The Poetry Archive
With over 2000 free poems, 500 poets’ work and 5 million visitors a year, the Poetry Archive represents a rich diversity of both poets and poetry.
@asls.org.uk
Educational charity promoting the reading, writing, teaching & study of Scotland's literature & languages, past & present. https://asls.org.uk
@playwritinguk.bsky.social
Top resource for playwrights in the UK. Jobs, opportunities, competitions, prizes & more. Maintained by @thisalitaylor.bsky.social Join FB group: https://bit.ly/3TpKWeG
@omarsakr.bsky.social
Queer Muslim, Arab-Turkish Baba. Author of four poetry collections and a novel. Now: The Nightmare Sequence (UQP, 2025). Greens candidate for Blaxland. https://linktr.ee/OmarjSakr
@lucymercer.bsky.social
writer, Emblem (Prototype) & Afterlife forthcoming from Fitzcarraldo;🕯️
@ruthpadel.bsky.social
Poetry * wildlife * music * India * Greece * New 📗 GIRL - ‘Dazzling lyric control’ (Kim Moore) ‘Rhapsodic’(Guardian) 'Crafted for deep engagement: girls from Delphi to Delhi haunted by the ‘loose tin can’ of misogyny.…' (Mid-Day Mumbai) Www.ruthpadel.com
@richardnskinner.bsky.social
Writer working across fiction, life writing, essays, non-fiction & poetry. Director @FaberAcademy • Founder #VanguardEditions • Editor #14magazine. Most recent publication: ‘White Noise Machine’ (Salt, 2023).
@suefinch.bsky.social
Poet. Coach. #ElasticBandPhotos. Loves coasts, peculiar things and the scent of ice-cream freezers. ‘Magnifying Glass’ and ‘Welcome to the Museum of a Life’ published by Black Eyes Publishing UK. https://suefinch.co.uk/
@katefoxwriter75.bsky.social
Stand-up poet. Radio 4’s The Verb regular. Northern, neurodivergent writer of Northernness and Neurodivergence. “On Sycamore Gap” & “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” (Harper North). “Bigger on the Inside” (Smokestack).
@edepaor.bsky.social
She/Her. Dublin. O.T. PhD Student: School to Adult Life Transition:views of young adults with intellectual disabilities & families. Interests:Health/Social Care, Social Justice, Universal Design, Choir, Gaeilge...but mainly Poetry https://linktr.ee/edepaor
@cbeditions.bsky.social
Writer and publisher (CB editions, 2007 to now: www.cbeditions.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
@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/
@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
@clareshawpoet.bsky.social
Poet. I love moss, mudlarking and broken things. Proud to be Northern, non-binary and neurodivergent.
@corinnaboard.bsky.social
EAL teacher. Tree lover. Likes to write poems. She/her. https://linktr.ee/parole_de_reveuse
@michaelpedersen.bsky.social
Maker of Books / Edinburgh Makar (Poet Laureate) / Writer in Residence at Edinburgh Uni 💜📚💫 www.michaelpedersen.co.uk https://linktr.ee/muckleflugga
@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
@clmerrill.bsky.social
Poet, writer, translator, and director of the International Writing Program. My views, not those of the University of Iowa.
@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
@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.
@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
@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
@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
@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/
@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
@jlimburg.bsky.social
Writer, poet, creative writing lecturer, autistic, Jewish, likes cats. Latest book Letters to my Weird Sisters: on Autism, Feminism and Motherhood.
@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 Bath, UK | Insta: https://www.instagram.com/carrie__etter
@erinwriter.bsky.social
Copper Canyon poet (new book coming 2026), professor, Girl Scout from Omaha. She/her 🇺🇦
@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.
@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!
@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.)
@mosababutoha.bsky.social
Palestinian poet from Gaza. Author of Forest of Noise & Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear.
@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
The other one. Poet & NYT bestselling author. Next 📚: DEAR WRITER (April 2025), THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT (Sept 2025), A SUIT OR A SUITCASE (March 2026).
@joriegraham.bsky.social
Resilience requires Imagination. Resistance requires Imagination. Recent book“To 2040”,’23(Laurel Prize for Ecological Writing) Carcanet (UK) Copper Canyon (US). “The Dream of The Unified Field”(Pulitzer Prize for Poetry).“[To]The Last [Be] Human”,’22.
@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.
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@amykey.bsky.social
Writer - Arrangements in Blue, Isn't Forever, Luxe. My substack is So Glad I'm Me https://amykey.substack.com/
@janeyeh3.bsky.social
Writer (DISCIPLINE, THE NINJAS, and MARABOU) & lecturer in London 🌷 Instagram: @janeyeh3 🌷 she/her 🌷 www.janeyeh3.com
@waidner.bsky.social
Novelist. They. COREY FAH DOES SOCIAL MOBILITY (UK: Hamish Hamilton, 2023; US: Graywolf Press, 2024). STERLING KARAT GOLD (2021). Winner, Goldsmiths Prize.
@alicefrecknall.bsky.social
Poet, short fiction writer & fine artist. Poetry collection: Somewhere Something is Burning (Out-Spoken Press). linktr.ee/alicefrecknall
@vervepoetryfest.bsky.social
Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ✨Back in 2026✨#Brum and online✨ Online Multi-press Poetry-only Bookshop @vervepoetryshop✨ https://vervepoetryfestival.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
@janeydarling1.bsky.social
Swearer. Art. Literature. Music. Nature. Lefty. Yorkshire by birth. London by choice. I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour, drinking milk shakes cold and long. Smiling and waving and looking so fine. Don't think you knew you were in this song.