Ruth Padel
Poetry * wildlife * music * India * Greece *
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‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian)
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@newstatesman.com
Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data... Become a subscriber: https://newstatesman.com/subscribe
@calmandfearless.bsky.social
Writer. Loves the spikier bits of the planet. Bath addict. Contributor to Guardian Country Diary. Represented by David Godwin Associates.
@billmckibben.bsky.social
Founder 350.org and Third Act, author The Crucial Years on substack https://billmckibben.substack.com/ Author of 21 books, beginning with The End of Nature
@mfrancispoet.bsky.social
Poet, novelist and professor emeritus in creative writing at Aberystwyth University. Latest novel, Nocturne with Gaslamps out now from Neem Tree Press.
@poetrylondon.bsky.social
London’s Leading Poetry Magazine. Autumn 2023 Issue 106 OUT NOW. https://poetrylondon.co.uk/
@amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow WIP: Old Nows Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
@keggiec.bsky.social
BEASTLY: The Epic 40,000-Year Story of Animals & Us. (Wainwright SL 2023) DADLAND. Costa Biog Award 2016. QUICKSAND TALES. 'a tonic for the tortured and cursed' 2019 keggiecarew.co.uk
@damianbarr.bsky.social
Writer & broadcaster. 🏴 🌈 🖊️📚 🎭 📺 📻 🪴 🐔 🥃 He/Him 📕 The Two Roberts is my new novel (Sept 2025). I’m also curating a show about them for Charleston. 📕 Maggie & Me. 📕 You Will Be Safe Here. 📺 Big Scottish Book Club on BBC iPlayer. PhD, FRSL, FRSE.
@hedgehoghugh.bsky.social
Author of nine books so far (not all about hedgehogs), ecologist, photographer - and spokesperson for the British Hedgehog Preservation Society
@severincarrell.bsky.social
Scotland editor for the Guardian. A personal account. Born 319.62ppm. Likes and reposts ≠ approval or endorsements (with thanks to Dr Seuss) I’ll have you know I once played in the second violins for the Edinburgh primary schools orchestra. Just once
@fionaharvey.bsky.social
Environment editor at the Guardian newspaper, full-time environment writer since 2004
@libbybrooks.bsky.social
Guardian Scotland correspondent contact: libby.brooks@theguardian.com extracurricular: books, hills, standing stones, gingerbread, Labradors
@patrickbarkham.bsky.social
Guardian Natural History Writer, author of The Swimmer – the Wild Life of Roger Deakin, Wild Child, Islander, Badgerlands, The Butterfly Isles and a few others. President of Norfolk Wildlife Trust. Special interests: butterflies, trees, restoring nature.
@scottishbirding.bsky.social
The SOC is Scotland's Bird Club. We bring together like-minded individuals with a passion for birds and nature, through a programme of talks, outings and via our renowned journal, 'Scottish Birds'. www.the-soc.org.uk
@jmlockhart.bsky.social
Author of Wild Air & Raptor. Literary Agent: James Lockhart Agency: jameslockhartagency.com
@peterkravitz.bsky.social
Couples, individual & trauma psychotherapist in Edinburgh. Climate grief, poetry relief. Editor: The Picador Book of Contemporary Scottish Fiction. Shakespeare for everything & nothing. (And my Great Aunt Fanny ran The Vegetarian Hotel in the Catskills.)
@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social
When birds thrive, nature thrives, and so do we. We take the pulse of the planet through birds; protecting their habitats & global biodiversity. BirdLife is the largest nature conservation partnership in the world.
@brianjaffa.bsky.social
Edinburgh-based journalist, arts-follower, traveller-around-Scotland. Any views expressed are mine alone. https://www.heraldscotland.com
@caughtbytheriver.bsky.social
Wading around at the confluence of arts / nature / culture since 2007 Regular posts at caughtbytheriver.net 🐟 Irregular printed matter, record releases & events via rivertones.bandcamp.com and our Friday newsletter
@lauracummingart.bsky.social
Art Critic The Observer. Critic of the Year 2024. Thunderclap - Book of 2024, @SaltireBook, Non-Fiction Winner @WritersPrize. On Chapel Sands, The Vanishing Man @ChattoBooks. Rep @pew_literary
@annaframe.bsky.social
Communications Director, @canongate.co.uk. Currently working with Miranda July, Omar El Akkad, Rowe Irvin, Damian Barr, Lily King, John Niven & many other talented folk. Live in Edinburgh, though more often on trains.
@earthpainter.bsky.social
Visual artist, watercolour, printmaking, paint maker, occasional weaver and musician. Passionate about nature, rocks, prehistory, landscape, and a deep love and respect for our home, the Earth. Based in the far west of Cornwall, UK. Please no NFT or DM
@geograph-gbi.bsky.social
Record and share your places! We collect geographically interesting photos of UK and Ireland. Aiming for at least one per 1km OS grid square Moderated, classroom-ready, reusable, geo-located 8 million photos so far http://www.geograph.org.uk/
@irishpages.bsky.social
Biannual journal, edited in Belfast, publishing writing from Ireland and overseas. Publisher of The Irish Pages Press. Edited by Chris Agee and Kathleen Jamie.
