John Looker
Here to share an interest in poetry, books, art & culture.
Poetry published in journals & anthologies in UK, USA, NZ/Aotearoa, Australia, India. Books by independent publishers Bennison Books.
Living in SE England. Website https://johnlooker.wordpress.com/
@stevemcormond.bsky.social
Author of four books of poetry, most recently Reckon (2018). New chapbook forthcoming in Fall 2025 from Baseline Press.
@birozi.bsky.social
Your moment of Zen. 🕉️ All pictures and videos are my own. I shoot mostly with my iPhone ☎️ and sometimes with my Nikon. 📸 Thank you 🙏 to all those who repost. No politics. I’m here for the pretty pictures. 🖼️
@victorkisob.bsky.social
Writer, Poet, Author, Photographer. Awe-struck vision, Blind to derision, Panic lesions, Mindful excision. Former UN Assistant Secretary-General & Deputy Executive Director/UN-Habitat at Victor Kisob #writer #poet #poetry
@emteepoetry.bsky.social
Poet, writer, editor with The Wee Sparrow Poetry Press. Lives in the UK.
@elisa646.bsky.social
Earth loving human, accepting of other humans who don’t act like racist xenophobic asshats. Here to educate myself and support others.
@medhawrites.bsky.social
Poet, editor and translator. Edinburgh. SciencesPo, UoE / TEDx / New Writer Awardee ‘23 (Scottish Book Trust) / Ed-at-large, Pen and Anvil Press, MA / ‘Afterbody’ out soon through Blue Diode Press, Edinburgh / Posting fragments from antiquity to today.
@bobopegs.bsky.social
Husband and father. Poet and dreamer. Debut poetry chapbook available now from Bottlecap Press. https://bottlecap.press/products/sixteenyears
@rickmarriner.com
Photographer, writer, trouble finder. Chasing light, chasing truth. A navigator of oceans and ideas, relentless in pursuit. Endurance in sport, life, and thought … always searching, always seeing.
@ericracher.bsky.social
Words in Exacting Clam, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, ballast, Apocalypse Confidential, minor literature[s], Socrates on the Beach, and elsewhere.
@snarkhunt.bsky.social
Mainly about Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s "The Hunting of the Snark" by @goetzkluge.bsky.social ※ Snark anniversaries: @snark150.bsky.social ※ My Snark blog since 2017: https://snrk.de
@benedictan.bsky.social
Poet| Debut ‘24 Black Cat Poetry| Guardian reading, tofu eating member of wokerati, citizen of the world/nowhere, middle class woman of a certain age, liberal woman over 50. Poems linked: https://linktr.ee/benedictanorell
@karenjanecannon.bsky.social
Poet & Author. PhD’ing at Uni of Southampton (Ecopoetics of Place/Body) Novel, ‘Powder Monkey’ (W&N & Phoenix). Hamish Canham Prize 2022. Bridport shortlist 2019 & 2024. Mslexia finalist 2017. Forest Dweller. #poetry #place #nature www.karenJaneCannon.com
@frankpodmore.bsky.social
Award-winning #poet, published by @apparitionlit.com, @stanzacannon.bsky.social and others; occasional #cycling opinions for @roadcc.bsky.social
@yigruzeltil.bsky.social
I read/write/translate poetry. Working on Princeps Poesis, a database of poetry books from all around the world. Details: https://whydonate.com/en/fundraising/princeps-poesis
@robertbabin.bsky.social
Away somewhere. Professional Imposter. Writer. Photographer. Musician. Dreamer. Be and do what you want, just don’t hurt anybody.
@kendallhall.bsky.social
Writer. Publishing. Books. Comedy. Proudly Canadian. I follow all writers back. #5amwritersclub #writingcommunity
@jspringe.bsky.social
Poet. Dear Blackbird, Murder Ballad, & Moth. Professor of Creative Writing & Literature at Hamilton College. Birdie & Floyd call the shots.
@suzylenpoems.bsky.social
Poet, nature-lover, community gardener, scone-baker and medical statistician. I run Edinburgh school of poets, and have two wonderful grown up kids.
