John Darwin
Published poet, winner of best spoken word show Greater Manchester Fringe 2021. Turkophile, atheist and aesthete. Host of Crooked Posts, Prestwich.
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@fromxthextower.bsky.social
UK writer + visual poet Debut vis/poetry book with Steel Incisors. PhD on woman-led horror & intertextual poetics at Northumbria Uni 💋🔪 www.notesfromthetower.info
@brihughespoet.bsky.social
Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway; edits Osmosis Press, How(ever) How2 Digital Archive, Resurgence and Ecologist poetry feature; ask me about the RHUL Poetry MA pathway! https://linktr.ee/brihughespoet
@maxwallis.bsky.social
📚 Max Wallis | Author of the Polari Prize-shortlisted Modern Love (2011) & Everything Everything (2016). 🖋️ Poems in The Rialto, Poetry Scotland, Spectator ✍️ Freelance journalist (The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph). 🌈 Gay, disabled, survivor.
@wedossett.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Chester. Addiction Recovery Spirituality, Buddhism, Religious Education/Religion & Worldviews. Poetry, Cymru, Kingfishers, Corncrakes, Curlew, Coastguarding. She/her. www.wedossett.com
@sharoncowling.bsky.social
Retired college principal, learning to write poems. First pamphlet Liven Yourself Up, available through Yaffle's Nest. Dogmother. Living with large vessel vasculitis.
@carolinegillpoetry.bsky.social
'Driftwood by Starlight' (The Seventh Quarry Press, 2021) is my first full poetry collection. Website: https://www.carolinegillpoetry.com/
@dtheherring.bsky.social
Beckett & Dante my rocks; Anne Carson, Judith Butler & Angie Estes my muses. I dream of a liveable planet for our futures - so ❤️ XR. I'm Lead Editor of indie poetry press Dithering Chaps which I post about here. He/him. https://www.ditheringchaps.com
@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
@kateoldfield.bsky.social
Writer | Mama | Mentor | Poet | Facilitator at The Writing Well workshops & events | Oxford-dweller | Yorkshire lass | escapes to Hebrides Founder @thewritingwell.bsky.social https://the-writing-well.com
@antonymair.bsky.social
Lawyer turned French estate agent turned poet, living with husband on the south coast of England - committed European, remaining angry about the folly of Brexit, and budding environmental campaigner
@rnfskinner.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, writer/performer of sketch-based comedy, evolutionary psychologist
@clarebryden.bsky.social
Born at 325ppm clarebryden.co.uk For an intro, see the pinned post Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder. — John O’Donohue
@nettie77.bsky.social
Poet and littlest hobo 🐕 first prize McLellan 2021, Ware 2022, PPP 2023. Poems appear in Dust, Atrium, IS&T, The Friday Poem, Poetry Wales. Ostriches, published by Candlestick Press. Tutor with The Writing School and shadow writer with Beyond the Spectrum.
@eld208.bsky.social
PhD at the University of Exeter on conjoined twins in literature and film. Disability studies, embodiment. Chronically ill. Currently working at Medify. Poet. Enjoys film photography and crafting. Views own.
@saccharinequeen.bsky.social
Functions adequately. New poetry published by Red Ogre, 'The Usual Apologies ' (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DYVL2PZC ) Short story collection coming with Acid Bath Press later in the year. May contain smut.
@markconnors.bsky.social
A widely published poet, novelist and creative writing tutor, based near Skipton. Co-managing editor of Yaffle Press and Yaffle's Nest. Running and music take up much of my spare time. Website: www.markconnors.co.uk.
@zoebrigley.bsky.social
@victortapner.bsky.social
British poet published by Broken Sleep Books, Salt, Southword Editions, Templar Poetry
@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.
@lauriebolger.bsky.social
@literaryharriet.bsky.social
Poet, editor, feminist, Dolly Parton enthusiast, mythmaker, punner, dog mother. She/her
@claireurquhart.bsky.social
Co-founder Open Book, former lawyer, mum of three, reads, writes and plays the flute.
@lauraswriting.bsky.social
Poet, writing tutor, former Stirling Makar. Lapsed parachutist with a chronic low-boredom threshold. ‘Truth Lies’ - Red Squirrel Press ‘Endless Blue’ - Stewed Rhubarb Press ‘Wellspring’ - Figment Books ‘Magpie Mind’ - Figment Books figmentcreativity.com
@simonalderwick.bsky.social
Poet living in Oxford. 'ways to say we're not alone' available through Broken Sleep Books
@jakecampbell88.bsky.social
Writer & Poet 'Between the salt and the ash: a journey into the soul of Northumbria' (MUP, March 2025) https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526175373/
@zosiasamosia.bsky.social
Poems with The Emma Press | Monograph with Palgrave | Digital Exhibition at MoLI | Teaching Fellow at Edinburgh | personal account | she/her.
@rehema.bsky.social
(You probably call me Remy.) Author / Poet. This House, out now from @TheEmmaPress. In a previous life, I was shouting about books & authors to anyone interested. Currently less shouty but still all about books and authors. I go outside sometimes.
@caitlinkendall83.bsky.social
Poet. Mum. Teacher. Will definitely share too many photos from my walks with the dogs. Free substack @caitlinkendall83 Nothing is Yours - Written Off Publishing
@kathrynlmetcalfe.bsky.social
Poet, Reader. Scots/Irish/Yorkshire. Supports St Mirren F.C. & Bradford City. A.F.C.
@robcowen.bsky.social
Author of THE NORTH ROAD (2025) // COMMON GROUND (2015) // THE HEEDING (2021) // and others... Writer // journalist // poet
@suemillard.bsky.social
writer, singer, harper, Fell pony person...far too many hats and only one head
@vespertine4.bsky.social
Cardiff poet. Best of the Net nominee. Author of two poetry collections - 'Spectrum of Flight' published in 2020 & 'Dawn's Incision' in 2024. Co-Poetry Editor @brokenspinearts.bsky.social
@queercomrades.bsky.social
Queer East Asian writer and academic based in Nottingham, UK; author of The Passion of the Rabbit God (Valley Press), Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance (Routledge), and Queering the Asian Diaspora (Sage).
@kateinnes.bsky.social
Writer, trained in Archaeology. Poet. Author of Medieval 'Arrowsmith Trilogy', historical fantasy 'Greencoats' & new paranormal adventure - 'An Ancient Haunting' If it's old, I'm interested. www.kateinneswriter.com
@antoniajadeking.bsky.social
Doing my Phd on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, talk to me about that, Beyoncé or coffee📚Poetry Pamphlet out with Bad Betty Press (lit agent @sileloquies)
@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
@livtuckwrites.bsky.social
Trying to be a poet. Poem Whisperer. Arts administrator working with neurodivergent writers and creatives. Senior bookseller, and bookworm. Lit journal associate editor. Queer. Autistic. Selenophile. Grammar nerd. Maisie the spaniel’s human. 📚🖊️🌈🏳️🌈🐾🌞🌜🌝🌌✨