Maggie Sawkins
Poet living on the Isle of Wight. I work in the Quarr Abbey bookshop. Latest collection The House Where Courage Lives.
@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
@abrackenbury.bsky.social
Poet and broadcaster. My new non-fiction prose book, 'Village', will be available online in July. With 'witches', wheelbarrows, and a pioneering woman archaeologist with a houseful of treasures in Long Lane...
@mosababutoha.bsky.social
Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
@lorrainemariner.bsky.social
Poet & librarian. Two collections with Picador ‘Furniture’ & ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’, also writing poems for children. Works at the National Poetry Library. Edited some 10 Poems About… for Candlestick Press. Powered by tea across all platforms.
@anne-marie-fyfe.bsky.social
#art #shetlandyarns #cushendall #cockerspaniels #harbours #rhubarbicecream #galleries #ferries #le-marais #chiswick #memoir #nightsky #poetry: making it new with 'No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters' (Seren 2019), making it happen at #coffeehousepoetry!
@helenmort.bsky.social
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
@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
@poetrysociety.bsky.social
A charitable organisation promoting and advocating poets & poetry since 1909. Publishes #ThePoetryReview, supports young poets @youngpoetsnet.bsky.social. poetrysociety.org.uk linktr.ee/poetrysociety22
@harrymanonbluesky.bsky.social
Poet, Co-Artistic Director, Fully Booked Theatre, Translator | RLF at Newcastle University | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender Prize, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers Award | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk
@julwe1.bsky.social
Neurodivergent poet and editor. Steering editor for 'Lighthouse'. Latest collection 'The Telling' (Nine Arches press, 2022). https://juliawebb.org/ https://visual-poetics.blogspot.com/ https://storymachines.co.uk/portfolio/lighthouse/
@pamthompson240.bsky.social
Leicester-based poet, educator and reviewer and visual artist. PhD poetry and holography. Show Date and Time (Smith Doorstop) Strange Fashion (Pindrop Press) forthcoming pamphlet, Sub/urban Legends (Paper Swans Press). Hawthornden Fellow.
@chrisemery.me
WELCOME! AKA Chris Hamilton-Emery, I’m a poet and publisher at @saltpublishing.com. I was born in Manchester, UK, and have published four collections of poetry – a new book, ‘Wonder’, is forthcoming from Salt 🥳. Website: www.chrisemery.me
@blue-sky-aphorisms.bsky.social
A commonplace of found aphorisms & proverbs. "Aphorisms are like airplanes, they stay up only while they are in motion." —Nabokov "All songs are proverbial— those of birds, rivers, winds, just listen . . ." —DW
@alanparry83.bsky.social
Award Winning Writer Spoken-Word Artist EiC @brokenspinearts.bsky.social Workshop Facilitator Podcast & Events Host Lecturer in English https://shorturl.at/gxRbM
@brokensleepbooks.bsky.social
Award winning indie publisher | Poetry | Essays | Fiction | Lay out your unrest | Widening access to the arts | Editor: @godzillakent.bsky.social | For reviews: stuart@brokensleepbooks.com | Founded: 2018 Website: brokensleepbooks.com
@lucyenglish.bsky.social
Spoken word poet, novelist, poetry filmmaker. Professor of Creative Enterprise, co-director of Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival. Loves trees. https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B0034P8U64 https://canceralleyproject.com https://thebookofhours.org
@jobellwriter.bsky.social
Poet, digital salonniere. Host of The Poetic Licence (Patreon) - monthly prompts, famous poet interviews, a creative community. Memoir, BOATER out with HarperNorth in summer '25. https://linktr.ee/BoaterJoBell
@ianseedauthor.bsky.social
Author: My Outsize Hank Williams Cowboy Hat, Night Window, New York Hotel (TLS Book of the Year), Makers of Empty Dreams. Translator: Pierre Reverdy, Max Jacob, Gëzim Hajdari, Ivano Fermini. www.ianseed.co.uk
@ninaparmenter.bsky.social
Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Lover-not-Fighter-in-Chief at Trowbridge Poetry Stanza. Collection ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022.