@cassiepremosteele.bsky.social
Environmental writer and author of the novels Beaver Girl, The ReSisters, and Shamrock and Lotus; nonfiction books Earth Joy Writing, Moon Days, and We Heal from Memory; and 7 books of poetry. 🌎🐢🐙🦦🐳🐶✍🏼🕊️🌈 www.cassiepremosteele.com
@seanjbates.bsky.social
writer/poet/educator UMassAmherst MFA alum three poems a week: https://substack.com/@seanjbates poems in: Stone Canoe Rising Phoenix Review "What Saves Us: Poems of Empathy and Outrage in the Age of Trump", Curbstone Books. https://tinyurl.com/44yksnmp
@badvibrations62.bsky.social
Currently posting a poem a day. All my own work. All my own photos. All my own teeth, too. No DMs, please - unless I know you personally. First book of poems: Irritating the Silver Lining’ available to order online.
@taylor-strickland.bsky.social
Poet. Translator. Winner of 2023 Saltire Award for Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Get a copy of DASTRAM/DELIRIUM now -> https://linktr.ee/taylorstricklandarts
@andileighwrites.bsky.social
Author & Visual Artist Editor-in-Chief @oatleafpoetry.bsky.social 💛🤍💜🖤 🌻 🖤🩶🤍💜 andileighwrites.com
@manchesterreview.bsky.social
The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing. https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
@damienposterino.bsky.social
Poems in 30+ magazines. My first collection of 40 poems “Show Me the way into Exile” is out by Alien Buddha Press. You can purchase via https://amzn.eu/d/7mugp3i
@agameofpoems.bsky.social
Poetry, Quotes, and Inspiration, collated, curated, and created.
@stove-g-art-poetry.bsky.social
Poet, hobbyist, leisure advocate. Check out links to my book here: https://linktr.ee/stoveg
@greenman508.bsky.social
I’m a visual artist. Graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, grad work at Northwestern, taught art and worked for art supply manufacturers & design firms. Now, I’m an old white guy trying to figure life out from my US & Mexican studios.
@munsterlitcentre.bsky.social
Cork based non-profit arts organisation promoting Irish and international literature since 1993. ➡️ Southword Editions Info@munsterlit.ie
@etcharles.bsky.social
Read, write, sketch. Writer, librarian. Honored to have The Dirigible Balloon publish my poems. #SCBWI #kidlit #MG https://bethsbiblio.blogspot.com/
@sophiaholme.bsky.social
Writer and critic, made in Canada 🇨🇦, living in Oxford 🇬🇧. Jittery queer ADHD vibes. Lover of axolotls, caffeine, and anything heartfelt. 🌈✨
@endicottroad.bsky.social
Prolific author, self published on Amazon and Kobo. DM's by invitation only.
@deborahjshore.bsky.social
Poetry. Free verse & form. Severe ME/CFS. The London Magazine, Columbia Journal, Nashville Review, THINK, Thimble Lit, ballast, Pensive, Prelude, Ekstasis, Reformed Journal, Amethyst Review, Christian Century, Christianity & Literature, Relief Journal...
@angelaskelhorn.bsky.social
Canadian Visual Artist, Writer and aspiring Voice Actor. I’m also a collector of hobbies, so many half finished hobbies. #iykyk #artsky #booksky #actorsky
@jkkennedywrites.bsky.social
🐲 Author of Clumsy Beauty, available now! 🐞 Observer, mumbler, overthinker 🩵 Wisconsin, US 🔗 www.jkkennedywrites.com ✨Buy Clumsy Beauty: https://a.co/d/bfhnuhu
@evanpjones.bsky.social
Post-Canadian poet, Cavafy translator, author of Men of the Same Name (Carcanet 2025). I’ve published in the Guardian, TLS, Malahat Review and PN Review.
@dougalmcneill.bsky.social
Literary critic/historian, education trade unionist. Study (& try to write about) poetry, modernism, literatures in & of Aotearoa/NZ, Australia, Canada, SF, Marxism, & psychoanalysis. Author: FORMS OF FREEDOM (Otago UP, 2024).
@dylan20.bsky.social
Editor, swimmer, writer, banjo banger, poet, zen AF. Now certified Canadian
@ravoon.bsky.social
Sunday Times Poetry Critic. Also Archaeology (MPI-GEA) and Church (ECUSA). Latest pamphlet (title in banner) out from New Walk Editions November 2024.
@saraswatinagpal.bsky.social
Forward Prize, Pushcart & BOTN nominated Poet, Author, Educator, Performing Artist. Co-Editor @thewingedmoon substack magazine. Lover of Sci-Fi and Fantasy, tomes, trees, all things purple.INFJ. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/saraswatinagpal