@thefridaypoem.bsky.social
Every Friday we post a review or a feature on the website and on Substack, and send it to subscribers. 1796 subscribers, 7300 post reads in November.
@jamiewoods77.bsky.social
Poet, indie punk, optimistic rebel. Buy my book, read my poems etc etc: https://linktr.ee/jamiewoods77
@glynedwards.bsky.social
In Orbit - Seren Books PhD researcher - ecopoetry - Bangor Uni Writer in Res - North Wales Wildlife Trust
@corinnaboard.bsky.social
EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her. https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
@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
@rorywaterman.bsky.social
Poet, writer, academic, leader of AHRC Lincolnshire Folk Tales project (2024-5). New poetry collection COME HERE TO THIS GATE (Carcanet, 2024). Co-editor of New Walk Editions. Views yours; likes/RTs=marriage proposals. OTBC🔰/COYP
@helenmort.bsky.social
Poet, author, Sheffield-er. Mountaineering literature specialist, running enthusiast, part time Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.
@ninearchespress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of contemporary poetry since 2008, home of Under the Radar magazine. Made in the Midlands.
@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/
@ninaparmenter.bsky.social
Poet, performer, wage slave, dog slave, mum. Has somehow been put in charge of Trowbridge Poetry Stanza. Collection ‘Split, Twist, Apocalypse’, Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2022.
@maureenjivani.bsky.social
Poet published by Mulfran Press Bibliophile Art dabbler photographer
@hannahcopley.bsky.social
Writer and SL in Creative Writing at Uni of Westminster. Author of Speculum (Broken Sleep Books, 2021) and Lapwing (Pavilion Poetry, 2024). 2nd in the Laurel Prize 2024 . Shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize 2024. Hosts poetry nights at the Soho Poly.
@arachnepress.bsky.social
Small independent, inclusive, award-winning UK publishing house. Mostly poetry and short fiction, with the occasional fantasy/sci-fi novel. Prioritising LGBTQ+, Global Majority, Disabled, geographically isolated and Older Women writers.
@nblascsok.bsky.social
Manchester City Poet (2025), debut pamphlet, Broken Sleep Books (2022)
@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.
@lizpoet.bsky.social
I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Assistance Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
@vervepoetrypress.bsky.social
Prize-winning #Brum based poetry indie making high octane collections and vervey pamphlets. Related to @Vervepoetryfest (did you guess?) 😍 https://vervepoetrypress.com
@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social
Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨Back in 2026✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨ https://vervepoetryfestival.com
@alexcitronella.bsky.social
Reader, writer, poet, editor, history addict, old films buff, middle-aged fury, citrusy.
@hedgehogpress.co.uk
Hedgehog is a teeny one-man-band of a poetry press nobody knows about - shhh! www.hedgehogpress.co.uk
@cglauder.bsky.social
Poet, freelance editor, ex-pat, "The Aesthetics of Breath" (V.Press, 2019), "Year of the Rat" (Blueprint Poetry Press, 2025), www.charleslauderjr.com
@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
@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.
@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.
@elcurwen.bsky.social
Poet, broadcaster, journalist, ex-BBC presenter, sailor, sea-swimmer.
@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
@estelleprice.bsky.social
A poet for 10 years. Still love words. I’ve won a few things - 2024 Save as Writers Competition, 2023 Welshpool Poetry Competition & Mairtín Crawford Award, 2021 Welsh Poetry Competition. In 2022 I was published by Nine Arches in Primers 6.
@sophiaargyris.bsky.social
Poet. Poems published in the Interpreter's House, Mslexia, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Under the Radar. Placed in the Verve 2024, shortlisted Live Canon comp. Pamphlet 'Heronless' forthcoming in 2025.
@nessowen.bsky.social
Poet, lecturer,Cymraes. Books-Moon Jellyfish Can Barely Swim #ParthianBooks Mamiaith #ArachnePress-co-editor of A470 Cerddi'r Ffordd/Poems for the road +Afonydd- Rivers. Winner #Greenpeace 's #PoemforthePlanet 2022 #YnysMon New collectionNaming the Trees 🏴
@blossoms21.bsky.social
Hello, I’m a poet and photographer inspired by landscapes and human relationships shortlisted for Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the year 2023 my books are available here pennysharman.co.uk
@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
@em-words.bsky.social
She/her. Words in The Forward Book of Poetry, Propel, Mslexia, Strix, Arachne Press & more. Redbubble: MenagerieGray 🌱FTA. Dyspraxia. Foxes.
@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
@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.
@hbpoet.bsky.social
Poet, wildlife photographer. Poems in Poetry Ireland Review, Rialto, Magma, Butcher’s Dog, Alchemy Spoon. More on heidibeck.com
@ledbydonkeys.org
Art, Activism and Accountability https://linktr.ee/ledbydonkeys?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
@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.
@chaucercameron.bsky.social
Poet, poetry, poetry film https://www.poetryfilmlive.com/ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideal-World-Id-Not-Murdered/dp/1916344747