@kathleenjamie.bsky.social
Poet, essayist. Author of 'Findings', 'Sightlines', 'Surfacing' and 'Cairn'. Erstwhile National Poet of Scotland. Terrible at art, alas. What else? Today is all low winter sun and jackdaws.
@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
@halenlock.bsky.social
17-year-old author, actor, and musician. “Smoke and Mirrors: A Poetry Chapbook” out everywhere now! “Book of Spells: A Poetry Collection” out 12/19/24 💜
@athenam.bsky.social
Gardening, quilting, reading and using my middle school teacher voice to resist and organize. Blue hair. Blue votes.
@simonmaddrell.bsky.social
Poet, Editor, Educator & Performer. Sixth pamphlet ‘Patient L1’ out Feb 2025. Debut collection with Out-Spoken Press, Feb 2026. https://linkin.bio/simonmaddrell
@jlmmorton.bsky.social
Poet / Writer She / Her / Dr #PoetryReview #Rialto #PBLJ #Magma etc| Winner Geoffrey Dearmer & Laurie Lee Prizes | Highly Commended @forwardprizes | RED HANDED @brokensleepbooks 2024 | LAKE 32 Yew Tree Press 2020 | Chaotic good 💫 |www.jlmmorton.com
@saqibooks.bsky.social
Fiercely independent publisher specialising in the Middle East (Saqi), global fiction (Telegram) and progressive non-fiction (Westbourne Press) www.saqibooks.com
@atriumpoetry.bsky.social
Online poetry mag edited by @clairewalkerpoetry.bsky.social and @hollyannepoet.bsky.social www.atriumpoetry.com
@jdeanknight.bsky.social
Writer of fiction, poetry, plays. Based in York UK, bred in Barnsley. University Governor, Arts Trustee, interested in writing, reading, current affairs, the world, people and communities, the mind, nature, food, wine and song.
@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.
@oliviamcc.bsky.social
Writer | Translator (French) | Dr Creativity, feminism, ecology The Lives of Z (Pavilion Poetry) - out April 2025
@suewriter.bsky.social
Award-winning poet, novelist, art critic. Five poetry collections. Latest God’s Little Artist, poems on Gwen John, Seren. Four novels including Rainsongs (Duckworth), Flatlands (Puskin Press, Mercure de France). Sunday Times list best historical fiction
@alinaetc.bsky.social
poet. writer. editor. reviewer. translator. corrupted bibliomaniac. exists in romanian and alabamian. hybrid in she/her dreams. self-deleting. self-ghosting. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com
@ecotopian.bsky.social
Poet, scholar, environmental humanist • Author of The Milk Hours (Milkweed, 2019), Winter, Glossolalia (Black Spring, 2022), and Extinction Song (Tupelo, 2026) • Following the X-odus.
@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
@kathyfish.bsky.social
Ploughshares | Best American Nonreq'd | Copper Nickel Editors' Prize | The Norton Reader | ElectricLit | Flash Fiction America | Swamp Pink (fmrly Crazyhorse) | Wigleaf | The Art of Flash Fiction https://artofflashfiction.substack.com
@lucyrebeccaholme.bsky.social
Writer | Work in The Stinging Fly, Banshee & more | Shortlisted | Brotherton Prize & Mairtín Crawford Award ‘24 |🥇Cúirt New Writing Award & Southword Editor’s Prize ‘24 | 𝕋𝕖𝕞𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕣𝕪 𝕊𝕥𝕒𝕤𝕚𝕤 & 𝔹𝕝𝕦𝕖 𝔻𝕚𝕒𝕘𝕠𝕟𝕒𝕝𝕤 | Broken Sleep Books
@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
@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
@nathanael73.bsky.social
Irish-Australian poet. TERMINALS, SEPARATION BLUES: POEMS 1994-2024, DUBLIN WANDERING, LANDMARKS & 13 other books. Best of the Net nominee. Creative writing professor. Poetry editor for Antipodes. Husband, father, immigrant, runner, music-lover. 🇦🇺 🇮🇪
@eoinflannery.bsky.social
Associate Professor of English Literature at @micireland.bsky.social Poems @inkfishmagazine.bsky.social, @the-engine-idling.bsky.social, @hogriverpress.bsky.social @ogre.red, @juniperpoetry.bsky.social, @librelit.bsky.social, and elsewhere.
@cmdoet.bsky.social
Poetry ✒️ Nature 🍄 Cannock Chase 🌳 'September' & 'The Taste of Rain' from Offa's Press 🍂 🌧️