@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 UK Poetry #poets #ukpoets
@ogre.red
Red Ogre Review is an indie press for poetry, music, and art based in California and the UK. We're fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media for nonprofit activities and a member of CLMP. Subs open! https://redogrereview.submittable.com/submit
@paulmcgrane.bsky.social
81% Welsh, 18% Irish, 100% poetry. Co-founder of ForestPoets.bsky.social, Walthamstow, and host of PoemsNotBombs.bsky.social open mic, Walthamstow & Soho. Big fan of #thefall & #LOFC https://indigodreamspublishing.com/paul-mcgrane
@bbruise.bsky.social
Let's write a better future. Ben Bruges, poet, works in education, lives in Hastings, UK. benbruges.medium.com/i-didnt-know-you-wrote-poetry-e0b25651ca62
@msstefaniekirby.bsky.social
Writer. Mom. Xeric gardener. REMAINDER (Bull City Press, 2025). FRUITFUL (Driftwood Press, 2024). Poems in Best of the Net, West Branch, phoebe, Cincinnati Review, etc. See more poetry at https://linktr.ee/stefaniekirbypoetry
@tomblake17.bsky.social
Some atoms in the shape of an elongated hominid. Poems. Writing reviews for KLOF mag. Buy my book here https://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/product-page/%C6%A8-tom-blake
@jobratten.bsky.social
Poet person. London. CLIMACTERIC (2022). PhD St Andrews. Work in lots of places and in progress. NB: I tend to only follow UK-based poets and publishers here. jobratten.co.uk
@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
@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/
@iambapoet.com
iambapoet.com is where poetry is seen and heard – four times a year. Accepts new and published work from emerging and established poets. Created and curated by @markantonyowen.com. Want more poetry? Follow #ekphrastic sister journal @afterpoetry.com.
@ailiteraryreview.bsky.social
Quarterly poetry journal, exploring new avenues of human creativity with AI-powered tools | ailiteraryreview.co.uk | Editor: @danpower.bsky.social
@worldboxingnews.com
Boxing news, exclusive interviews, and live results from the biggest names in the sport. Email: contact@worldboxingnews.com
@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/ Hedgehog Press Pushcart nominated Dandarabilla.
@deborahharvey.bsky.social
Bristolian. 6th collection, 'Love the Albatross', pub by Indigo Dreams Publishing. Currently writing about ADHD and nature. She/her https://theleapingword.com https://indigodreamspublishing.com/deborah-harvey
@profdavidmorley.bsky.social
Professor at Warwick Uni, Poet at Carcanet, Ted Hughes Award for The Invisible Gift, PBS Choice for FURY, Forward Prize finalist, Writer of The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing, Fellow Royal Society of Literature,Thought Fox.
@nickykippax.bsky.social
Aphantastic poet, even if I say so myself. Northern Writers’ Award winner & co-host of York poetry night, Rise Up! Recent words in Rialto Poetry, Oxford Poetry, The London Magazine & PN Review. Also: https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/nicky-kippax/
@abridgedmagazine.bsky.social
Poetry / Art Magazine Edited by Susanna Galbraith and Gregory McCartney. Abridged since 2004. A Derry Magazine. www.abridged.zone
@joclement.co.uk
Poetry, Print & People 🌈 🦉 Northern Writers Award Winner 🐕 Managing Editor Butcher's Dog 🍎 Lecturer in Creative Writing 📚 Poetry Book Society Selector 📖 Outlandish (Bloodaxe) Proper Working Class Northerner 💪 Gypsy, Roma, Traveller 🐴 Sometime dodo 🦤
@talesfromaspace.bsky.social
Seaside living writer & creative type, published in numerous anthologies. Reader & co-editor of @theforge.bsky.social literary magazine. Loves arts, landscape, books & crafts.
@janerusbridge.bsky.social
Writer - mostly novels (Bloomsbury), some short stories, a little poetry. Experimenting with non-fiction. Read a lot. Love research. Spent many years in education, teaching preschool to post-grad. Usually found somewhere outside.
@glenhswilsonpoet.bsky.social
Disciple/Husband/ Father/Poet /Lead Worshipper. Winner Seamus Heaney award for New Writing 2017 Poetry Collection #AnExperienceOnTheTongue out now @doirepress
@nicreineke.bsky.social
Amazon Best Selling Author, 40 patents, maker of things. Currently posting The Penguin Games novel, one line at a time. Full novel copyright Nicole Reineke 2024 All rights reserved. Like what you see? Buy now: https://a.co/d/dlwl7xQ