Max Wallis
📚 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.
@mosababutoha.bsky.social
Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
@brendashaughnessy.bsky.social
Poet, friend. Wrote TANYA (Knopf 2023) The Octopus Museum (Knopf 2019) So Much Synth (2016 CCP) Our Andromeda (2012 CCP) Human Dark w/ Sugar (2008 CCP) Interior with Sudden Joy (1999 FSG). In UK—Liquid Flesh: New & Selected Poems (2022 Bloodaxe.)
@dseuss.bsky.social
Author of Modern Poetry, frank: sonnets, Still Life w Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four-Legged Girl, all from Graywolf Press, and Wolf Lake, White Gown Blown Open (Univ. of Massachusetts Press), Chancellor for Academy of American Poets.
@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 🦤
@pacificraft.bsky.social
Socially inept but likes to sing in front of strangers. Wow published by THWUP in NZ http://teherengawakapress.co.nz/wow/ & Carcanet in the UK. Toitū Te Tiriti!
@amykey.bsky.social
Writer - Arrangements in Blue, Isn't Forever, Luxe. My substack is So Glad I'm Me https://amykey.substack.com/
@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.
@mayacpopa.bsky.social
Cheerleader for other poets' poems | Founder of Conscious Writers Collective | Writes the Substack newsletter Poetry Today
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@carrieetter.bsky.social
Poet and novelist, latest Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) | Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at U of Bristol | Grief, trauma, and the environment | All the 🐈⬛! | Foodie | Dem 🇺🇸 expat in Bristol, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@jlimburg.bsky.social
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
@jesstraynor.bsky.social
Poetry and other bits of writing | Pit Lullabies with Bloodaxe Books and The Quick and Liffey Swim with Dedalus Press | Essays in Tolka, The Stinging Fly and The Dublin Review | Poetry editor at Banshee | New Arcana forthcoming Sept 25 from Bloodaxe Books.
@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
@andresordorica.com
Writer & Poet Based in Edinburgh. Proudly Queer and Latinx. 🏳️🌈🇲🇽 Author of HOW WE NAMED THE STARS (2024), AT LEAST THIS I KNOW (2022), and HOLY BOYS (2025) Top 10 Debut Novelist of 2024 The Observer UK. https://andresnordorica.substack.com/
@rebeccatamas.bsky.social
🌿 Poet & nonfiction writer. ‘Strangers: Essays on the Human & Nonhuman’ w/Makina Books. 'WITCH' w/Penned in the Margins. (https://makinabooks.com/product/strangers/)
@julianday.ca
Poet, gamedev (Shadow of the Wyrm), pixel artist, composer. Editor/publisher, null pointer press. Chapbooks: Late Summer Flowers (Anstruther Press), Orbits (Model Press). he/him Website: julianday.ca Fedi: @juliancday@writing.exchange ngl: ngl.link/jcd559
@ianduhig.bsky.social
'An Arbitrary Light Bulb' the Poetry Book Society Winter 2024 Choice: "some of the most moving, restrained, memorable and technically adroit poetry of our times" --- TLS, 3/25
@joedunthorne.bsky.social
Poet and novelist. New book, Children of Radium, my first nonfiction, out now. Order here: https://linktr.ee/joedunthorne Old books: Submarine/Wild Abandon/The Adulterants/O Positive www.joedunthorne.com
@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
@victoriachang.bsky.social
Poet and writer. Avid reader. Bourne Chair of Poetry at Georgia Tech and Director of Poetry@Tech.
@godzillakent.bsky.social
Working Class Poet/Writer | Publisher of @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social | The Working Classic (2023, the87press) | Awen Medal | Stroke Survivor | he/him | Agent: Kate Rizzo (Greene & Heaton)
@concordmoose.bsky.social
Disabled Poets Prize 2024 ‘Nowhere Near As Safe As A Snake In Bed’ https://bit.ly/3X1A8aQ ‘Skin the Rabbit’ out @The Braag 26/3/25. Writes about rivers, absurdity & time +Arts Council £. Half poet, half tutor, half clown. Sheffield. www.susiewilsonpoet.com
@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/
@notjustdancing.bsky.social
Poet, editor, critic https://liverpooluniversitypress.blog/tag/pavilion-poetry/ https://www.serenbooks.com/seren-author/deryn-rees-jones/
@poetclare.bsky.social
Novelist. Poet. Reader. 🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, etc. ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS coming 2025. Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
@carolinebirduk.bsky.social
Poet & playwright. 7th poetry collection, Ambush at Still Lake, out from Carcanet: https://shorturl.at/JXYCR. Winner of Forward Prize for Best Collection 2020 www.carolinebird.co.uk
@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.
@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.
@wendypratt.bsky.social
Author: The Ghost Lake Poet: Blackbird Singing at Dusk Editor: Spelt Magazine https://linktr.ee/wendypratt
@marcellenewbold.bsky.social
Poet- place and inheritance, Cardiff Wales Bridport shortlist, Best of Net & Pushcart nom. Poems: Poetry Wales, Propel, IS&T, Iamb, Atrium, Fly on the Wall, Black Bough, Broken Spine, Ice Floe… Architect | Editor | Tutor https://linktr.ee/marcellenewbold
@clmerrill.bsky.social
Poet, writer, translator, and director of the International Writing Program. My views, not those of the University of Iowa.
@niiayikwei.bsky.social
Ga-speaking father. Happyfied self-hypnotist. Daydreamer, writer, editor, idea whisperer. Bylines: Guardian, Nat Geo, Vice, Financial Times, Condé Nast Traveller | Writes for kids as K.P. Kojo https://t.co/V3GydO5tbs #BookSky #BlackSky #GhanaSky #Poet
@katyevansbush.bsky.social
Poet, blogger, freelance editor, UK. I mean there's a lot more obviously. Politics, movies, silly jokes, knitting, the end of the world, etc. My latest book is Joe Hill Makes His Way into the Castle (CB Editions) & I write at katyevansbush.substack.com
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Uni 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk https://linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@corinnaboard.bsky.social
EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her. https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
@jaygao.bsky.social
Poet: Imperium (Carcanet, 2022). PhDing at Columbia. https://www.jay-gao.com
@ellafrears.bsky.social
Poet etc. Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
@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
@janeburn.bsky.social
Poet, Writer, Artist, Maker. Person with Autism. Person with a hEDS. Kindness is so very important. Bios are difficult! I do much writing on https://burnj.substack.com/
@pdevonald.bsky.social
Multi award-winning poet/screenwriter | Winner Broken Spine's Reader’s Choice Award 2025 | Winner Loft Books Poetry 2024 | Second Shelley Memorial 2024 | Winner FofHCS, HoH, BoN nomx2, Forward Prize nom | Winner HoH, Waltham Forest | Children's Bafta nom