharing a daily poem here.
Rishi Dastidar @betarish.bsky.social Poet &c | rishidastidar.com | linktr.ee/betarish
Longbarrow Press @longbarrowpress.bsky.social Sheffield-based poetry publisher with an ethos of craft, care and collaboration. Books, recordings, films, walks, performances. Editor: Brian Lewis.
https://longbarrowpress.com
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.
Mat Riches @matriches.bsky.social Poet, market researcher, husband, father, knobhead.
Book called Collecting The Data out via Red Squirrel Press or me. The "Aldi Stanley Tucci".
https://t.co/eJeeqVdmvz
Jake Reynolds @jakeareynolds.bsky.social Poet. Author of We Both Say (2026, Broken Sleep Books). Bio doesn't even rhyme. www.jarpoetry.com
Vicki Kaye @vickikaye.bsky.social writer and visual artist. Poetry pamphlet ‘Fractured Light’ pub. by Sampson Low Press 2002.
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
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.
Sarah O'Connor @sarahocwrites.bsky.social Writer, Poet, Theatre goer, Music lover, Irishwoman abroad she/her
http://linktr.ee/SarahOCwrites
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
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
Forest Poets @forestpoets.bsky.social We meet monthly at the Rose and Crown pub, Walthamstow
for reading, writing, performing... PLUS
@PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic; Waltham Forest Poetry Comp http://bit.ly/wfpoetrycomp
Run by @paulmcgrane.bsky.social
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.
Steve Pottinger @bigstevepoet.bsky.social Old enough to know better. Still doesn't. Likes it that way.
Poet/stage manager/defiant square peg.
www.stevepottinger.co.uk 
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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Emma Harding @emmaharding.bsky.social Writer | audio maker | poetry pusher. Editor Drama, Arts & Classical Music, BBC Audio Wales & West of England. Debut novel: The Berliners/Friedrichstrasse 19 https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/emma-harding/the-berliners/9781529376203/
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
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
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
Julian Dobson @juliandobson.bsky.social Place, poetry, a dash of policy. Books on civic universities, urban nature, town centre futures and urban policy. Poems on anything. Imposter geographer. Also at juliandobson.net
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!
Of Poetry Podcast @ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social Kitchen table conversations with poets. Hosted by Han VanderHart. Independent. No ads. For the community. www.OfPoetryPodcast.com 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics @periodicities.bsky.social est. March 2020 : editor/publisher rob mclennan https://bsky.app/profile/robmclennan.bsky.social
built as a curious extension of above/ground press (b. 1993
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/
member of Literary Magazines Canada Collective,
Alex Chand @alexchand.bsky.social MFA @ Mississippi / MA @ Leeds / poet and playwright / https://alexchand.com / recent poems in The Cincinnati Review and The Offing
Joel Anthony Harris @joelanthonyhar89.bsky.social I am an emerging poet. 2024 Best of the Net nominee and recent guest lecturer at McGill University's Poetry Matters symposium Poetic Attention.
Aaron Wright @aaronwright2.bsky.social Poet, spoken word, music shenaniganner, managed by Erasmus Croc, the world’s first Poetry Crocodile .
Clare Best @clarebest.bsky.social reading, looking, listening carefully; paying attention; writing
clarebest.co.uk
also @cbestphd.bsky.social posting bits and pieces around my doctoral research
#poetry #memoir #lifewriting #teachingwriting #CSA #OUPGR #opera #libretto #materialculture
Phil Vernon @philvernon.bsky.social Poetry, humanitarian issues, peacebuilding. Latest poetry collection Guerrilla Country (Flight of the Dragonfly Press, 2024): http://bit.ly/485JisV
Have finally quit the awful 'X' - why did I wait so long? - and landed here.
Simon Maddrell @simonmaddrell.bsky.social Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer.
Sixth pamphlet ‘Patient L1’ out Feb 2025.
Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026.
https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
Lynn Valentine @dizzylynn.bsky.social Poet and dog mum often lost in the mire of poor mental health. Debut collection, Life’s Stink & Honey #CinnamonPress 2022. Scots Language pamphlet, A Glimmer o Stars @ HedgehogPoetryPress 2021. Working on next collection with #CinnamonPress. She/her
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
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
Susan Richardson Writer @susanrichardson.bsky.social Nature writer & poet. Latest book 'Where the Seals Sing' (William Collins). 4th poetry collection shortlisted Ted Hughes Award. Lives on a cliff in the far west of Wales, making kin with the more-than-human world https://linktr.ee/susan_richardson_writer